At least 34 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Yemen capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organisation for Migration said.

CAIRO—Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province of Luxor. Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a cafe in Somalia’s city of Baidoa on Saturday, killing at least four people and wounding more than ...

Chad's interior ministry says it has arrested several people after uncovering a plot to assassinate prominent political figures and bomb polling stations.

YENAGOA, Nigeria—More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, ...

ACCRA—At least 80 dolphins and large numbers of fish have washed up dead on beaches near Ghana‘s capital Accra since Friday, prompting investigations by the authorities. The cause of death was not yet clear. A ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Simultaneous large explosions were heard in and around two Somali army bases on Saturday, with the military confirming that at least nine staffers were killed ...

CAIRO—All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March had passed through the canal by Saturday, ...

CAIRO—Egypt’s Suez Canal must move quickly to upgrade its technical infrastructure if it is to avoid future shipping disruption, shipping industry sources said, as the major ...

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is around 91 percent effective at preventing the disease, they said on Thursday.

DAKAR—The terms of China’s loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritize repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt—Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway ...

Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family has passed away in a Kenyan hospital.

The stranding of a container ship in the Suez Canal has created disruptions in the global shipping industry that could take possibly months to clear.

SUEZ, Egypt—Salvage teams on Monday freed a colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal, ending a crisis that had clogged one ...

CAIRO, Egypt—The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week has been re-floated, Inchcape Shipping Services said on Monday. The ship is currently being secured, ...

SUEZ, Egypt—Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, ...

Five people were killed and 24 injured when a Cairo apartment building collapsed in the early hours of Saturday, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.

Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania—Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane sitting on the tarmac at the international airport in Nouakchott and threatened ...

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the blocked Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course.

Two trains collided in southern Egypt, apparently after someone activated the emergency brakes, killing at least 32 people and leaving at least 66 injured.

PARIS—France will reopen its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli next Monday to show its support for the North African country’s new authorities, President Emmanuel Macron ...

BARCELONA, Spain—A 2-year-old girl from Mali who was rescued from a boat carrying illegal immigrants near Spain’s Canary Islands and hospitalized in critical condition has died, ...

Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine was arrested Monday while leading a protest against the detention of many of his supporters after the presidential election.

MAIDUGURI—Islamic terrorists have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and civilian militia sources said on Sunday. ...