Nouakchott: Mauritanians began voting Saturday to decide whether to re-elect President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as head of the vast desert state,...
Nouakchott: Mauritanians began voting Saturday to decide whether to re-elect President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as head of the vast desert state,...
Kanyabayonga, DR Congo:Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic town in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, a local official told AFP...
Nairobi: The death toll from protests in Kenya has climbed to 13, an official from the main doctors' association told AFP Wednesday, after...
Nairobi: Kenya's President William Ruto vowed to take a tough line against "violence and anarchy" on Tuesday, after protests against his government's proposed...
Port-au-Prince: Kenyan police arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday on a long-awaited mission to help wrest the Caribbean nation from powerful gangs, just...
Kenyan police shot dead one protester near parliament Tuesday, a rights group said, with AFP journalists seeing three people lying motionless on the...
Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse young protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, AFP reporters saw, escalating...
Nairobi: Growing up in a shanty town in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Sarah Njoroge saw her parents ban her older siblings from taking part...
Tripoli: Head of the Libyan Government of National Unity Abdul Hamid Al Dbeiba met on Sunday with the US Special Envoy to Libya,...
Nairobi: Kenya's President William Ruto said he was ready for "a conversation" with thousands of young protesters who held nationwide demonstrations this week...
Algiers: Ibtissem Mahtout and Amira Messous pick fresh strawberries and tomatoes on the eco-friendly smallholding the two women are working near Algiers, a...
Niamey, Niger: Armed "bandits" killed one person and kidnapped five others in a raid on convoy carrying a regional official in northern Niger,...
Nairobi: A 21-year-old man has died after being hit by a tear gas canister during protests in Kenya this week, a human rights...
Tunis: A pilot was killed on Friday in a military helicopter crash during a landing maneuver at the air base near the city...
Johannesburg: A U.S. tourist was killed by an elephant in the Zambian city of Livingstone Wednesday - in the second such attack in...
Juba, South Sudan: South Sudan ’s vice president said Thursday that peace talks in neighboring Kenya have failed to acknowledge the country's peace...
Nairobi: Thousands of mostly young demonstrators took to the streets across Kenya on Thursday to protest tax hikes, blowing whistles and chanting slogans...
Port Sudan: The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of...