UN rights chief Volker Turk called Tuesday on Egypt to immediately release Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed political dissident who has been refusing food and is now refusing water too.
More than 42 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, surpassing the numbers from 2018, the U.S. Elections Project said Monday.
Zimbabwe on Monday announced the launch of its first nano-satellite into space in a bid to help collect data to monitor disasters, boost agriculture and enhance mineral mapping.
Three rights groups on Monday asked Tanzania to take action after an surge in attacks on albinos, whose limbs are used in occult practices believed to bring wealth and power.
West African nations vowed Monday at the UN COP27 talks in Egypt to protect 30 percent of their land and seas by 2030, a cornerstone pledge of high-stakes biodiversity talks in Canada next month.
The Kenya Airline Pilots Association (KALPA) was on Monday summoned to court over its ongoing strike, after dozens of flight cancellations left thousands of Kenya Airways passengers stranded.
General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Monday appointed by decree 104 more members of his "parliament" as he leads Chad's two-year transitional government after taking power on the death of his father.
Nigeria's former deputy Senate president will go on trial in Britain in January for alleged organ harvesting, a judge said on Monday.
Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia reeling from global warming impacts got a $1.4 billion philanthropic boost Monday to help them adapt to a world increasingly impacted by climate change.
A large hydrocarbon deposit has been discovered off the shore of Angola's capital Luanda at a site operated by American firm ExxonMobil, the country's national agency for oil, gas and biofuels announced Monday.
Rwandan authorities said a fighter jet from the Democratic Republic of Congo violated its airspace on Monday morning, barely 48 hours after the neighbors agreed to accelerate efforts to de-escalate tensions.
South Africa's president has denied wrongdoing in testimony to a parliamentary panel examining whether he should face impeachment over an alleged cover-up of a heist at his farmhouse, his office said on Monday.
Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.
The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.
The death toll from Sunday's plane crash in Lake Victoria in Tanzania has jumped to 19, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said, after the Precision Air flight with dozens of passengers aboard plunged into water while approaching the northwestern city of Bukoba.
Uganda on Saturday extended a three-week lockdown on two districts at the center of an Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 50 lives, curbing travel and closing public places.
PARIS, FRANCE — Many African leaders manage to cling to power for decades, either by force, breaking laws or bending constitutions. It's an established norm that has been practiced throughout the modern history of the continent.
Kenya Airways pilots went on strike Saturday, grounding over two dozen flights and stranding thousands of passengers, as ground workers followed suit throwing the country's aviation sector into chaos
The capital of Cameroon the scrap-metal district, Yaounde is in full swing and high-value metals from circuit boards and switches, however the work can carry an untold human and environmental cost.
World food prices held steady in October, though cereal prices rose over uncertainty of a deal giving safe passage for Ukrainian grains on the Black Sea, a UN agency said Friday.
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