Mozambique holds local elections Wednesday that could reveal cracks in the country's peace process after the ruling Frelimo party was accused of violence and intimidation during the campaign. The main opposition Renamo party, which has maintained an armed wing since the end of the country's civil war, is running in the municipal vote for the fir ...

Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini claimed growing support in the EU for his hardline immigration policies as he called Tuesday for French leader Emmanuel Macron to stop insulting him over the vexed issue. The remarks came as international interior ministers met to discuss the migrant crisis in the French city of Lyon, where EU membe ...

Pope Francis will visit Madagascar next year, the island nation's cardinal Desire Tsarahazana said on Tuesday. He will come to us in 2019, Tsarahazana told journalists at the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke however declined to confirm the visit but said it was being considered. ...

Women everywhere are sharing stories of sexual harassment and gender inequality but men still aren't really listening, Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the Frankfurt book fair Tuesday, urging men to read books by women. All over the world today women are speaking up. Their stories are still not really heard, Adic ...

Nearly 400 tonnes of fake medicines have been seized over two years in Ivory Coast, whose main city Abidjan is a West African haven for counterfeit drugs, the health ministry said Tuesday. Counterfeit medicine is the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world's poorest continent, according to the World Health ...

The ruling party in Sao Tome and Principe emerged victorious in a weekend election but lost its majority in the small African island nation, according to initial results, as hundreds demonstrated against potential poll fraud but were dispersed by riot police. In power since 2014, the Independent Democratic Action party (ADI) won Sunday's poll, s ...

Madagascar's election race officially opened on Monday with all three recent presidents launching their campaigns ahead of the November 7 vote, which follows months of political tensions. The Indian Ocean island suffers dire poverty and relies on foreign aid. It was rocked between April and June by protests in the main square of the capital Anta ...

Mozambique holds local elections Wednesday in a vote that could test progress in the country's peace talks after the ruling Frelimo party was accused of violence and intimidation during the campaign. The main opposition Renamo party, which has maintained an armed wing since the end of the country's civil war, is running in the municipal polls fo ...

Africa 39;s richest man Aliko Dangote has said he needs 38 visas to travel within the continent on his Nigerian passport. Many European nationals, meanwhile, waltz into most Africans countries visa-free. African nations were supposed to scrap visa requirements for all African citizens by 2018. It was a key part of the African Union (AU) vis ...

Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is unprecedented in scale, the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster. Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) -- enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of d ...

Deep inside a forest, sweating men haul earth out of rough excavation holes and carry it in bags on their backs to a stream. Then they sift for the small, red stones that could make their fortune -- miners say they have sold single rubies for thousands of dollars, many times the local monthly wage which is typically under $200. In northern Mo ...

Health officials have detected three cases of polio in southern Niger, near the border with Nigeria, the health ministry said Friday, just months after a major UN vaccination operation. Experts from Niger, the World Health Organization and the UN's children agency UNICEF have already arrived in the area to investigate. Polio is a highly infec ...

The United Nations has detained one of its peacekeepers suspected of sexually abusing minors in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN's MINUSCA mission there said Friday. The latest alleged incident was just the latest in a string of cases implicating the blue helmets. The UN had identified the suspect, a Mauritanian national, and placed ...

Namibia will expropriate land owned by foreign absentee landlords and will redefine fair compensation in the coming months, the countryâ s president said Friday. President Hage Geingob made the promise at the conclusion of the south African nation's national conference. Current landowners must make more land available for sale and not only ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday congratulated Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad after the two jointly won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In defending the victims of sexual violence in conflict, they have defended our shared values, he said in a statement. Guterres noted Murad's work as a goodwill ...

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was operating on Friday when he learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, as crowds at his Panzi hospital erupted into ecstatic celebrations. In a video posted on the Facebook page of the hospital he founded in eastern DR Congo in 1999, co-workers and admirers can be seen swarming around the 63-year-old doctor afte ...

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict, Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen sai ...

Faced with the only chance to save a child's life, doctors in South Africa have performed a medical first -- transplanting part of the liver from a HIV-positive mother into her HIV-negative child, it was announced Thursday. The doctors at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg revealed that one year after the operation, the child may no ...

Authorities in Guinea Bissau have confirmed to the BBC that about sixty people are missing after a boat they were travelling on sunk. The incident happened after the wooden boat was hit by a storm off the coast of the West African country. The boat has since been recovered as the search for its occupants believed to be migrants continue. H ...

Morocco's navy rescued 37 of its citizens off the country's coast on Wednesday, as they were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the armed forces said. The migrants were saved from their partially-inflated rubber dinghy, which was struggling in unfavourable meteorological conditions , Morocco's military said in a statement. After be ...