Africa

Somalia's leadership has made a swift reversal on an oil exploration deal signed with a US company. On Saturday, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral...

Malawi has reported an outbreak of wild polio two and a half years after Africa was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...

Geneva: World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Thursday announced that Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Tunisia on Sunday, following a controversial presidential decree published in the early hours.

At least six people were killed after Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on Madagascar's coast, the disaster management agency said Sunday.

Rescue workers on Saturday inched closer to reaching a 5-year-old boy who has been trapped in an underground well in northern Morocco.

Mogadishu: A minivan was hit by a landmine on Friday in southern Somalia, killing 10 passengers, including five women and four children.Deqow Abdinur Aden,...

A landslide in the Ecuadorian capital Quito has left at least 24 people dead, city authorities said on Tuesday.

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said stability was restored on Tuesday, after a suspected coup attempt in the country's capital, Bissau.

An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has affected part of a nature reserve in the Amazon rainforest and polluted a major river, the government said...