By Fidel Amakye Owusu Diplomacy, in its ideal form, is a subtle art of calibrated language and mutual respect. The recent exchange between Abuja and Washington...
By Yannick Lefang In the 21st-century information age, controlling the narrative is as valuable as controlling natural resources. As African nations strive for economic sovereignty and...
Ghana qualified for the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations after edging past Tunisia 2-1, following extra-time. Black Stars captain John Mensah put his side...
African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping. PHOTO/File Following a deadlock during Monday’s African Union (AU) elections, with a tie between former wife to South African president...
Plans by South Sudan to build an alternative pipeline through Kenya are expected to acquire fresh urgency in coming weeks as Juba shops for a route...
A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist...
South Africa on Wednesday pushed its campaign for Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to head the African Union (AU) executive, a key post to be decided...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has announced an immediate drop in the cost of fuel, following a week of strikes after prices doubled. Jonathan said the price...
South Africa President., Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Reuters South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union (AU)...
Nigeria’s trade unions say they are suspending protests for two days to allow more talks with the government. The announcement comes on the fifth day of...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was in crisis talks with union leaders Thursday night in an effort to end a violent nationwide...
Traders in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday started a- three day sit down strike protesting commercial banks’ refusal to lower interest rates on loans given to them....
Swaziland, Lesotho and South Africa. Courtesy of World Sites Atlas (sitesatlas.com) (Bloomberg) –Transnet SOC Ltd., the South African state-owned port and rail-freight operator, and Swaziland Rail...
Ghana President., John Atta Mills (Reuters) – Ghanian President John Atta Mills on Monday said he was confident of winning a second four-year term this year...
Guinea-Bissau’s president Malam Bacai Sanhá. PHOTO/Roosewelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil President Malam Bacai Sanhá, who took power of the tiny West African nation Guinea-Bissau about two...
Nigeria President., Goodluck Jonathan. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with Nigerians on Saturday to support the removal of fuel subsidies and pledged to cut...
ICC Chief Prosecutor.,Fatou Bensouda. PHOTO/File The newly-elected chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bom Bensouda, has been named ‘Person of the Year’ by...
Gunmen attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a prayer service Thursday night, killing at least eight people and wounding others in an assault that occurred...
A dated photo of the Merowe Dam – then underconstruction The multi-billion dollar Merowe Dam on the Nile River more than doubled Sudan’s electricity supply, but...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/REUTERS South African President Jacob Zuma met Tuesday with an envoy from Libya’s National Transitional Council seeking help from Pretoria in...
Protesters unhappy over spiraling gas prices set fires on an expressway Tuesday and at least one person was killed in the unrest after Nigeria’s government did...
(Reuters) – President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of Nigeria plagued by a violent Islamist insurgency, and ordered shut the...
A blast has rocked an area near a mosque in the restive north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, with witnesses reporting four deaths. In a BBC interview,...
African Union forces in Somalia have successfully pushed the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab out of the capital Mogadishu, a commander told CNN Thursday. The African Union...
(Reuters) – Nigeria lacks competent leaders to tackle its security problems, a former military ruler said on Monday, following Christmas Day bomb attacks on churches by...
A look at recent major attacks in Nigeria attributed to the radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram: December 25: The sect claims responsibility for...
Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed at least 61 people over several days of violence in the nation’s northeast...
A court in Ethiopia convicted two Swedish journalists Wednesday of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group. The...
87 pieces of Ivory seized by Kenyan officials. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Kenya seized 727 pieces of ivory in a container destined for Asia, a customs official...
Environmental Damage caused by past oil spill in Nigeria. PHOTO/File An oil leak has caused a production halt at a Shell facility off Nigeria capable of...
A Somali government minister says 200 troops from Djibouti have arrived in Somalia’s capital to join the African Union (AU) force that helps protect the government...
