Africa

Republic of Congo opposition leader Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelae died of coronavirus while he was being transferred to France for treatment, his campaign...

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has died at the age of 61, the government announced on Wednesday.Announcing his death in a live television address,...

Fifty-eight civilians were killed by gunmen on motorcycles in a volatile corner of Niger, the government said Tuesday.

At least 98 people have died from injuries sustained in a series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea, the health ministry said on Monday after volunteers...

Several people were killed when an explosives-packed car detonated at a restaurant in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu on Friday.

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...