US defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both called for a swift ceasefire in Yemen. Mr Mattis said the US wanted...
Ethiopia Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time, further increasing female representation in the government of Africa’s second...
The United Nations says strong winds and heavy rain from cyclone Luban have injured 33 people and affected 2,000 families in war-ravaged Yemen. The U.N. released...
At least 40 people have been killed after a bus traveling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road, police...
Egypt says its security forces have killed 10 militants in a shootout in the city of el-Arish in the turbulent northern Sinai Peninsula. A statement Tuesday...
Egyptian security forces pressing a campaign against Islamist militants have killed 52 suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula in operations in which three soldiers also died,...
The self-styled Libyan National Army says its troops have captured a prominent militant wanted in neighboring Egypt. In a statement posted on its Facebook page Monday,...
The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle between U.S. and...
Libya has closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets were fired in its direction, officials said Tuesday, days after flights had...
Ethiopian authorities arrested more than 1,200 people after violence erupted in and around the capital this month, a senior police official said, three times more than...
Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram militants to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources told AFP Tuesday. Dozens of...