About 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday to send ships to waters near Somalia's coast to deter and combat piracy there, a spokesman said.
The U.N. food aid agency is calling for help for Zimbabwe after finding people in rural areas subsisting on wild fruits.
The South African government says it will press ahead with plans to sell 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on trade.
It's time for Americans to look beyond their borders, superstar Texas preacher T.D. Jakes said Thursday as he prepared to hold his trademark Megafest in Johannesburg, South Africa -- outside the U.S. for the first time.
NATO agreed Thursday to send ships soon to protect vessels off Somalia's coast as bandits holding a Ukrainian ship laden with weapons softened their ransom demands in response to mounting international pressure.
A former top Rwandan official charged for his alleged role in genocide during the 1990s has been transferred to a U.N. detention facility in Africa.
A British oil worker was abducted in northern Somalia on Wednesday but security forces surrounded his kidnappers and freed him in a gunbattle, killing one bandit and wounding another, a government minister said.
The defense minister who resigned in protest at the ouster of President Thabo Mbeki says he and other disgruntled members of the governing African National Congress may break away to form a new opposition.
About 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday to send ships to waters near Somalia's coast to deter and combat piracy there, a spokesman said.
The U.N. food aid agency is calling for help for Zimbabwe after finding people in rural areas subsisting on wild fruits.
The South African government says it will press ahead with plans to sell 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on trade.
It's time for Americans to look beyond their borders, superstar Texas preacher T.D. Jakes said Thursday as he prepared to hold his trademark Megafest in Johannesburg, South Africa -- outside the U.S. for the first time.
NATO agreed Thursday to send ships soon to protect vessels off Somalia's coast as bandits holding a Ukrainian ship laden with weapons softened their ransom demands in response to mounting international pressure.
A former top Rwandan official charged for his alleged role in genocide during the 1990s has been transferred to a U.N. detention facility in Africa.
A British oil worker was abducted in northern Somalia on Wednesday but security forces surrounded his kidnappers and freed him in a gunbattle, killing one bandit and wounding another, a government minister said.
The defense minister who resigned in protest at the ouster of President Thabo Mbeki says he and other disgruntled members of the governing African National Congress may break away to form a new opposition.
President Robert Mugabe's party says the opposition is putting Zimbabwe's troubled power-sharing talks at risk by speaking publicly about the negotiations.
Kenyan immigration officials on Tuesday questioned the author of a book that is highly critical of Sen. Barack Obama, Kenyan police said.
The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday condemned the brutal slaying of a Somali woman and her three children in South Africa as a xenophobic attack.
A man on a hijacked ship carrying tanks and heavy weapons said Tuesday that the ransom had been reduced to US$8 million. It was unclear if he was officially speaking for the pirates holding the vessel.
Patrick Muriithi has some common parenting concerns: how to stop Max from sneaking out at night, whether it's OK to leave him at home alone, and an older woman who has been milling around with a come-hither look.
A doctor says an Italian and a Somali aid worker have been wounded and their driver killed in a remote-controlled land mine attack in southern Somalia.
Governance has improved in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a governance monitor said Monday.
Police broke up an anti-government march by launching tear gas and beating protesters who were demanding Mauritania's deposed president be reinstated.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called Monday for renewed efforts to arrest a notorious Ugandan rebel leader following reports of a new wave of attacks.
When Richard Maponya did well as a clothes salesman, his white boss could not promote him under the rules of apartheid.
A baby was found alive by rescuers after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash floods that killed at least 41 people in central Algeria last week, a local official said Sunday.
Zimbabwe's political factions are back in talks but have yet to agree on a unity Cabinet.
There have been four failed pirate attacks in the last 24 hours off the lawless Somali coast despite the presence of six American warships guarding a hijacked ship full of weapons, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Saturday.
Islamists began demolishing an old Roman Catholic church in southern Somalia on Tuesday to replace it with a mosque, and vowed to do the same with all other non-Muslim places of worship they find in the area.
Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter John Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in his lifetime. And based on his experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, he says, real change is possible.
Torrential rains in the Algerian Sahara caused flash floods that killed 30 people and injured dozens in a historic oasis region, officials in the North African nation said Thursday.
Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter John Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in his lifetime. And based on his experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, he says, real change is possible.
A stampede at an overcrowded dance hall in central Tanzania killed 20 children and left 50 others injured as they celebrated an important Muslim festival, police said Thursday.
