Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Cape Town in South Africa in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Tension between Palestinians and Jerusalem have...

A distinctive voice and a unique sound. Forty years on, the legacy of reggae musician Bob Marley is still alive. Even if reggae music does...

The trial of former rebel leader Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes committed in Liberia entered a new phase Tuesday with the first witness hearings in...

Cameroon’s coastal waters have been invaded by three of the world’s most dangerous water weeds, proving an existential threat to aquatic ecosystems and livelihoods of...

The former head of world athletics, Lamine Diack, sentenced by a French court to four years in prison for corruption, has returned to Senegal, a...

Barely two years old, their faces are already withered, their eyes bulging on a forehead dotted with wrinkles. "How can I feed them enough?" worries...

It’s been a dry season for boxers in Egypt for several years now. Not since 2004 at the Athens Olympics have Egypt secured a boxing...

Teqball is still looking for a place in Senegal's crowded sports landscape, but it isn't short of admirers. Combining elements of football and table tennis,...

Michelle Rasul had just learned to read and write and was already spinning turntables, scratching hip-hop records and making the beats drop. Four years later,...

The season in Qatar is not over yet. Al Sadd, already champions, will meet Al Rayyan in the Amir's Cup final. Al Rayyan -- managed...

Ethiopia denies the killing of civilians in the war-hit northern region of Tigray. On Monday, Ethiopia’s deputy attorney general told reporters that ‘’a great majority’’...

A road and rail bridge linking Botswana and Zambia was inaugurated on Monday -- marking the completion of a multi-million-dollar project aimed at easing congestion...

The Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed the presence of the Indian coronavirus strain on its territory as five cases of the variant have been reported...

An arduous task awaits the new governor for the North Kivu province in eastern DR Congo. General Ndima Kongba Constant touched down at the...

Moroccans took to the streets of Rabat on Monday in support of Palestinians. As violence continued to escalate in East Jerusalem, demonstrators chanted slogans against...

The Israeli army said Tuesday it had killed 15 members of Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip, where it carried out 130 strikes in...

Rhizlane Siba is pressing on with her preparations for the Tokyo Olympics. The 24-year-old has continued training as normal despite observing the holy month of...

The African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's ruling party, has appointed a new secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, after Ace Magashule was suspended on Thursday on corruption...

Madagascar on Monday rolled out its Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Health Minister Jean Louis Hanitrala Rakotovao was among the first to be inoculated in the capital,...

The defense ministers of Burkina Faso, Chériff Sy, and Ivory Coast, Téné Birahima Ouattara, said Monday in Ouagadougou that they want to "mutualize" their efforts...

Several hundred more migrants reached a tiny Italian island before dawn on Monday, swelling to more than 2,100 the number of arrivals in some 24...

Gunmen abducted 10 worshippers from a mosque in northwestern Nigeria near the border with Niger on Monday, police said. Armed gangs, known locally as "bandits,"...

In Burundi, the list of Olympic games is constantly growing. Badminton is relatively new to the east African country but it is quickly gaining ground....

Swarms of granivorous birds are wreaking havoc in the millet fields of Logone and Chari in the far north of Cameroon. The millet farmers cannot...

The United States ambassador to Ethiopia on Monday hosted the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after he warned of ``genocide'' in the Tigray region...