A first delegation to verify the ceasefire between the Congolese army and M23 was deployed to the region in late August ...

African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit in Tshwane on Wednesday, ...

Kenya is not in the grips of an ebola outbreak, the country's health secretary insisted on Wednesday, in the wake of Kenya's ...

In southern Madagascar, residents are bracing themselves for the impact due in the coming months of the El Nino warming ...

Kenya’s Health Ministry has heightened surveillance at border entry points and created an Ebola hotline for citizens to ...

Africa will launch its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by ...

Ghana's cabinet has given the green light to a decision to formally apply to join the BRICS geopolitical and economic bloc, ...

French scientist Henri B Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for offering a solution ...

Several Nairobi residents expressed fear and concern on Wednesday, a day after Kenyan authorities announced the country's first-ever Ebola death.

Benin issued an international warrant for the influencer's arrest on December 12 after he supported a foiled coup in which ...

Eritrean troops have been deployed in recent days around the town of Adigrat, in Ethiopia's Tigray region, a local official and residents told AFP on Wednesday.

The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday said 25 people died in the crash of one of its planes a day earlier, lowering a previous death toll. No survivors were found. Civilian family members travelling ...