Africa

Libya's interior minister in the UN-recognized government narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Sunday on a highway near the capital, Tripoli.

Students and teachers were abducted from a school in Niger state, Nigerian officials confirmed on Wednesday.

South Africa on Sunday said it would suspend its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after initial trials showed "disappointing" results against the...

Somali police said the attack on Mogadishu's Hotel Afrik was brought to an end early Monday after heavy exchanges of gunfire with security forces and an...

ADDIS ABABA: The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Saturday said the ongoing second wave COVID-19 infections could be...

Suspected militants stormed two villages in western Niger late Saturday, killing at least 70 civilians and wounding 20 others, Interior Minister Alkache...

LUSAKA: Health authorities in Zambia on Wednesday officially confirmed the outbreak of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In his voice message, Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram's leader, had said his militia was behind Friday's nighttime kidnapping, an online newspaper reported on...

Abuja: As many as 400 children could have been kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina as their school got attacked by a group of unknown armed...

Ethiopia and the United Nations reached an agreement on Wednesday to allow aid into government-controlled areas of the Tigray region, where federal troops...