Africa

    BLANTYRE, MALAWI — The U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF, has handed over lifesaving supplies worth about $300,000 to support Malawi’s fight against a cholera […]

    ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The foreign ministers of France and Germany have voiced support for Africa to receive two permanent seats on the […]

    LALIBELA, ETHIOPIA — “I was able to come this year because there is peace,” says Asme Mamo as he joins crowds of worshippers […]

    MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called on young al-Shabab fighters he says are “brainwashed” to surrender to the government […]

      BOSASO, SOMALIA — At least 20 people have been killed in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in clashes between anti-government protesters and […]

.   BAMAKO, MALI — A court in Mali has sentenced 46 Ivorian troops whose detention in Mali sparked a diplomatic row between the two […]

.   CAIRO, EGYPT — A vessel carrying at least 700 migrants was intercepted off the eastern coast of Libya, the coast guard said. It […]

.   KAMPALA, UGANDA — Ugandan police fired tear gas and arrested more than 30 opposition supporters attending a Friday prayer rally organized by musician-turned-politician […]

    GABORONE, BOTSWANA — A Botswana court has issued an arrest warrant for former President Ian Khama, who is facing 14 charges ranging from […]

.   NAIROBI, KENYA — Witnesses in the towns of Axum and Shire, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, say some Eritrean forces withdrew Friday. It is […]

    CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — One of three white South African men accused of racially attacking two young Black South Africans on Christmas […]