The draw for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations takes place in Cairo on Friday in a country that was only handed the task of organising the tournament in January. Egypt faces a race against time to be ready for the June 21 kick-off. Supposed to be in Cameroon... Egypt, seven-time winners of this competition, stood in for Cameroon after the cen ...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan acirc; euro; trade;s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events in Algeria and Sudan have been un ...

South Africa's ruling ANC has blocked a plan by a faction within its youth league to burn a book critical of the party's secretary general. The Free State Youth League disrupted the launch of the book because they claim that the allegations of corruption against Ace Magashule are false. In his book, Gangster State: unravelling Ace Magashule's ...

Dinar Tchere is fighting time and the sun, and he fears he may be losing. This morning, the health worker is expected in a remote village of eastern Chad, where he will administer the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to poor children. But he's behind schedule -- and there is limited time before his enemy, the blistering Sahelian heat, will ...