Conakry (AFP) - Authorities in Guinea said Tuesday that they had found at least 19 bodies believed to have washed up from neighbouring Sierra Leone following catastrophic flooding and mudslides there. Some 500 people died and more than 800 were reported missing after the disaster that struck Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on August 13-14, when ...

Lusaka (AFP) - Zambia 39;s main opposition leader on Tuesday vowed to forgive his political opponents and not seek revenge following four months in jail for allegedly failing to give way to the presidential motorcade. Hakainde Hichilema addressed a prayer meeting two weeks after his release from prison telling thousands of worshippers he ...

Berlin (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for an extension of EU border controls in the passport-free Schengen area beyond a planned end in November. Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and non-EU Norway introduced the ID checks in 2015 and have been allowed to repeatedly prolong them at set intervals in response to a massiv ...

Paris (AFP) - Fighting Islamist terrorism is France's top foreign policy priority, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, vowing to make his country a leading power in an unstable, increasingly polarised world. Providing security for our citizens means that the fight against Islamist terrorism is our first priority, Macron told some 200 Fre ...

Arusha (Tanzania) (AFP) - A Senegalese chef is one step closer to turning an ancient grain found in his country -- gluten-free and bursting with nutrients and amino acids -- into the next trendy superfood. Pierre Thiam, one of Africa's best-known chefs, told the TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania on Monday night of his dream to see fonio turn ar ...