South Africa’s presidential spokesman said Tuesday that the first round of peace talks on Ethiopia’s Tigray region have begun. Few...

Policymakers from around the world met Monday and Tuesday in Senegal to discuss Africa’s most pressing security challenges. This year,...

South Africa says it will allow a sanctioned Russian oligarch to dock his superyacht in Cape Town. The $521m (£472m)...

Ibrahim Traore has been sworn in as interim president of Burkina Faso, several weeks after Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was removed...

South Africa’s scandal-embroiled former president, Jacob Zuma, addressed the media Saturday for the first time after completing a 15-month jail...

Guinea’s ruling junta has agreed to restore civilian rule in two years, after facing sanctions over its original plan for...

The African Union has set October 24 in South Africa as the date and place for peace talks aimed at...

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a “very narrow window now to prevent genocide” in...

The death toll from heavy flooding in Nigeria has now surpassed 600, with more than 1 million people displaced from...

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, says the escalating hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are taking...