Nigeria postponed presidential elections planned for Saturday by one week, citing a lack of proper materials at all voting locations. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced the postponement 5 hours…
Thirty-eight miners are feared dead after water from a collapsed dam flooded two mines in Zimbabwe. While panning for gold, 34 miners went underground at Silver Moon Mine and four…
Nearly 100 children have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently in what’s now documented as the second-worst spread of the deadly disease. Save Our Children, a…
The U.S. State Department moved Wednesday to cut security aid to Cameroon after accusations surfaced that its military is responsible for a long list of human rights violations against its…
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya has issued a warning that terrorist groups may target Westerners in the capital of Nairobi and other areas in the country. The warning was issued…
A boatload of Haitian migrants sank over the weekend near the Bahamas and killed nearly 30, authorities said. The vessel went down near the Bahamas island of Abaco and at…
Death sentences were handed down in Cairo Monday to eight people convicted of attempting to assassinate Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2014. The eight were among 292 people, alleged…
More than 40 mummies from 305 to 20 B.C. have been discovered in burial chambers in Minya, the desert province in Egypt. Hundreds of media and government officials, including ambassadors…
The International Criminal Court ordered the conditional release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former political leader Charles Blé Goudé on Friday. The announcement came two weeks after…
Some 30,000 Nigerian fled the city of Rann over the weekend into Cameroon after militant group Boko Haram ramped up violence, according to a United Nations agency Tuesday. UNHCR, the…
