Africa

Hundreds of Nigerian students kidnapped from their boarding school in the northern state of Zamfara have been released, state governor Dr. Bello Matawalle...

The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed on Monday during a visit to the eastern part of the country in a...

Libya's interior minister in the UN-recognized government narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Sunday on a highway near the capital, Tripoli.

Students and teachers were abducted from a school in Niger state, Nigerian officials confirmed on Wednesday.

South Africa on Sunday said it would suspend its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after initial trials showed "disappointing" results against the...

Somali police said the attack on Mogadishu's Hotel Afrik was brought to an end early Monday after heavy exchanges of gunfire with security forces and an...

ADDIS ABABA: The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Saturday said the ongoing second wave COVID-19 infections could be...

Suspected militants stormed two villages in western Niger late Saturday, killing at least 70 civilians and wounding 20 others, Interior Minister Alkache...

LUSAKA: Health authorities in Zambia on Wednesday officially confirmed the outbreak of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his voice message, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader, had said his militia was behind Friday's nighttime kidnapping, an online newspaper reported on...