Congo’s president has been sworn in for another term after an election contested by the country’s main opposition candidate. President Joseph Kabila’s inauguration went ahead Tuesday...
(Reuters) – South Sudan makes its debut for western oil companies, aid organizations and agribusiness this week at a U.S.-backed conference aimed at setting Africa’s newest...
There have been appeals for calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the victory of President Joseph Kabila in disputed elections. Main opposition candidate Etienne...
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia’s seaside capital on Friday, the first visit in years by the U.N.’s top leader to a city...
Kenyan Soldiers in Somalia. FILE Photo Kenya’s Parliament on Wednesday endorsed the government’s decision to allow the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) to join the African Union...
Partial results issued by Congo’s electoral commission overnight make it all but certain that President Joseph Kabila will be declared the winner, setting the stage for...
The spokesman for The Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission said that the body is working to release results of last week’s election before midnight Tuesday...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Eritrea for allegedly providing support to armed groups (including the al-Shabaab group) seeking to destabilize...
Zambia has dismissed an international rights group’s call for the arrest on torture charges of former President George W. Bush, who has been touring Africa to...
Botswana has retained its position as the least corrupt nation in Africa, according to the 2011 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released in Berlin, Germany, by the...
North Sudan’s defense minister faces International Criminal Court (ICC) charges for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the country’s war-torn region of Darfur, the court...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (l) Fatou Bensouda (r) International Criminal Court (ICC) countries agreed to nominate Fatou Bensouda of Gambia, as chief prosecutor for the main war crimes...
A Nigerian oil company says it paid US$147.5 million for a stake in an onshore oil field once owned by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Eni SpA...
Angola’s parliament Tuesday approved a law forcing oil companies to use local banks for all their transactions, the country’s official news agency Angola Press said. Angola...
Nigeria’s Senate voted Tuesday to criminalize gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations in a nation where gays and lesbians already...
Sudan President., Omar al-Bashir PHOTO/REUTERS A court in Nairobi has issued a warrant requiring that President Kibaki’s government arrest and hand over Sudan leader Omar al...
Uganda, Tanzania raise the red flag against Khartoum’s practice of Sharia law, treatment of women. Khartoum’s application to join the East African Community (EAC) was on...
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (pictured), passionately believed his homeland in eastern Nigeria deserved to be its own country, a new nation free of the borders imposed by...
After a campaign marred by violence between government and opposition supporters, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s chief rivals in national elections were expected to hold final...
Ethiopia said Friday it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents. East African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital of...
The old pessimistic paradigm of Africa’s development is outdated, but some valid elements cannot be dismissed if economic growth is to be pursued on the continent,...
(Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s economy is likely to continue its strong recovery next year from a decade of decline, posting GDP growth of 9.4 percent compared with...
Powerful politicians helped form a radical Muslim sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year in Nigeria, authorities allege, but now may have lost control of...
Zambia is among 22 other Sub-Saharan African countries that have seen their Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection rates dropping by 25 percent, a 2011 UN World...
Moammar Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam (pictured), the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large, was captured as he traveled with aides...
As hundreds of Kenyan soldiers hunt al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, university students are growing angry that their government can afford a military operation but not raises...
Nigerian airport officials have fined British Airways (BA) US$135 million and Virgin Atlantic (VAA) US$100 million amid a dispute over ticket prices, the country’s civil aviation...
The government of Ghana intends to pull country out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a final bid to end moves by the agency to...
Kenya’s prime minister is seeking Israel’s support in stopping reprisal terror attacks by an al-Qaida-linked militant group Kenyan troops are pursuing in Somalia. A government statement...
Sidney Nsubuga Enoch (L) the man suspected to have murdered Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato. PHOTO/Daily Monitor/Johnson Mayamba A Ugandan court has sentenced a man...
Africa’s first and only female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow...
Amnesty International has called on Shell to pay US$1 billion to start cleaning up two oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta which it says caused huge...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
Opposition leader says court action “could be the most comprehensive way” of dealing with vote he boycotted. Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change told...
