Fifty years ago I was a teenager growing up in Cape Town. At about 10pm on 29 September 1969, our ...

CAIRO - Sudan's newly appointed prime minister is launching an independent investigation into June's deadly crackdown on protesters that killed ...

An Iranian man held hostage by Somali pirates for four-and-a-half years has been released and is on his way home, ...

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said they plan to introduce a second Ebola vaccine ...

TUNIS, TUNISIA - With the burial in Saudi exile Saturday of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia is ...

ADDIS ABABA - An Iranian man held by Somali pirates for more than four years was flown to Ethiopia's capital ...

Rio de Janeiro - Gabriel Jesus returned on Friday to the Brazil squad for next month's friendlies against Nigeria and ...

CAIRO - Rare small protests were staged overnight in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President ...

Tunisia's influential Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha said Friday it will support law professor and political outsider Kais Saied in a presidential ...

Nigeria wants to issue identity numbers for as many as 50 million citizens per year in a bid to create ...

Manchester - Pep Guardiola has backed Riyad Mahrez to be a key man for Manchester City after the Algeria winger's ...

A Malian police commissioner was killed on Thursday by a mob that accused him of links with bandits, the security ...

WASHINGTON - As the world waited for the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to decide what to do next in response ...

Human culture is a visual culture. From cave paintings to selfies, we have always used images to tell stories about ...

The World Bank and Nigeria are in talks for as much as $2.5bn (R37bn) in a new tranche of concessionary ...

Cape Town - In an exclusive interview, newly-appointed Bafana Bafana coach MOLEFI NTSEKI talks about the state of SA football, ...

JUBA , SOUTH SUDAN - Flash floods caused by torrential rains that began Sunday have displaced thousands of people in ...

VOA's Carol Van Dam contributed to this report.JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- South Sudanese President Salva Kiir held a prayer meeting ...

An Algerian court on Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a leading figure in protests that have gripped Algeria for ...

As West African leaders try to find ways to stop jihadist violence in the Sahel region, attention is turning to ...