Africa

Tokyo: Egyptian authorities are demanding $550 million in compensation from the Japanese owner of a cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week...

Abuja: Nigerian police on Sunday said a group of gunmen killed one resident and abducted some students following an attack in the country's...

Malian interim President Bah N'Daw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were put under arrest by military officers on Monday, drawing condemnation from the...

A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption appeared to have stopped a few hundred meters short of the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of...

Brazzaville, Congo: Africa's rollout of coronavirus vaccines is being undermined by supply shortages and financial difficulties, the African regional office...

Chad's President Idriss Debby has died while visiting troops on the front lines of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday....

Despite an ongoing economic crisis in the Republic of Congo, the country's veteran President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been reelected with more than 88...

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.