Africa

Uganda's long-time President Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected, electoral officials say, amid accusations of vote rigging by his main rival...

The Ethiopian government has promised to repair a centuries-old mosque that was damaged during the conflict in the northern Tigray...

Back in 2000, former South Africa President Nelson Mandela declared that “sport has the power to change the world.” Two...

People in Niger voted on Sunday in a presidential election that is expected to see the country's first democratic power transfer since independence...

Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a...

Information minister Osman Abukar Dubbe said Somali's Mogadishu-based government was recalling its diplomatic staff from Kenya and was giving Kenyan diplomats...

Continued fighting in many parts of Ethiopia's Tigray region is hindering efforts to deliver aid, the UN says. Millions of...

Thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern region of Tigray have run out of food, the UN's refugee agency,...

Officials have arrested 21 people accused of attempting to use fake "Covid-free certificates" to travel from Kenya to the United...

Ethiopia has urged the international community to refrain from "unwelcome and unlawful acts of interference" in its affairs following calls...