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...

Ethiopia says its soldiers have seized three towns in the northern Tigray region from forces it has been fighting in...

The U.N. secretary-general warned Monday that the situation in northern Ethiopia is “spiraling out of control” and he sees no...

Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and three others seriously injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in...

Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a century ago, the United Nations has said as it set...