The 81-year-old former leader has been cleared to appear on the ballot as an opposition candidate in May’s parliamentary election. Unless the decision is reversed, he could become a kingmaker — or even president once again.

Russ Cook of Britain overcame danger in a year of running from South Africa to Tunisia.

Some of the victims were en route to a fair and others were fleeing for fear of being affected by a cholera outbreak, a local official said.

The Central African country is marking the anniversary of a monthslong rampage by militiamen that killed some 800,000 people.

Thirty years after a devastating genocide, Rwanda has made impressive gains. But ethnic divisions persist under an iron-fisted president who has ruled for just as long.

The legal problems of Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula expose the governing African National Congress to one of its biggest weaknesses — corruption allegations — ahead of a crucial national election.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

The law, which includes the death penalty as a punishment in some cases, has been strongly condemned, including by the United States.

Senegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, took the oath of office in Tuesday’s ceremony. Close behind him sat the popular opposition leader who had clinched the win.

Hundreds of newcomers from Africa have filled a shortage of workers in Rouyn-Noranda, creating a new community in a remote mining town.

Forty-four worshipers from Botswana, along with the driver, were killed when the bus plunged off an overpass into a rocky ravine.

The bus, which was carrying people to an Easter church service, went off a bridge in South Africa and plunged 165 feet into a ravine.

A human rights committee that examined a range of concerns called on Britain to abandon its controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

How did Bassirou Diomaye Faye, age 44, go from obscurity to a resounding win in Senegal’s presidential election? At the family homestead, one relative explained, “This family is not new to ruling.”

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who turned 44 on Monday, was little known until he received the backing of Ousmane Sonko, Senegal’s most formidable opposition politician. Both men were released from jail only 10 days ago.

The military of the West African nation, which is plagued by kidnappings largely driven by demands for ransom payments, said 137 children had been freed in the country’s north.

The top opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, is barred from running. So Sunday’s poll is widely seen as a choice between his handpicked candidate and the departing president’s designated successor.

Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has a reputation for provocative late-night tweets, has been working to position himself as heir apparent to his father, President Yoweri Museveni.

A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say.

Temperatures in the region rose above 40 degrees Celsius in February, with humidity pushing the heat index even higher.