Africa

A military court in eastern Congo on Friday sentenced eight soldiers to death for cowardice and other crimes linked to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to contain violence...

The U.S. military is shifting its Iraq and Yemen airstrike operations out of the UAE and over to Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. That means moving surveillance planes,...

After the worst drought in decades, East Africa is now being pounded by heavy rains. At least 180 people have died in floods and landslides in since the rainy season...

On April 18, 1955, Indonesian President Sukarno took to the dais before a gathering unlike any that had ever been convened. “How terrifically dynamic is our time,” he exclaimed. “We...

M23 rebels have seized an African town crucial to the supply of minerals for smartphones. Rubaya, a key mining town for coltan in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. has been...

Tourists were evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve Wednesday after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains battered the country. Tourist...

United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers....

An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by...

The voices of some 50 elderly protesters are heard echoing in song across the grounds of ‘s Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, the commercial heart of South Africa. They are demanding justice...

An internationally backed court in the Central African Republic issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for the country’s exiled former President François Bozizé for human rights abuses from 2009 to...