The Somali government has asked Russia to intervene against pirates who have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship, the Somali ambassador to Russia said Wednesday.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled this year, threatening to make international trade more expensive and offering terrorists a new source of income, says a report released Wednesday.
Suspects arrested in a clandestine anti-terrorism sweep in East Africa nearly two years ago have been abandoned by their governments, a human rights group said in a report released Wednesday that also detailed torture accusations from former prisoners.
Somali pirates who hijacked a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons stared down U.S. warships and helicopters again Wednesday, making no move to withdraw their $20 million ransom demand or give up after a seven-day standoff in the Indian Ocean.
Somali pirates who hijacked a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons stared down U.S. warships and helicopters again Wednesday, making no move to withdraw their $20 million ransom demand or give up after a seven-day standoff in the Indian Ocean.
Zimbabwe's opposition says its leader met with President Robert Mugabe but failed to agree on sharing Cabinet posts to finalize a power-sharing agreement.
Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.
A new command takes over all U.S. military operations in Africa on Wednesday, a controversial program that many Africans fear has a hidden agenda skewed by the war on terror and a self-interested scramble for resources.
Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday.
Nigeria's military has arrested more than 400 suspected militants following a spate of attacks in the restive southern oil region, an official said Tuesday.
Some of the 11 European tourists and their Egyptian guides kidnapped 10 days ago and released unharmed Monday have left an Egyptian hospital and are headed home, officials said.
Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans lined up at banks Monday, desperate to take out their money after the government raised the limit on daily withdrawals.
Several U.S. navy ships have converged near a Ukrainian cargo ship, seized last week by pirates off the coast of Somalia, a navy official told CNN Monday.
A crew member of a Ukrainian vessel pirates seized off the African coast last week has died, a Somali town commissioner said Sunday.
At least 52 Somalis died when the boat smuggling them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down, and they were left adrift with no food or water for 18 days, U.N. officials said Sunday.
Six of the alleged kidnappers of a group of tourists were killed by the Sudanese army in a high speed chase across desert, but the missing Europeans are still being held in Chad, Sudan's military spokesman said Sunday.
Pirates who seized a Ukrainian vessel loaded with tanks and weapons off the African coast have lowered their ransom demand to $5 million.
Zimbabwe urgently needs to form a new government in order to address a food crisis in the nation and prevent starvation, newly designated Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai told reporters Saturday.
A Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and ammunition has been seized by pirates off the coast of Kenya, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told CNN.
AIDS activists are celebrating the removal of South Africa's health minister, who is accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths because of her mistrust of anti-AIDS medicines.
South Africa's Parliament chose the deputy president of the ruling ANC party, Kgalema Motlanthe, as interim president Thursday to replace outgoing President Thabo Mbeki, the African National Congress said.
Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramses II.
Congo's 83-year-old prime minister announced Thursday he is resigning due to fatigue.
The kidnappers of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians snatched while on a Sahara desert trip in Egypt and moved to Sudan were taken to neighboring Libya Thursday, according to the Sudanese government.
Islamist militants launched a massive assault on African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital Wednesday, sparking battles that killed at least 17 civilians, according to witnesses and journalists in Mogadishu.
Most of 26 refugees on board an overloaded boat which capsized in a Sudan river Wednesday are believed to have drowned, the United Nations refugee agency said.
Sudanese troops are keeping watch over a band of kidnappers holed up in the desert after snatching a 19-member tour group in Egypt, but are not closing in on them, fearing any move could endanger the hostages, Sudan's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Security forces aboard a U.S. naval vessel fired warning shots toward two approaching small boats off the Somali coast Tuesday, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama's elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate's uncle said Thursday.
The United Nations' special investigator for Sudan said Tuesday she hoped her assignment would be extended another year, despite attempts by Khartoum and its allies to end her critical reporting to the global body's Human Rights Council.
Ten South African ministers and the deputy president have resigned as President Thabo Mbeki prepares to leave office.
A Kenyan human rights body says police have committed "crimes against humanity" against the country's most notorious gang.
Germany's government has taken the lead trying to negotiate the release of a group of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in the southern Egyptian desert and taken to neighboring Sudan, authorities said Tuesday.
At least 33 people have been killed as fighting rages in the volatile Somali capital of Mogadishu, residents and media reports said on Monday.
The U.S. attorney general is trying to prevent immigration authorities from sending a Muslim woman to her home country, where she was a victim of female genital mutilation.
