Africa

After five days of intensive warfare, scores of hospitals in Sudan have been destroyed, leaving the healthcare system crippled and the humanitarian crisis worsening. Since violence broke out between the...

Alhadj Barh kissed his wife for the first time in almost two years as the noon sun rose over N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. It was a fresh start for a...

According to Ennahda party leaders, opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been arrested and his party's office has been seized by Tunisian police. Ghannouchi's home was searched by police on Monday...

An armed section of Colombia's dissolved FARC rebels has declared they are ready to negotiate peace with the government next month, which might be a turning point for leftist President...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the accusations against former Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh and demanded his urgent release. Laarayedh, 68 years old, is the vice-president of the opposition...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has requested "huge international help" for Somalia, which is experiencing the worst drought in decades. On Tuesday, while in Mogadishu for a press conference with...

It's probable that the Ethiopian government's stated intention to incorporate all regional special forces into the national army or the federal or regional police would be interpreted as an attempt...

The government of Kenya announced on Monday that the country will launch its first functioning satellite the following week. The Swahili word for "one nation" is "Taifa-1," and on April...

According to AFP, Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi has been sentenced to three years in jail by the Sidi M'Hamed court in Algiers for "foreign funding of his enterprise." El...

After the airing of an interview with the leader of al-North Qaeda's African wing on France 24, the military administration of Burkina Faso has ordered the suspension of the television...