The cost of keeping a Nigerian presidential jet at a London airport while President Muhammadu Buhari is in Britain on...

Somali teenager Abdulaziz Ahmad hunkered down in the sand dunes outside Calais, once again plotting how to reach Britain.

Rescue workers recovered the bodies of five migrants on Wednesday who had drowned in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to...

Chad's president, Idriss Deby, an important Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants.

Mozambique did not adequately show where at least $500 million out of $2 billion in loans meant for state companies...

An earthquake has struck Mozambique about 50 kilometres northwest of its second biggest city, Beira.  

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has extended and expanded its arms embargo, asset freeze and travel ban on the Democratic...

Unidentified gunmen killed four guests at a Mali luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside the capital Bamako, and...

Gunmen on Sunday attacked a luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside Mali's capital, Bamako, killing two people.

Conducting his weekly Angelus prayer from the window of the papal apartments overlooking St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis urged the...

Madagascar president Hery Rajaonarimampianina said on Wednesday that the government did not plan to go through with planned changes to...

An often fiery government critic, Egyptian journalist Khaled al-Balshi has been arrested, had his operations monitored, and staff harassed by...

Nigeria's acting president will sign the 2017 budget into law later on Monday, one of his aides told Reuters, as...

Eleven people were killed and 930 prisoners escaped on Sunday when unidentified assailants stormed a jail in DRC north eastern...

Militant insurgency Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attack on Nigeria's north eastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night...

Lesotho's Mothetjoa Metsing has called for a national unity government, saying a broader coalition deal would ensure stability after last...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to fly home from London and arrive back in the country on Saturday, two...

Nigeria's army is investigating alleged misconduct by soldiers providing security at a camp for people who fled an insurgency, says...

Personnel assigned to the US Mission in Egypt are prohibited from visiting religious sites outside greater Cairo until further notice.

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert this week after their truck broke down in arid...