africa

Human rights groups are urging UNESCO to abandon a prize named after Africa’s longest-ruling dictator, one they say could be…

Tunisia's new President Moncef Marzouki is preparing for a major drive to unify the Maghreb on his first foreign tour…

DAKAR, Senegal — College students set fire to a bus and threatened to march on Senegal's presidential palace on Wednesday,…

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb has called on the West to apologize to Egypt for having colonized Africa. In a…

Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled…

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr's recent tour of Nile Basin countries reflects Egypt's interest in continuing political dialogue with these…

With the shock of 2008 financial crisis continuing to reverberate and more recent sovereign debt crises threatening European countries, investors…

  There are good reasons why it is hard to assemble a credible anthology of African short stories. There are…

Rising global temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns could affect water flows on Africa's mighty Nile and Limpopo rivers, an agricultural…

The search for the world's first malaria vaccine received a boost with the release of early results from a major clinical…