Africa

ALGIERS, Algeria Algeria announced Sunday that local elections will be held on Nov. 27, one year earlier than originally scheduled....

Botswana now expects economic growth of 9.7 per cent in 2021, compared with the 8.8 per cent forecast in February,...

Folasade Oluwafemiayo increased Team Nigeria’s medals haul at the ongoing 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, on Monday, by winning the gold...

Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, has pledged to establish a sister city agreement...

Southern Africa country still contending with enforced disappearances four decades after gaining independence from colonial rule NKAYI, Zimbabwe In 1983,...

KAMPALA, Uganda A suspected suicide bomber who was planning to target the funeral of a top army commander was arrested...

Militants linked to Oromo Liberation Front–Shene group suspected in massacre ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia A total of 150 civilians were massacred...

KIGALI, Rwanda Guinea-Bissau government said Friday it had extended the state of calamity for 15 days with a curfew throughout...

KAMPALA, Uganda  Uganda’s recent move to ban 54 NGOs is the latest government action to undermine and harass the country’s...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the United Nations to step in and take control of parts of...