Patrice Carteron on Sunday begins a quest to become only the third coach to win the CAF Champions League and the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup. Tunisian Faouzi Benzarti and Ghanaian Cecil Jones Attuquayefio achieved the feat and Frenchman Carteron led Congolese club TP Mazembe to the 2015 Champions League title. The 48-year-old former def ...

UN Security Council ambassadors will travel to Guinea-Bissau this month to press for peaceful elections that could pave the way to a lifting of international sanctions, the council president said Friday. The West African country has been under UN sanctions since 2012 when military officers staged a coup just two weeks before elections, the lates ...

The number of people who died when two migrant boats foundered after setting sail from Djibouti to Yemen has risen to 58, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. The overloaded boats went down on Tuesday about half an hour after setting sail from Djibouti's northeastern coastline. Speaking to AFP, Lalini Veerassamy, ...