South Africans along with former U.S. President Barack Obama were marking the centennial of Nelson Mandela’s birth on Wednesday with acts of charity in a country...
Egypt’s parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Under the...
Two large explosions followed by gunfire have been heard near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital. The blasts come a week after a similar attack on...
Egypt’s official statistics agency says annual inflation increased to 13.8 percent in June after a new round of austerity measures designed to overhaul the country’s economy....
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday, a day after he agreed with neighbor Eritrea to end a near...
Ethiopia’s attorney general has fired several senior prison officials, saying they failed to respect prisoners’ human rights. Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye’s announcement of the dismissals and...
The Libyan coastguard has rescued 125 people and recovered six bodies after their boat sank east of Tripoli, the latest in a spike of migrant drownings...
The UN envoy for Yemen said Wednesday he had held “fruitful” talks with rebel leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi in his bid to avert all-out fighting for the...
Islamist-backed candidate Souad Abderrahim defeated a city official who served under ousted despot Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday to become the first woman mayor...
A US hunter has come under criticism after pictures taken in South Africa of her posing with a dead giraffe went viral. Images of the woman,...
A Yemeni prosecutor says 46 detainees have been released from one of several prisons controlled by the United Arab Emiratis in southern Yemen where AP reporting...