The latest Ease of Doing Business Index found the vast majority of sub-Saharan countries have improved their business environments in the past year, and six made...
Africa’s first elected female president headed toward easy re-election Tuesday with her sole opponent boycotting Liberia’s runoff, and ignoring entreaties from the United States and the...
Nigeria faces a shapeless, shifting threat from a radical Muslim sect that has killed more than 100 people in recent days. While the country boasts one...
Liberia President., Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. AP Photo/FRANCOIS MORI Liberia’s president urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition....
Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies. Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s...
Kenya’s foreign minister summoned Eritrea’s ambassador on Friday and “raised concern” over the possibility that planes from Eritrea are supplying weapons to Somali militants whom Kenyan...
Private security sources tell The Associated Press that pirates have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta and kidnapped the foreign...
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested Monday, the latest in a series of police clampdowns blocking his protest against rising food prices, police said. “He...
Nigeria’s military says it has seized a vessel carrying stolen diesel along a river that flows through the nation’s oil-rich southern delta. Military spokesman Timothy Antigha...
(Reuters) – A federal court in the state of Oklahoma has dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame (pictured), brought by the widows of two...
By the time U.S. military forces left Somalia in 1994 after entering the lawless nation more than a year earlier to stop a famine, 44 Army...
Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL), has implemented a new technological solution to reduce risk and control costs. The solution, based on IBM Maximo asset management software,...
Zimbabwe’s foreign minister is calling for reform of the United Nations Security Council following the “extrajudicial” killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. NATO’s role in Libya...
The United Nations (U.N.) says the number of famine refugees flowing into Kenya slowed to a trickle after Kenyan troops moved into Somalia. The U.N. said...
Somalia’s president on Monday criticized Kenya’s military offensive into his nation to root out Islamist rebels, raising questions about how bilateral the military action is. Kenya...
Witnesses: Second explosion has gone off in Kenya’s capital (Nairobi); AP reporter sees at least 1 dead. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
South Africa’s president says he has suspended the national police chief and fired two Cabinet ministers implicated in graft. In an announcement Monday aired live on...
Foreign military forces have joined the offensive against the
Environmental damage in Nigeria A village in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta has sued Royal Dutch Shell PLC in a U.S. federal court for US$1 billion over...
Dr. Adan Hassan Hillow, center-left, and Dr. Ali Omar Salim, center-right, appear in courtroom. (Photo: The Standard) Kenyan police have arrested a Muslim cleric on a...
One more staff member has died nearly two months after a car bombing hit the U.N.’s headquarters in Nigeria, bringing the death toll to 24, a...
The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military “personnel” being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) will...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the...
The International Criminal Court‘s (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said up to six people will be probed for involvement in post-election atrocities in Ivory Coast (Côte...
North Sudan will go ahead with plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution and strengthen Islamic law, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday, three months...
Zambia’s new president declared himself “allergic to corruption” and said Friday he will investigate alleged abuse of development funds by members of parliament. President Michael Sata...
Three top government officials in Uganda who stepped down from their jobs while facing corruption charges have told a court they are not guilty. Foreign Affairs...
Revolutionary forces captured fighters close to Mutassim Gaddafi, one of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in his father’s home town, but there was no confirmation that...
Authorities say members of a radical Muslim sect attacked a bank in northeast Nigeria, killing one police officer and stealing an undisclosed sum of money. Borno...
Liberians vote in presidential election Africa’s only female president who was just awarded the Nobel Peace prize for helping stabilize this war-torn nation led in unofficial...
A diverse group of young emerging leaders from all across Africa and the diaspora has come together to promote a unified vision for the continent and...
She may have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but even that may not be enough to persuade voters in this nation with 80 percent unemployment...
Voting in Cameroon – Courtesy Getty Images Opposition candidates on Monday alleged widespread fraud and intimidation at polling stations, a day after voters cast ballots in...
