The United Nations said on July 19 it was "extremely worried" about the fate of two Guinea opposition leaders reportedly tortured in custody, urging the…
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa committed his new coalition government to growth, job creation and poverty reduction as he opened parliament on July 18 following…
Kenyan police patrolled Port-au-Prince in armored vehicles on July 17, a local official said, while Haiti's Prime Minister Garry Conille announced new emergency measures to…
Kenyan President William Ruto on July 17 named his foreign minister as "acting cabinet secretary" for all ministries, nearly a week after dismissing almost his…
Guinea's public prosecutor on July 17 denied the arrest of two anti-junta activists and called for investigations into their disappearances, which sparked an international outcry.…
Flooding caused by heavy rains lashing Niger since June has killed 53 people and impacted 18,000, as the west African country grapples with the effects…
Over a year and a half since Haiti's rampant gang violence upended her life, Philomene Dayiti longs for nothing more than leaving the Port-au-Prince church…
Police fired tear gas and water cannon against dozens of demonstrators in Kenya's capital Nairobi on July 16, as scattered rallies across the country called…
Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates reached an agreement allowing for the resumption of travel between the two countries, Nigeria's information minister said on Juy…
Another 200 Kenyan police officers have left for Haiti under a UN-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation,…
Millions of Rwandans began voting in presidential and parliamentary elections on July 15, with the African nation's leader Paul Kagame set to cruise to victory…
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on July 14 launched a long-awaited process of reconciliation over notorious 1980s massacres by government troops that claimed tens of thousands…
Kenyan police said July 15 they had arrested a "serial killer" suspect who had confessed to murdering 42 women before dumping their dismembered bodies in…
A leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha was arrested July 13, his party said in a statement on Facebook. The party, whose chief Rached…
A total of eight bodies, all of them female, have been recovered so far from a dumpsite in a Nairobi slum, Kenya's acting police chief…
The United Nations mission in Libya on Saturday called for the "immediate" release of a prominent journalist arrested this week, warning against a "crackdown" on…
The international community on July 10 joined calls by South Sudan's opposition and rights groups to scrap legislation they fear could entrench human rights violations…
Junta-led Burkina Faso has adopted a plan to ban homosexuality, becoming the latest African nation to do so despite international condemnation. A cabinet meeting on…
Uganda on July 10 dismissed claims in a report by UN experts that it was backing M23 rebels active in the restive east of the…
Torrential flooding battered Sudan's southeast July 9, bringing entire villages underwater and causing homes to collapse, witnesses told AFP, in the first devastating weather event…
Moody's has downgraded Kenya's debt rating further into junk territory and warned the outlook was negative after a wave of protests led the government to…
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult went on trial on July 8 on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of…
The West African bloc ECOWAS on July 7 warned the region faced "disintegration" after the military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso cemented a…
Thousands of Moroccans demonstrated July 7 in the northern city of Tangier in support of the Palestinian people and against Morocco's ties with Israel, an…
A West African leaders' summit opens on July 7 amid political turmoil after the military rulers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso cemented a breakaway…
