Uganda has been under authoritarian rule for decades. Wine has doggedly challenged its leader, and this documentary shows the price he’s paid.

A group of soldiers claimed to have seized power in Niger. But President Mohamed Bazoum and his allies insist the coup could still be reversed.

President Mohamed Bazoum was one of the West’s most reliable partners in a volatile region threatened by militant extremists and prone to coups.

A new study offers clues to the mysteries of kimberlite eruptions, the source of most of the diamonds mined on Earth today.

As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia prepares to host African leaders at a summit, a collapsed grain deal and the uncertain fate of Wagner mercenaries have cast a shadow.

The presidency of the West African country said that members of the presidential guard were trying to rally the military in an “anti-republican move.” The president’s fate was unclear.

Algeria’s government said that 10 of the dead were soldiers who were trying to rescue people from the fires, which have raged for days in a forested coastal region.

In his first two months in office, President Bola Tinubu has ripped the Band-Aid off Nigeria’s ailing economy. Time will tell if it can heal, but for now, Nigerians are feeling the pain.

Morocco is the first North African and majority Arab nation to qualify for the Women’s World Cup. It’s hoping to pick up the baton its men’s team carried in Qatar.

Antigovernment protests over price hikes and new taxes have left at least 29 people dead in recent weeks, prompting the country’s news outlets to join together to issue a dire warning.

Tunisia has pushed African migrants to scorching no-man’s lands along its borders with little food and water. Under a deal with the European Union, Tunisia agreed to tighten border controls in exchange for aid.

In 1968, Father Doran, who had been in Nigeria as an educator, became the linchpin of one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history.

Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.

After the deadliest shipwreck in decades in the Mediterranean, E.U. officials will pay Tunisia to prevent migrants from setting to sea.

As war rages in Sudan, the United Nations said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies were responsible for killing at least 87 people in the western region of Darfur.

A powerful new European weather orbiter’s cameras capture lightning in near real-time at day or night across more than 80 percent of the world’s surface.

A light dusting of snow coated many parts of Johannesburg on Monday, driving children and adults to nearby parks and playgrounds.

Manuel Chang, the former finance minister of Mozambique, is at the center of a scandal that roped in American investors.

Testimonies sent to the International Criminal Court detail accusations of torture and abuse committed against hundreds of victims before and after the elections in 2021.

Fierce fighting has erupted in the city of Omdurman, across the Nile from the capital, Khartoum, in a desperate battle to control supply routes.