Senegal is well known for its musical heritage and sporting successes - but less well known is a very unusual,...

The dead bodies of four out of eight missing miners have been found at a zinc mine owned by Trevali...

US sportswear maker Nike has not renewed agreements with its largest franchisee in Russia, the Vedomosti daily reported on Wednesday,...

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on Wednesday by video with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who is...

While Kenya’s economy grew by 7.5% last year, the majority of Kenyans say that growth is yet to trickle down...

The African Union (AU) is calling for the creation of a Pan-African credit agency. The Chair of the AU, Senegalese...

Germany has ordered 40 000 doses of Bavarian Nordic's Imvanex smallpox vaccine to be ready to carry out ring vaccinations...

Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus and belongs to the Poxviridae family. In...

Extreme temperatures, intense desert sun and high altitudes give grapes grown in Chile's Atacama Desert a thick skin, which indigenous farmers from...

Rwanda said on Monday it had requested a regional body to investigate shelling of its territory by the military of...

A Russian diplomat at the country's permanent mission at the United Nations in Geneva said on Monday he was leaving...

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy entered pleas of not guilty to nine charges of sexual assault against six women on...

Tennis player Naomi Osaka said on Monday she was not sure if she would play on grass this season, after...

Five people were killed when a 10-storey building in Iran's southern city of Abadan partly collapsed and rescuers were trying...

Russian troops bombarded a riverside city on Friday in what appeared to herald a major assault to seize the last...

Equatorial Guinea's ailing economy has been dented by the pandemic and a series of deadly dynamite explosions in 2021 despite...

The World Health Organisation was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox,...

The UK Deputy Prime Minister has said hundreds of migrants could be flown from the UK to Rwanda each year...

The European health regulator on Thursday endorsed the use of AstraZeneca's AZN.L COVID vaccine, Vaxzevria, as a booster.

Jordan's King Abdullah said on Thursday he was restricting the movements of his estranged half brother Prince Hamza and curtailing...