Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran
April 13, 2026Authorities say that a stampede at a popular mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens
April 12, 2026A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels hit a local market in northeastern Nigeria, killing over 100 civilians including children and injuring many others, a rights group and local media reported
April 12, 2026Votes have been cast in Benin where the country is choosing a successor to President Patrice Talon, who is stepping down after a decade in power
April 12, 2026UK forced to halt Chagos Islands deal after Trump criticism
April 11, 2026Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a sixth term, winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday's election
April 11, 2026British authorities have arrested a Sudanese man on suspicion of endangering life after four migrants died trying to cross the English Channel
April 10, 2026Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
April 10, 2026Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats
November 12, 2024Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II
April 10, 2026Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast
April 09, 2026China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people
April 08, 2026Congo will receive some deportees from the U.S. as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program
April 05, 2026A man has killed four children in a machete attack at a nursery school in Kampala, Uganda
April 02, 2026Congo has declared the end of a two-year mpox outbreak, which is believed to have caused over 2,200 deaths
April 02, 2026The Italian coast guard has found 19 people dead and rescued 58 from a dinghy filled with migrants near Lampedusa
April 01, 2026Congo has erupted in joy overnight after an extra-time goal against Jamaica sent the country back to the World Cup for the first time in more than half a century
April 01, 2026A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench
March 31, 2026Public hearings on proposed constitutional amendments in Zimbabwe have turned chaotic and violent
March 31, 2026Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been sworn in for a third term three months after a disputed election
March 30, 2026Violence has erupted in the central Haitian town of Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite as a powerful gang warred with a vigilante group local, regional officials confirmed to the Associated Press
March 30, 2026African soccer’s governing body has announced a raft of “changes and improvements” to its statutes and regulations as it deals with the fallout from a contentious Africa Cup of Nations final
March 29, 2026Senegal keeps celebrating its Africa Cup title even after African soccer officials stripped it away and awarded it to Morocco
March 28, 2026Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war
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