Africa
At least 73 are dead, many of them homeless, as fire rips through a rundown building in South Africa
A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg, forcing some to throw babies out of third-story windows in a desperate attempt to save them and leaving at least 73 people dead early Thursday, witnesses and emergency services in South Africa’s biggest city said. At least ...
Burkina Faso's Cabinet has given the government the greenlight to send troops to help defend neighboring Niger, where the military deposed President Mohamed Bazoum about a month ago. ...
The EU defense ministers gathered on Wednesday to discuss recent developments in Africa and the bloc's support for Ukraine. The EU defense and foreign ministers hold a two-day ...
Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, after the Central African state's election body announced that President Ali Bongo had won a third ...
The mutinous soldiers who overthrew democratically elected Niger President Mohamed Bazoum announced a raft of measures over the weekend that analysts say are aimed at strengthening their grip on power ...
Libya's prime minister suspended Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush on Sunday and referred her for investigation after Israel said its Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had met her last week ...
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary, officials said. The resumption of talks ...
At least 23 Boko Haram terrorists were killed Saturday in operations against the group in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, director of defense media ...
Polls have opened in the oil-rich central African nation of Gabon where President Ali Bongo - who came to power when his father Omar died in 2009 - is hoping to win a third term. He faces competition from 13 people. "Gabon is not the property of the Bongos," says rival candidate Albert Ondo Ossa, ...
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa held closed-door discussions Wednesday on the possible expansion of their BRICS economic bloc, a move they’ve framed as a way to ...
