Mali’s former Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga died on Monday in the capital, Bamako, a close relative of his family...

Media watchdogs in southern Africa are calling on the governments of Angola, Eswatini and Zimbabwe to do more to protect...

South Sudan is witnessing “the worst hunger crisis to date.” That’s the assessment of U.N. World Food Program’s Marwa Awad,...

West Africa is beginning to open up to the world again. As COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted, cultural events, like...

A senior U.N. official warned Wednesday that the current political standoff in Libya could lead to instability and two parallel...

Nigeria has evacuated at least 1,800 of its citizens from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, but says that 80 Nigerian students...

There is a looming food shortage in some African countries over the Russia- Ukraine war. The United Nations Secretary General, António...

A court in Zimbabwe dismissed a discharge application Tuesday in a case against a New York Times journalist. Freelance journalist...

The Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious award, was awarded Tuesday to Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere, the first African...

The U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to prolong its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan for one more year, after Russia...