Violence around Tanzania’s October general election left 518 people dead, a government-appointed commission said Thursday — a figure far below opposition estimates of thousands killed.
Delaying the closure of South Africa’s coal-fired power plants could lead to up to 32,000 preventable deaths between 2026 and 2050, climate rights groups warned on Wednesday.
Caught between imported inflation, dependence on international markets, and structural fragilities, African economies find themselves on the front line of a crisis they did not cause.
An envoy to United States President Donald Trump world football's governing body FIFA to replace Iran with Italy at the upcoming World Cup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
The United Nations says Libya is at a “critical” crossroads, facing deep political fragmentation, a distorted economy, and delayed elections that threaten the country’s stability.
The first batch of deportees arrived in the DRC last Friday under a controversial US migration scheme to pack off undocumented foreign nationals to third countries.
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons that they are not alone, as he drew attention Wednesday to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Seychelles President Patrick Herminie at the Kremlin on Wednesday for talks focused on bilateral ties and international issues.
Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a sixth term as President of Djibouti, the country's constitutional council has confirmed. Guelleh won 97.01% of the vote, the council said on Tuesday.
Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons that they are not alone, as he drew attention Wednesday to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years.
Sahrawi refugees go about daily life in the Aousserd camp near Tindouf in southern Algeria as residents say decades in exile have not weakened their demand for independence in Western Sahara: "Our demands are simple -- independence, and nothing else."