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital on Monday after pro-government forces attacked militant positions following what the African Union force said were the deaths of...
Voting in Cameroon’s presidential elections got off to a slow start on Sunday, with polling stations opening late or none at all. Seven of Cameroon’s 20...
Ms. Maathai was cremated in a casket made of bamboo, water hyacinth and papyrus so that no trees would be cut down – Photo: BBC Kenyans...
Zambia’s new president, Michael Sata (pictured), said on Saturday he would not travel to Malawi for a regional summit because his counterpart had failed to apologise...
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu says the country’s governing ANC party is worse than the apartheid regime for delaying...
Authorities in Kenya say they have arrested a security guard in connection with the kidnapping of a disabled Frenchwoman by militants from Somalia. The Frenchwoman was...
Nigeria has marked 51 years of independence in a low-key ceremony, prompted by security fears that followed a series of deadly blasts across Africa’s most populous...
The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has set aside an additional US$ 5 billion to recapitalize the five rescued banks. The injection of the capital...
Police say they detained and freed separatists in Nigeria’s southeast who carried symbols of the failed Republic of Biafra. Ebonyi state police spokesman John Elu said...
Ivory Coast has launched a South African-style truth and reconciliation commission in a bid to heal the wounds of a post-election conflict that left at least...
Zimbabwe will soon probe foreign-owned firms to establish their level of compliance with a law requiring them to sell at least a 51 percent shareholding in...
Opposition supporters attempting to join a march were violently dispersed on Tuesday, and at least four people were killed when paramilitary police seized control of traffic...
A South African arms company has unveiled what it calls the first all-African military plane. Johannesburg-based Paramount Group boss Ivor Ichikowitz, showing reporters the AHRLAC on...
In the crowded slums of Lagos, Nigeria, untreated sewage mingles with the chaotic network of pipes that deliver water to the city. Those who can’t afford...
Michael Sata sworn in as Zambia’s President – REUTERS/Makson Wasamunu Michael Sata, Zambia’s new president, told Chinese companies on Monday that they were welcome to invest...
Prof. Wangari Maathai (pictured), the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded...
Nigerian officials have seized a sizable amount of explosives hidden inside a shipping container from China at one of the West African nation’s major ports, an...
While the West is accusing China of the “re-colonization of Africa”, it is also worth checking out what Western nations and their instituitions are doing on...
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia says challenger Michael Sata (pictured), has defeated the incumbent in presidential elections. Irene Mambilima announced early Friday that...
Senegal’s ruling party said Thursday that it is canceling all political demonstrations, an announcement that comes a day before the nation’s opposition planned to hold a...
Tanzania and China have signed a US$3 billion deal to develop coal and iron ore projects in the southern part of the country in what is...
The latest results from Zambia’s electoral commission show opposition leader Michael Sata leading incumbent President Rupiah Banda 43 to 36 percent, with results in from slightly...
The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia has released early results of the presidential vote that show a challenger in the lead. Irene Mambilima told...
Ugandan police say they have arrested a man who wrote a book criticizing the longtime president and the ruling party. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Tuesday...
President Kagame received President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on his first visit to Rwanda. Three years ago a commission of inquiry set up by Rwanda’s President...
Nigerian authorities are still hunting for the alleged mastermind of last month’s deadly U.N. headquarters bombing. They said Sunday that a 25 million naira ($160,000) reward...
A relative of the slain leader of a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria was shot dead Saturday, only two days after taking part in peace talks...
The Kenya Government will now have the powers to determine the price of essential commodities after President Kibaki (pictured), assented to a law that seeks to...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will open a branch campus in Rwanda next year, making it the first American university to do so in central Africa. The...
A former Nigerian president has urged relatives of a slain radical Muslim sect leader to halt the group’s increasingly bloody attacks against the government, meeting attendees...
