On Wednesday the UN special envoy for Sudan, Pekka Haavisto, and Swiss officials opened a new meeting of regional and global ...

Nigerian authorities are racing to trace contacts after a diplomat was declared the country’s first Ebola case. The patient ...

South Africa is stepping in to ease the fuel-price crisis, announcing billions of rand in tax relief as motorists and ...

The comments come as South Sudan says more than 150 people were killed in a strike in the disputed Abyei border region.

A major development in US-Russia relations. Russia has released retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard, imprisoned on ...

Will Senegal's former president Macky Sall return to national politics now that he has stepped back from a potential role at ...

Images of the riots, which began as peaceful student protests before getting out of control, were posted and broadcast around ...

Nigeria's latest case marks the country's first recorded Ebola infection since 2014, raising concerns about further ...

The Biennale of Contemporary Art in the French city of Lyon is one of the most important international events for the art ...

Burundi has commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of former President Melchior Ndadaye, with tributes to the slain leader renewing debate over the state of democracy in the country.

A mass funeral was held Wednesday for 75 new recruits killed earlier this week in a Houthi missile strike in southern Yemen ...

The announcement by industrialist Aliko Dangote, comes weeks after he laid the foundation stone for an oil refinery in ...