Africa

Gambia’s new government has endorsed the “one China” policy and said it would not establish any official relations or contacts with Taiwan, continuing a policy adopted in March 2016 by…

Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 26,…

A militant bomber attacked a police station in the eastern Algerian city of Constantine on Sunday but was shot before he could enter the building, state news agency and local…

A man is questioned and searched during random vehicle check as part of an operation by Somali security forces against suspected members of the militant group al-Shabab in the capital…

Aichetou Samba at her home in Nouakchott, Mauritania Salimata was always told she should be proud to come from a family of wife beaters. “You’re the daughter of a woman…

Christian families who left from Al-Arish in the North Sinai Governorate after the escalation of a campaign targeting Christians by Islamic State militants last week, arrive at the Evangelical Church…

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday he would not impose his successor and that if the ruling ZANU-PF party felt he should retire, it would hold an extraordinary congress…

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take “urgent measures” following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The…

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza The United Nations has called on political parties in Burundi to commit fully to peace talks to resolve a two-year old political crisis in the east…

Zambia expects to agree a deal with the International Monetary Fund in the first half of this year, Finance Minister Felix Mutati said on Friday. He also told Reuters the…