Tunisian authorities said Sunday they had intercepted more than 200 migrants trying to reach the Italian coast, in nine separate...

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Thursday that six U.N. staff members had been released but five others, along with...

The speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament has said he will run for the presidency in next month’s election. Aguila Saleh’s...

The United Nations expressed alarm Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency November...

In an upper-class estate on the northern fringes of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a black gate with iron bars leads into...

Suicide bombers have targeted the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others, police...

Eastern commander Khalifa Haftar will run in Libya’s presidential elections due next month, he announced in a televised speech on...

U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths allocated $40 million on Monday to support life-saving aid and civilian protection efforts in Ethiopia...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, has registered as a presidential candidate for the country’s December...

More than 600 migrants, many of them Egyptians, arrived in southern Italy over the past 24 hours, officials said on...