South Africa says it will allow a sanctioned Russian oligarch to dock his superyacht in Cape Town. The $521m (£472m) vessel, which belongs to Alexei Mordashov - an ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin - left Hong Kong earlier this week. South ... Read More

Ibrahim Traore has been sworn in as interim president of Burkina Faso, several weeks after Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was removed in a coup. At a ceremony on Friday, Traore pledged support for a transition leading to elections in July 2024 as ... Read More

Former President Jacob Zuma South Africa's scandal-embroiled former president, Jacob Zuma, addressed the media Saturday for the first time after completing a 15-month jail term for contempt of court, alleging the country's justice system is unjust and infiltrated by foreign interests. Zuma, ... Read More

Guinea's ruling junta has agreed to restore civilian rule in two years, after facing sanctions over its original plan for a three-year transfer of power, the West African bloc ECOWAS said Friday. West African leaders had last month suspended Guinea from ... Read More

The African Union has set October 24 in South Africa as the date and place for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to an Ethiopian official. The announcement from Redwan Hussein, the national security adviser ... Read More

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Tedros, who previously served as Ethiopia’s health minister and foreign affairs minister, has ... Read More

The death toll from heavy flooding in Nigeria has now surpassed 600, with more than 1 million people displaced from their homes. The flooding has covered farms and roads and slowed shipments of food and fuel. Authorities are struggling to ... Read More

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, says the escalating hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are taking a devastating toll on the civilian population and must stop. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. U.N. rights chief Volker ... Read More

Shire became home to thousands of people fleeing fighting elsewhere Ethiopia says its soldiers have seized three towns in the northern Tigray region from forces it has been fighting in the 23-month civil war. It has promised to take "maximum care" to ... Read More

Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 18, 2022. The U.N. secretary-general warned Monday that the situation in northern Ethiopia is “spiraling out of control” and he ... Read More