Kenya is not in the grips of an ebola outbreak, the country's health secretary insisted on Wednesday, in the wake of Kenya's ...

In southern Madagascar, residents are bracing themselves for the impact due in the coming months of the El Nino warming ...

Africa will launch its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by ...

French scientist Henri B Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for offering a solution ...

Ghana's cabinet has given the green light to a decision to formally apply to join the BRICS geopolitical and economic bloc, ...

Several Nairobi residents expressed fear and concern on Wednesday, a day after Kenyan authorities announced the country's first-ever Ebola death.

Eritrean troops have been deployed in recent days around the town of Adigrat, in Ethiopia's Tigray region, a local official and residents told AFP on Wednesday.

The footballer concluded his 21-year run with the national team scoring a goal in the 71st minute of a friendly against Benin.

The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday said 25 people died in the crash of one of its planes a day earlier, lowering a previous death toll. No survivors were found. Civilian family members travelling ...

Ethiopian federal forces were in full control of the Tigray rebels' regional capital, a local journalist said on Sunday, ...

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Egypt on Tuesday rejected accusations that detained journalists from an independent fact-checking platform were tortured or ...