On Friday, Fitch downgraded Egypt’s credit rating from B+ to B with a negative outlook, indicating a potential further downgrade in the future due to the...
A devastating flood in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has led to the discovery of at least 176 dead bodies in and around two villages....
A 2016 drug regulation law in Uganda has been overturned on a procedural technicality by the Constitutional Court, which means people can grow and consume khat,...
More than 5,000 homes have been destroyed and at least 130 people have died due to flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Rwanda’s Western...
The conflict in Sudan between rival military forces continues despite the extension of a formal ceasefire agreement for an additional 72 hours. The Sudanese army and...
As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese in the capital Khartoum and other cities huddled in their homes for a third day Monday, while the army...
Dozens of people have been killed in a rural village in northern central Nigeria after an attack by gunmen, according to local government officials. The incident...
The Marburg virus, a highly infectious and lethal disease similar to Ebola, has been confirmed in Equatorial Guinea for the first time, with at least nine...
Nine individuals were killed and one was injured, with six more missing, in a violent extremist attack on a camp housing refugees from Mali in western...
A 13-year-old boy was killed and another teenager seriously injured in a landmine explosion on a street in the Yemeni city of Hodeida, according to medical...
CIA chief William Burns has met Libya’s interim premier weeks after the authorities handed the United States a suspect in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the Tripoli-based...