Africa

No fewer than 1.3 billion people are multidimensionally poor across 109 countries, while differences in multidimensional poverty among ethnic groups...

DOUALA, Cameroon  Five civilians were killed when Boko Haram terrorists Wednesday night attacked a village in Cameroon's far north, security...

JOHANNESBURG  Thousands of South African workers marched across the country Thursday protesting against corruption, retrenchments, and high levels of unemployment....

KANO, Nigeria  The Nigerian Communications Commission said the country's ban on the ownership of SIM cards by those under 18...

NAIROBI, Kenya Kenya’s tourism industry is improving as a new coronavirus normal sets in, but travel advisories are affecting the...

HARARE, Zimbabwe  Like many economically pummeled families in Zimbabwe, 41-year-old Melinda Gambiza, her husband, and their four school-going children have...

KAMPALA, Uganda  When Uganda was grappling with an aggressive second surge of COVID-19 cases a few weeks ago, one of...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday discussed, by telephone, the readiness to resume peace...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, turned 90 on...

Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish...