MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA — Police in Nigeria say two teenage female suicide bombers have been shot dead by troops as they tried to sneak into the northeastern city of Maiduguri. Borno State police spokesman Victor Isuku…
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s power company says it may have to severely reduce hydroelectric production because of historically low levels in the Congo River. “We fear that if we don’t have enough water, we…
ANTANANARIVO — The death toll from Cyclone Enawo, which slammed into Madagascar this week, rose to 38 people from an initial figure of five, the country’s disaster management agency said. Enawo hit Madagascar’s vanilla-producing northeastern…
The World Health Organization says about half a million Africans die of cancer each year, or six percent of global cancer deaths annually. The leading cancers in Africa affect the breast, cervix and prostate, according…
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has revoked its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, citing in a letter submitted to the United Nations a recent court ruling that declared the withdrawal “unconstitutional and invalid.”…
CAIRO — The gritty, working-class neighborhood of Matariya in northeast Cairo brims with noise and poverty, a place where motorized rickshaws vie with donkey carts on narrow, trash-strewn streets. But this week, archaeologists began pulling…
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria returned home on Friday after spending seven weeks in Britain on a vacation that turned into an extended medical leave, with questions about his health and about the stability of…
ABUJA, NIGERIA — On his arrival at the Kaduna Airport, President Muhammadu Buhari was met by politicians and dignitaries who welcomed him home after a long stay in the United Kingdom, where he went for…
The son of boxing icon Muhammad Ali has been questioned at a U.S. airport for the second time in two months. Muhammad Ali Jr. was stopped at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport Friday, a day…
Kariobangi, Kenya – In Kariobangi, one of Nairobi’s toughest neighborhoods, a boxing academy is fighting to empower women and girls while teaching them their rights: to education, self-determination, economic independence, a decent standard of living,…