A court in Togo has sentenced one of the president’s relatives to 20 years for his role in a 2009 coup plot in the West African...
A weaker Kenya shilling (KES) has eroded the benefit that industries and homes would have had from falling international oil prices with the latest review showing...
LUANDA, Angola — State media say an Angolan air force plane crashed as it took off from a central base, killing 30 people including three generals....
NAIROBI, Kenya — Experts say the government was repeatedly warned about the dangers of people living on top of a petroleum pipeline after an explosion claimed...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Eight suspected members of a radical Muslim sect were charged Tuesday with taking part in bombings and attacks around Nigeria’s capital that killed...
African leaders gave immediate former French president Jacques Chirac (pictured) and his prime minister Dominique de Villepin briefcases full of cash, notably to finance election campaigns,...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
Jos rocked by explosions at packed eatery in the city centre, according to witnesses.
The death toll stands at 158 in Saturday's ferry accident off the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, government officials said.
The United States is sending the first team of diplomats into the Libyan capital since its embassy was shuttered earlier this year, a U.S. State Department...
Activist retired Bishop Desmond Tutu (pictured), said South Africa’s government will “shoot themselves in the foot” if they deny a visa to the Dalai Lama to...
MBABANE, Swaziland — Security forces and protesters clashed in two towns Wednesday during a week of planned protests demanding an end to Swaziland’s absolute monarchy. About...
A pro-democracy campaigner trumped the ruling party candidate on Wednesday in a critical by-election that signals increasing opposition to President Bingu wa Mutharika‘s seven-year rule of...
The Ivory Coast‘s (Cote D’Ivoire) new authorities on Monday named Chelsea striker Didier Drogba (pictured), as a member of a special 11 member commission tasked with...
About 250 vehicles enter country, as Libyan fighters hold talks with tribal leaders to peacefully enter Bani Walid.
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Judges refused on Monday to dismiss a terrorist case against a Nigerian activist charged with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in his homeland...
JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s information minister says the new nation is planning to move its capital from the bustling but crowded city of Juba...
LAGOS, Nigeria — After a Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S. jetliner and a homegrown terror group bombed and killed at will, Nigeria has passed...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 — including a man who officials now say helped organize...
Hague court to decide on whether to confirm cases against six individuals over deadly post-election violence in 2008.
Hague court dismisses plea to halt investigation against six for suspected role in deadly 2007 post-poll violence.
Khamis Gadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in a battle Sunday night with opposition forces, a senior rebel commander told CNN on...
A Nigerian militant group has claimed responsibility after a car loaded with explosives rammed into the United Nations' building in the capital, killing about 20, a...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The U.N. has urged African leaders to "encourage new leadership" in Libya...
KINSHASA, Congo — A judge in eastern Congo says he has sentenced a United Nations driver to three years in prison for attempting to traffic cassiterite,...
In the name of business a blind eye was often turned to his predatory behavior. For all practical purposes, the rule of Muammar Gaddafi has ended....
For the last few months, some African states have dominated international news: Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya. Tunisia which has been governed with...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Odette Kayirere’s life was turned upside down when a militia captured and killed her husband during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. One year later, Kayirere...
KINSHASA, Congo — An official in Congo’s east says authorities have stopped a U.N.-registered vehicle carrying more than 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of minerals near the...
The president of Malawi has dissolved his Cabinet of more than 40 ministers and deputies without giving any reason.
Laurent Gbagbo and his wife charged with crimes ranging from armed robbery to looting.
CONAKRY, Guinea — Ten political prisoners have left a prison in Guinea’s capital a day after the president pardoned them and less than a month after...
KANO, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked two separate police stations across northern Nigeria, killing four police officers and two civilians in one attack while bombing a station...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Authorities in Nigeria say a radical Muslim sect operating in the northeast has shot dead another prominent cleric from the region, the latest...
Uganda‘s Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa has accused the opposition of using social media in a “grand plan” to topple the government. His comments came as...
