Morocco steps into the spotlight this week with the Africa Cup of Nations as newly built stadiums become an arena to test ...

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.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

• 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, ...