A group of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians have been kidnapped in the southern Egyptian desert and apparently taken to neighboring Sudan, an Egyptian government spokesman said on Monday.
A diamond unearthed in the southern African nation of Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement Monday from company that found it.
A U.N. official says the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food aid has more than doubled.
Sudan officials plan a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort at the United Nations this week to avert the prosecution of the country's longtime president on charges of genocide in Darfur.
South Africa's ruling African National Congress party is to name deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the successor to President Thabo Mbeki Monday, two government sources have told CNN.
South African President Thabo Mbeki announced his formal resignation Sunday during a televised address but did not say when he would leave office.
Nigeria's main militant group declared a unilateral cease-fire in the southern oil region Sunday, ending the worst spate of militant attacks in years to hit Africa's oil giant.
Gunmen kidnapped a German man and his Somali wife in northern Somalia in the latest in a string of attacks targeting foreigners in one of the world's poorest countries, a local governor said Sunday.
The leadership of the ruling African National Congress party in South Africa's call for President Thabo Mbeki to resign means the end of an era in South African politics.
South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed Saturday to resign, clearing the way for his longtime political rival, Jacob Zuma, to run for the office next spring.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Zimbabwe's president and newly appointed prime minister are at loggerheads over ministerial appointments, three days after signing a power-sharing deal.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced a $1,000 note -- $10 trillion in the old value -- as the country battles to end cash shortages in the hyper-inflationary environment.
Nigeria's main militant group said Wednesday that it had destroyed an oil-pumping station and a pipeline crossing southern Nigeria in a rare daylight attack extending violence in the restive region into its fifth day.
Zimbabwe's new prime minister said Tuesday he does not trust longtime President Robert Mugabe, but he does trust Mugabe's commitment to their new power-sharing agreement.
Hundreds of Somali troops are guarding the airport in the capital after insurgents have threatened to shut it down.
Zimbabwe's opposition will get more Cabinet posts than President Robert Mugabe's party in the long-sought unity government, state radio reported Sunday.
Zimbabwe's political rivals set aside deep differences Monday to sign a power-sharing deal intended to end the violent crisis that has paralyzed the country since the disputed election in March.
French troops rescued two French hostages in a gunfight with Somali pirates that left one of the kidnappers dead, officials said Tuesday.
Accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday.
A collision between a tourist bus and a speeding truck in Egypt's Sinai peninsula killed 12 people and injured 33 early Monday, according to officials.
A day after declaring war in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, the country's main rebel group said Monday it was continuing its "destructive sweep" against oil facilities in Rivers State.
Islamist fighters battling for control of Somalia have threatened to close Mogadishu's only airport, warning all airlines to stop flights into the Somali capital by early Tuesday.
Two kidnapped employees of the United Nations World Food Program were released hours after they were abducted, a spokesman said Monday, but 11 aid workers remained in captivity amid a series of attacks on the humanitarian community.
Two kidnapped employees of the United Nations World Food Program were released hours after they were abducted, a spokesman said Monday, but 11 aid workers remained in captivity amid a series of attacks on the humanitarian community.
Nigeria's main rebel group declared Sunday an "oil war" in the west African nation in response to what it said were "unprovoked" attacks by Nigerian government forces a day earlier.
A South African judge has ruled Friday that the prosecution against African National Congress President Jacob Zuma was invalid, clearing the way for him to contest the presidential election early next year.
A breakthrough deal ending months of anguished negotiation gives the opposition control of the Cabinet and the police who have terrorized them, and makes removing draconian security and media laws a priority, two opposition officials said Friday.
A South African judge has ruled prosecutors were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma with corruption, effectively clearing the path of the 66-year-old former freedom-fighter to become national president.
A power-sharing deal has been reached between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, South African President Thabo Mbeki said.
The chief investigator in the slaying of an American diplomat in Sudan testified Thursday that the five suspects on trial also planned to kill a British diplomat in the East African country.
Rare images of an African animal so elusive that it was once believed to be mythical have been released.
Talks aimed at forming a government of national unity to end Zimbabwe's long political crisis resumed Wednesday amid mounting optimism.
Heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents killed at least nine Somalis in the capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said.
Pirates hijacked a South Korean bulk carrier off Somalia's coast Wednesday but were thwarted in a separate attempt to seize a Greek ship, a maritime official said.
A rebel group turned opposition party that resorted to violence the last time it lost at the polls has accepted defeat in Angola's parliamentary elections.
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