Africa News

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 10 people are dead with many homes destroyed in flooding caused by torrential rains across…

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Festus Mogae, Botswana’s former president who made a national priority of the fight against HIV and…

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic’s former prime minister and major opposition figure, Anicet Georges Dologuélé, criticized…

TOUBAB DIALAO, Senegal (AP) — Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa descended on a Senegalese fishing village over the weekend…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of South Africans took to the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest high levels of…

Islamic militants and separatists say they attacked several locations in Mali’s capital, Bamako, and other cities in one of the…

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa was so dizzying in its complexity that it recalls some of the early globe-trotting…

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad will deploy 1,500 troops to Haiti as part of the United Nations security force to…

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Denis Sassou N’Guesso was sworn in Thursday to a new five-year term as the…

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon ‘s former prime minister and leading opposition figure Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze has been arrested by the…