Africa

Members of the Red Crescent remove the dead bodies of unidentified people after being found buried in Ganfouda district in Benghazi, Libya, February 23, 2017. The bodies of 27 migrants…

Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa’s Lake Chad region caused by drought, chronic poverty and Islamist insurgents…

Uganda is holding dozens of fighters from the M23 rebel group who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo after clashing with troops there this week, the Ugandan military said on…

Kenyan airlines have been granted security clearance by U.S. authorities for direct flights to the United States, Kenya’s minister of transport said on Thursday, having improved infrastructure at Nairobi’s main…

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has condemned acts of violence between citizens and non-nationals, his office said on Friday. Anti-immigrant violence has flared sporadically in…

South African residents travel on the back of a pick-up as they look for foreign nationals during a xenophobic march by the Mamelodi Concerned Residents through the streets of Pretoria…

Somalia’s new president was inaugurated on Wednesday, promising his people that the era of al Shabaab and other Islamist militant groups was over. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a dual U.S.-Somali citizen,…

Soldiers from the Waraba Battalion, an EU-trained Malian army battalion, walk outside their base in Gao July 8, 2013. Malian soldiers staged their first joint patrol on Thursday with members…

Britain will provide additional aid money to South Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of the country, and to Somalia, where there is a credible risk of famine,…

More than $4 billion is needed by the end of March to help nearly 20 million people who risk starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, United Nations Secretary…