Africa

Several nonprofits including Friends of the Earth France sued oil major TotalEnergies in a French civil court on Wednesday, seeking to obtain environmental documents...

German prosecutors arrested a German-Rwandan national on suspicion of being an accomplice to genocide and 25 counts of murder during the 1994 genocide against...

Advocacy groups filed a complaint on behalf of people deported from the United States to Ghana by the Trump administration with the regional bloc...

Minister of Health and Population of the Central African Republic (CAR) Pierre Somse has declared a cholera outbreak after 24 deaths from the disease...

The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has elevated its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the...

Egypt has granted four state-owned companies preliminary listings as part of the government's privatisation programme, the cabinet said on Sunday. Three are from the petroleum...

NAIROBI - Uganda's military chief, who is also the president's son, said on Sunday that he had ordered the closure of two leading media...

PARIS - France said on Saturday that it was considering taking reciprocal measures after Burkina Faso broke off diplomatic relations. Burkina Faso said on Friday...

The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it approved about $348.5 million (R6 billion) in funding for the Democratic Republic of Congo after completing...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice over its role in the long-running conflict...