U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke with South Sudan’s president and the top rebel leader Monday, urging them to quickly establish their transitional government, seen as a vital step to ending the country’s...
A new video showing some of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped two years ago gives hope they may return, their family and friends say. The footage obtained by CNN, apparently filmed...
Former journalist Hassan Hanafi Haji was executed by a Mogadishu firing squad Monday for his role in the murders of five colleagues as part of an al-Shabab campaign to control local media coverage...
Two thousand Zimbabwean opposition supporters, some holding placards calling for 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe to resign, have rallied in the capital Harare. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for countrywide demonstrations against the deteriorating...
Rows of soldiers in camouflage uniforms stood at attention Thursday, chanting war songs in a dusty field at Jebel Makor, 45 minutes from South Sudan’s capital, Juba. The troops are some of the...
Members of the Bring Back Our Girls movement gathered Thursday at Unity Fountain in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja amid a heavy police presence. It has been two years since Boko Haram grabbed...
The International Monetary Fund says Somalia has marked a milestone in its development by taking steps to normalize relations with international financial institutions. The IMF said Wednesday that a mission led by Rogerio Zandamela...
South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar says he will return to the capital on April 18 to form a transitional government with President Salva Kiir, more than two years after a feud between the...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says he will step down when his current term is over, four years from now. “In 2020, there will be a new president and I will be an ex-president,” Bashir...
Djibouti goes to the polls Friday. President Ismail Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, is widely expected to win another term though concerns have been raised about the country’s human rights situation in the...
