The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses ...

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo (AP) – Just a few weeks ago, rangers and militiamen were engaging in gunfights in Africa’s oldest national park. Cannons boomed as Congolese army troops shelled rebels.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opens on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some of the long-standing problems that have afflicted the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In South Africa ’s oldest township, volunteers in wetsuits jump into the thigh-deep water of the polluted Jukskei River to untangle a net that’s designed to trap garbage but ...

More than 250 suspected cybercriminals and digital scammers have been arrested across 14 different African nations in a mass operation conducted across the continent by Interpol, the international ...

• Top entrepreneurs, creatives and thought leaders from the worlds of politics, economics and fashion gathered in London on November 3 for CNN International’s first Global Perspectives live event, ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso's junta leader Capt.