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Abdel Fattah was prominent in anti-Mubarak revolt * Activists say Egypt is a police state again * Islamists and secular activists being rounded up (Adds...

Nearly 500 South African miners who were trapped underground have been rescued. All 486 miners who were trapped underground at a gold mine in South...

Rescue workers managed to bring to the surface 330 of the about 500 miners trapped by a fire at Kusasalethu Gold mine, near Carletonville, Harmony...

  By Nathan Were In the last decade, at least a dozen African leaders have had their time in office extended through constitutional amendments. The leaders...

Credit: flickr.com/Paul Cross     South Africa’s ailing economy is expected to take a further beating as the country battles its worst power outages in seven years...

Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said, a significant...

“There is no ‘family gathering’ today that is any different from any other day since (Bobbi Kristina) has been in the hospital — the family...

Nigerian warplanes bombarded training camps and caches of weapons and vehicles belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeasterly Samibisa forest on Thursday,...

Nigeria May Devalue Naira Against Dollar high RiseNigeria’s central bank abandoned weekly foreign-exchange auctions, a key part of managing the local currency, effectively devaluing the...

The 41st Annual People’s World African American History Month Celebrations in Hartford and New Haven, Conn., will feature remarks by guest speaker Zenobia Thompson, long-time...

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi, deposed by the army in 2013, will not stand trial for incitement to murder over deadly protests that followed his...

The DHL Africa as One team, who departed from Cape Town in October 2014 in three Land Rover Discoveries, have completed almost a third of...

Morsi, 10 others face charges including espionage A new trial began on Sunday for Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, seen in this 2014 photo. He...

President Hassan Rouhani in a message on Sunday felicitated Zambia new president Edgar Lungu on election victory. President Rouhani expressed hope that relations between Tehran...

Italy closed its embassy in Libya on Sunday due to the worsening conflict there and stepped up its call for a U.N. mission to help...

Congo’s president on Sunday condemned a decision by the United Nations to withdraw its support from a joint military offensive against a rebel group because...

South Sudan’s cabinet on Friday postponed elections and extended President Salva Kiir’s powers for two years, the information minister said, apparently sinking a peace agreement...

Islamic State pictures show 21 kidnapped Egyptian Christians in orange jumpsuits Relatives of Egyptian Coptic Christian workers who were kidnapped in the Libyan city of...

The main gate of the town of Diffa in Niger. Photo: AFP Niamey: Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the south-eastern Niger town...

Baher Mohamed is the 30-year-old Al Jazeera journalist whose Egyptian citizenship prevented him an equal chance for freedom like his co-defendants Mohamed Fahmy and Peter...