At least 40 people were killed when a tanker truck exploded after crashing in central Liberia, the police said on...
A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest Wednesday in the...
Mbongeni Ngema, author of the musical "Sarafina" about student revolts in apartheid-era Soweto, died Wednesday in a road accident at...
Three "terrorists" were shot dead on Wednesday during an operation carried out by National Guard (gendarmerie) officers and military personnel...
Benin has lifted its suspension of imported goods transiting to Niger through the port of Cotonou, the port's director general...
At least 15 people died between Tuesday and Wednesday in Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Sigrid Kaag, the Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and a Mideast expert, was appointed the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid...
On Wednesday, the Fitch rating agency announced that it was downgrading the rating of Ethiopia's international currency debt rating from...
Supporters of a prominent Malian religious and political figure, Imam Mahmoud Dicko, denounced on Wednesday an "orchestrated cabal" against him,...
Nigeria's Vice President, Kashim Shettima, visited a displaced persons camp in northern Plateau State, on Wednesday and engaged with survivors...