The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on...
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says it accepts Ethiopia’s request to delay a meeting about a dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, after Addis...
A U.S. drone strike in central Yemen killed two suspected al-Qaeda members on a motorbike including a local commander, a security official said Saturday. The unmanned...
A trio of suicide bombers detonated at a crowded fish market in northern Nigeria, killing at least 20 people, police said Saturday. Borno state police spokesman...
The United Nations said Wednesday it had registered 18 alleged cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by its peacekeepers and civilian personnel in the Democratic Republic...
South Africa’s elite police unit has raided the home of a controversial business family linked to President Jacob Zuma, as pressure increases on him to stand...
Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has freed 13 hostages, whose release was negotiated by authorities in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Three...
The UN said Friday that surging violence across Yemen had pushed some 85,000 people from their homes in the past 10 weeks, with hundreds continuing to...
An explosion took place at a mosque in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, residents said. One person was killed and 37 were wounded...
An estimated 90 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler’s boat capsized early on Friday, leaving three known survivors...
Egypt’s president has given a thinly veiled but stern warning to opposition politicians calling for a boycott of presidential elections in March, saying he would die...