Voters in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau cast their ballots Sunday to pick a new president, hoping to turn the page on endemic political turmoil despite the main opposition party being barred from the race...
Gunmen from a criminal gang kidnapped 25 people and killed a staff member in an early morning raid on a northwestern Nigerian girls鈥� secondary school on Monday, police said.
More than half of Sudan鈥檚 population is in need of humanitarian aid, the head of the Danish Refugee Council told AFP, as fighting ravages the northeast African nation.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 paramilitary group signed a new framework for peace on Saturday at a ceremony in Qatar aimed at ending fighting that has devastated eastern DRC.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Friday called for a ceasefire in war-ravaged Sudan in a call with the United Arab Emirates, which has faced wide accusations of funding paramilitary fighters.
More than 500 economists and other leading experts, including a Nobel laureate and a former United States treasury secretary, on Friday urged G20 leaders to聽establish an international panel to tackle聽extreme wealth disparities.
At about 10 o鈥檆lock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar鈥檚 turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms 鈥� a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work...
Residents of the southern Sudanese city of El-Obeid have said they are living in fear as paramilitaries appear to prepare for an assault, with the army reporting shooting down a drone targeting the city on Saturday...
Tanzania charged more than 200 people with treason, a lawyer and judicial sources told AFP, with the opposition saying Saturday yet another of their leaders had been arrested...
Tanzanian rights groups condemned on Friday widespread reports of 鈥榬eprisal killings鈥� of civilians, some in their own homes, in post-election violence that the opposition say killed hundreds.
Tanzania鈥檚 main opposition party said its vice-chairman had been charged with terrorism, days after post-election violence shook the country with reports of potentially hundreds dead...
