Algeria bars France from wheat import tender as relations sour

Algeria excluded French companies from a wheat import tender this week and required that participating firms did not offer French-origin…

78 drown after boat capsizes in Congo’s Lake Kivu, provincial governor says

At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of…

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging…

The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who is accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and…

It was supposed to do away with colonial-era homophobia but an overhaul of India’s 160-year-old penal code has instead sparked…

A fire at a primary boarding school in central Kenya has killed 17 students, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.…

Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died, hospital officials said on Thursday, days after she was doused in petrol…

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey wanted to deepen its ties with Egypt on natural gas and nuclear energy, after…

More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were…

In eight years of working as a taxi driver in Kenya’s capital, Judith Chepkwony has never seen business this bad.…