The Gambia on Wednesday appointed a special prosecutor nearly two years after creating the post to try crimes committed under the reign of brutal former strongman...
An army general and several soldiers were killed during an attempt to raid a military base in northeastern Nigeria early Thursday, officials said. The attack occurred...
A Cambodian refugee long-settled in the United States, ex-convict Pheap Rom, remains bewildered at how he wound up behind bars in the African nation of Eswatini...
NEW YORK (AP) — Journalist Kara Swisher begins her new, six-part CNN series about longevity and health in an interesting location — a cemetery. It’s the...
Two French nationals who returned home on Wednesday after being held for almost four years in Iran said they had never given up hope and would...
Madagascar has declared state of emergency over concerns about energy supplies to the Indian Ocean nation. President Randrianirina has signed a decree authorising the government to...
The Polisario Front, Western Sahara’s independence movement, celebrated the 50th anniversary Wednesday of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). To mark the occasion,...
The president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said on Wednesday that he was visiting Senegal’s capital Dakar to support Senegalese football leadership, but stopped...
FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan (AP) — The trouble started with a beautiful photo. Social media was soon awash with the lovely view of Japan’s snow-capped Mount Fuji looming...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — In the cramped backroom of a theater, Vicki Taylor glues together tiny figurines that peer over electrical boxes, canoe down drainage pipes...