A fire in a girls’ dormitory in Kenya on Thursday killed 16 children and hospitalised 79 in the latest deadly blaze to hit a school in...
NEW YORK (AP) — At the pinnacle of the American cultural pyramid, one particular inspiration has echoed across the centuries through friendship and tension alike: France....
In Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, it is hard to tell an election will happen on Monday that will decide the next five years of Africa’s second...
French lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people across France’s colonies, in...
South Africa’s border police stopped a truck from Malawi that was driving into the country with drugs worth nearly one billion rand ($61 million), authorities said...
NEW YORK (AP) — Yoselin Sanchez has been in chronic pain since she was born with cervical scoliosis. While little eases the discomfort, she’s found ways...
Former vice-president and veteran Nigerian politician, Atiku Abubakar, has accepted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) party’s nomination as its presidential candidate. “I wish to express my...
The first group of almost 300 Ghanaians repatriated from South Africa amid anti-immigrant protests there, arrived home in Accra on Wednesday. They were welcomed by the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Your favorite pair of jeans may have traveled around the world through cotton farms, dye houses, wash facilities and factories before ending...
Uganda shut its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday in a bid to contain the Ebola outbreak that has hit its neighbour, the...