Zimbabwe is awaiting the results of its landmark elections, with both front runners saying they are confident. President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he had received “extremely positive”...
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for their role in the violence that erupted after President Mohammed Morsi’s removal in 2013. The group,...
Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number dead after a dam under construction collapsed in south-east Laos, state media reported. The collapse at the...
Islamist militants have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. The al-Shabab militant group says it killed 27 soldiers in...
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery manufacturing workshop dating to more than 4,000 years ago. Thursday’s statement by the Antiquities Ministry says the workshop...
South Africans along with former U.S. President Barack Obama were marking the centennial of Nelson Mandela’s birth on Wednesday with acts of charity in a country...
Egypt’s parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Under the...
Two large explosions followed by gunfire have been heard near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital. The blasts come a week after a similar attack on...
Egypt’s official statistics agency says annual inflation increased to 13.8 percent in June after a new round of austerity measures designed to overhaul the country’s economy....
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday, a day after he agreed with neighbor Eritrea to end a near...
Ethiopia’s attorney general has fired several senior prison officials, saying they failed to respect prisoners’ human rights. Attorney General Berhanu Tsegaye’s announcement of the dismissals and...