KANO, Nigeria — Drug maker Pfizer Inc. says it has begun paying victims and their families affected by its fatal 1996 meningitis study in northern Nigeria....
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian officials say they will not heed the U.N.’s recommendation to halt construction on a dam that the world body says endangers...
North Sudan has granted its main ally and oil buyer China more oil exploration rights as both countries seek to boost ties, Sudan’s foreign minister said....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Authorities say two suspected members of a radical Muslim sect in northeastern Nigeria shot and killed a senior prison official and a school...
LUSAKA, Zambia — A Zambian judge has dismissed a petition from the main opposition party trying to block President Rupiah Banda from running for re-election next...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - He insisted sanctions by Western nations have stalled training and modernization programs in the military...
A mother and her childen wait for assistance at a makeshift medical camp in the Hawlwadag district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: EPA The season of “giving”...
JOHANNESBURG — South African officials say they will build a dedicated museum honoring Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid, on the site where he was arrested 49...
LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia’s main opposition party says President Rupiah Banda is ineligible for re-election because both his parents were allegedly born outside the country. The...
China and India, Asia’s two emerging powerhouses, have made no secret of their desire to engage with resource-rich Africa as they seek new economic partnerships to...
The African Union said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday it has postponed by two weeks a donor conference to raise money for Somalis and other Horn...
British court rules that Bodo community can seek compensation from Dutch oil giant after oil spills devastate area.
Niger security forces arrested ten soldiers for trying to overthrow the government last month, President Mahamadou Issoufou (pictured), said late on Tuesday, in his first public...
Libyan government forces fired a missile at an Italian warship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday in a rare attack on the NATO fleet offshore, a...
Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced Wednesday.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The United Nations says the southern African country of Zimbabwe needs more than $480 million this year in food, health and humanitarian aid....
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has named retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio as its candidate for presidential elections next year. The...
President Goodluck Jonathan tasks committee to carry out negotiations with Islamist group and report back by mid-August.
As we approach D-day, no agreement is in sight to extend America’s credit line. A default in servicing US debt has moved from the unthinkable to...
JOHANNESBURG — A Malawian human rights activist said Friday he is in hiding after being threatened before last week’s violent protests in this southern African country....
KANO, Nigeria — Officials in northern Nigeria say parents who do not allow their children to be vaccinated against polio now risk jail time for defying...
The villagers’ faces light up as Evans Wadongo (pictured) arrives. Men, women and children sing and gather around as he shows how his invention, a solar-powered...
Across the Middle East and North Africa, superficial political calm has been shattered by convulsions of rage. Idealistic young protesters have toppled some of the most...
DAKAR, Senegal — Chad’s government on Friday called on Senegal to extradite Chad’s ex-president to Belgium to face trial, a move that clears another hurdle in...
Brazil’s Embraer sees Africa as a major growth market and targets doubling the number of its jets operating on the continent, a top executive at the...
MANYANI, Kenya — Kenyan authorities have burned five tons of contraband elephant ivory in hopes of raising awareness about rising levels of poaching. President Mwai Kibaki...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed, said...
David Cameron: Free trade in Africa shows a way out of poverty Fifty years ago, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea was twice...
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Zimbabwe's electoral commission is not able to conduct the country's elections this year unless it gets cash injection from the government; a state-owned weekly newspaper reported...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s president has appointed most of the members of the new Cabinet. President Goodluck Jonathan told the newly appointed ministers at the presidential...
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has a new member — South Sudan. The African nation, which gained independence Saturday, became the U.N.’s 193rd member by...
Africa optimism rising Africa offers among the world’s best investment prospects as emerging markets grow ever more important, although its economies risk being destabilized by the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A public university says it is closing indefinitely after receiving bomb threats from a radical Muslim sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast. University of...
Two months after Alassane Ouattara was at last sworn in as president, following a bitterly disputed election last November, the government is restoring order and Abidjan...
