Africa

DAKAR, Senegal Niger replaced on Wednesday the names of streets and public squares inherited from the French colonial era with...

NAIROBI, Kenya  South Korea donated 21,000 tons of rice, worth $14.2 million, to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in...

BAMAKO, Mali Pan-African activist Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, popularly known as Kemi Seba, has been arrested in France, judicial...

KANO, Nigeria At least 90 people were killed and 50 others injured when a truck carrying fuel exploded in northwestern...

JOHANNESBURG Two people were killed and five others injured in Guinea over the weekend during clashes with police as villagers...

For decades, Rwandan authorities have subjected detainees, in both official and unofficial detention facilities, to ill-treatment and torture, with no accountability, Human...

NAIROBI, Kenya  Kenya recorded its first fatality from mpox as the country grapples with a regional outbreak that has affected...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has elected Cape Verde’s Justice Ricardo Gonçalves as its new president. It also elected Sierra...

KAMPALA, Uganda Uganda and a Turkish company signed a deal on Monday to construct a 272-kilometer railway, marking a significant...

The federal government has urged Nigerians living in China to continue promoting the country’s cultural heritage to foster nation-building. The...