Africa

Tens of thousands of people in the far north of Mozambique are bracing for violent flooding as torrential rain pushes...

The battle for the capital has all but wrecked UN-backed efforts for a peace deal between the rival factions and...

Sudanese protesters on Sunday welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers who agreed to form a joint civilian-military council,...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says former British colonies such as Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa are still battling with the...

Pope Francis called on Sunday for the evacuation of refugees held in detention camps in Libya as fighting there escalates.

Officials in Mozambique say serious flooding has begun in the north of the country following Cyclone Kenneth which hit the...

China's investment strategy of throwing money at developing countries appears to have hit a snag in the Republic of Congo...

Thousands of people in remote areas of storm-lashed Mozambique were homeless Saturday and bracing for imminent flooding, food and water...

A US air strike killed three fighters from the Islamic State in the Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Friday, a...

Abassi Madani, founder of Algeria's banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), will be buried in the capital Algiers on Saturday days...

Migrants spoke out on Friday about the fierce attack on Qasr Ben Gashir detention centre, saying they were hit with...

South Africans living in Kenya have started voting at polling stations in the capital Nairobi for this year's national elections.

International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has thanked local and international donors who have contributed aid to the victims of the...

Cyclone Kenneth killed at least one person and left a trail of destruction in northern Mozambique, destroying houses, ripping up...

A Moroccan air force helicopter crashed Friday in the disputed Western Sahara, killing two crew members, state news agency MAP...

Migrants and refugees have been shot and wounded in a detention centre south of Tripoli as Libyan fighters battle for...

Thousands of Sudanese protesters performed the weekly Muslim prayers outside army headquarters on Friday, a day after vast crowd of...

A powerful cyclone smashed into northern Mozambique, leaving one person dead on Friday, barely a month after a super-storm slammed...

Sudan could face a counter coup if military rulers and the opposition do not reach agreement on a handover of...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said they arrested 11 suspects Thursday in the murder last week of a...