Somali officials say the United States has deported 84 Somalis, including four women, back to their home country.
Two planes carrying the Somalis arrived at Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport on Friday.
A spokesman for Somalia's Security Ministry, Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim,...
Unidentified attackers raided the headquarters of a five-nation African military taskforce in central Mali on Friday, local and UN sources said.
There were no immediate details on the scale or impact of the assault on the base in the town...
The forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Friday rejected any foreign military presence in the south of the country to stem migration, after EU leaders struck a deal to deter Mediterranean crossings.
The bloc's leaders agreed to consider setting...
An Egyptian court on Thursday has sentenced 27 persons to life in prison over joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and inciting violence, official news agency MENA reported.
Life sentence in Egypt means 25 years in jail.
The case dates back...
Kenyan and visiting United States investors on Thursday signed agreements valued at 100 million U.S. dollars during a day-long conference in Nairobi.
The deals agreed upon cover both public and private sector investments and will mostly be channeled into Big...
Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar declared victory on Thursday against rivals including local fighters and Islamists in the city of Derna, the last bastion of opposition against him in the east of the country.
Taking Derna, a city of 125,000 about...
A Moroccan court sentenced on Thursday local journalist Hamid El Mahdaoui, who covered protests over economic and social problems in the northern Rif region, to three years in prison, his sister and lawyer said.
El Mahdaoui, who was arrested in July...
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki will meet soon as the two nations try to resolve one of Africa’s most intractable military stand-offs, state-affiliated media Fana said, citing the foreign minister.
A high-level Eritrean...
Exiled former cabinet minister and nephew to former president Robert Mugabe, Patrick Zhuwao has blasted British Prime Minister Theresa May and her government for assisting President Emmerson Mnangagwa in what he called "a plot to unleash a blood bath"...
President Paul Kagame has said that Africa should not be a dumping ground for used products from developed markets.
President Kagame was speaking Wednesday morning at the launch of Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda located in the Special Economic Zone.
The German...
