Africa

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers at a memorial for President Ebrahim Raisi, drawing tens of thousands of attendees. The ceremony, held in Tehran, was a significant display...

Kenya's government halted schools in the capital and two other locations on Wednesday, as East Africa's economic powerhouse readied for three days of protests against rising living costs and tax...

Two communities in southeast Kenya were assaulted by armed men, and five residents were slain, according to the police. The villages of Juhudi and Salama in Lamu County, on the...

Local media said that a plainclothes internal squad raided the residence of prominent Tunisian journalist Zied el-Heni in a neighborhood of Tunis. El-Heni, the anchor of Radio IFM's daily programming,...

Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio is running for a second and last term in an election on Saturday, and almost 3.4 million Sierra Leoneans are registered to vote. Across the...

According to South Kivu provincial governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, the number of people killed by flooding and landslides in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo this...

A Rohingya refugee group visited Myanmar to see new facilities for resettling the persecuted minority. On Friday, Bangladeshi officials claimed 20 Rohingya and seven officials, including a border guard officer,...

In the latest sign of respect for the Indigenous people of Morocco, the king has declared the Amazigh New Year (also known as the Berber New Year) to be a...

In the most recent outbreak of violence in the West African country, 33 soldiers were killed and 12 others were injured in an attack on a military installation in the...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) opened a center for mRNA vaccine technology in Cape Town to aid developing nations in gaining access to critical vaccines. Afrigen...