A Nigerian swimmer named Akinrodoye Samuel sought to raise awareness of mental health issues by swimming the length of the longest bridge in Lagos, nearly 7.45 miles.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was inaugurated as president of Senegal on Tuesday, making the 44-year-old Africa's youngest elected leader; he was released from prison just weeks before the vote.
Julie Lenkoff, 80, suffered a medical emergency on a Norwegian Cruise, which "medically disembarked" her on an African island, but her family said the cruise line never contacted them.
An 8-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a bus crash in South Africa that killed at least 45 people. She is set to be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday.
A show at Morocco’s Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is one of the first exhibitions of Cuban art at an African museum, officials say.
Uganda's Constitutional Court has upheld a controversial anti-gay law, allowing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." The measure was signed last year.
Islamic State-linked rebels with the Allied Democratic Forces killed at least a dozen civilians in a raid near the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern border.
Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, warned lawmakers on Wednesday 'not to cling to power' following a proposed postponement of December's elections, originally supposed to be held in 2023.
An American tourist was killed by a bull elephant in Kafue National Park in Zambia after the titanic animal chased down a safari group's vehicle and flipped it with its tusks.
A veteran of the legendary Battle of Mogadishu received a Silver Star, the nation's third-highest award for valor, last week, three decades after his actions.
Gay rights activists are calling on the international community to levy more pressure against the Ugandan government over its strict homosexuality law.
In Rwanda, ongoing excavation efforts have uncovered over 1,000 human remains after three decades of government efforts to give genocide victims burials.
A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school.
Zimbabwe has launched a new currency, which will be called ZiG and goes into effect on Monday, to replace its previous one that lost more than 70% of its value since January.
10 activists were arrested by Egyptian authorities this week after participating in a pro-Palestinian protest; the country has 'largely banned' public protests.
The U.N. has begun distributing food in Darfur, a war-ravaged province in Sudan, for the first time in months; around 18 million people in Sudan face acute hunger.
A makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique’s northern coast on Sunday, killing at least 94 people. Officials said 26 people were missing following the incident.
Strong winds and heavy rain have left at least one person dead in South Africa's coastal Western Cape province, which includes Cape Town, officials reported Monday.
Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, said on Monday he was concerned by what he views as a failure by the U.S. to call the 1994 massacres a genocide against the country's Tutsis.
98 people have been confirmed dead in the Sunday sinking of an overcrowded ferry off the coast of Mozambique. An estimated 130 people were aboard the vessel.
A public hospital has laid off 100 doctors in Kenya's capitol of Nairobi who are taking part in an ongoing nationwide strike; the hospital has hired new doctors to replace those striking.
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake that killed thousands in Morocco's Atlas Mountains in September has not stopped some residents from honoring their traditions during Islam's holy month of Ramadan.
Nigerian brothers Samuel and Samson Ogoshi pleaded guilty for conspiring to extort minors on Wednesday, two years after Michigan teen Jordan DeMay died by suicide.
Mali's military junta has issued a decree suspending all political activity in the country until further notice in a purported bid to uphold public order.
A shootout between police and militiamen in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, left three people dead — a rare occurrence of regional violence spilling into the densely-populated capital.
Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, more commonly known as Bobrisky, has been sentenced to six months in prison under a rarely-enforced law against "spraying" money.
As Niger pulls away from close cooperation with the U.S. in counterterrorism efforts, the country has instead turned to Russia for help with fighting Islamic insurgents.
At least 13 people have been reported dead and some 15,000 displaced after heavy rains induced devastating floods across Kenya amidst this year's wet season.
Eight wild buffaloes were electrocuted after walking into low-lying power lines at the Lake Nakuru National Park in western Kenya, authorities reported Friday.
Ethiopian Jews are in dire need of international aid as enduring issues of insufficient medical resources and food scarcity continue to plague their enclaves in Gondar and Addis Ababa.
According to one group Christians are being persecuted, killed and displaced in 28 of Africa’s 54 countries. Nigeria is one country that has seen a massive rise in attacks against the faithful.
A software glitch in a weather application led alien and UFO sleuths to believe there was an underwater anomaly the size of Texas, generating 80-foot waves off Africa.
Civil lawsuits alleging that Khalifa Hifter, a Libyan military commander and U.S. citizen, killed civilians in the Libyan civil war was tossed out of U.S. court.
The British government is pushing forward with legislation to implement a controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, despite legal challenges.
Sudan faces a dire humanitarian crisis due to a yearlong war, with millions at risk of starvation. Diplomats are set to meet in Paris to address the issue.
The World Bank reports half of the world's poorest countries are getting poorer as the income gap between them and the world's richest countries grows for the first time this century.
Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia won the Boston Marathon on Monday, blazing through the course in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 17 seconds — the 10th-fastest time in the race's history.
A U.N.-backed gathering has reportedly raised some $630 million in funding for conflict-ravaged Ethiopia, but still fell far short of its billion-dollar goal.
A Caribbean ambassador has voiced the importance of creating an international tribunal to address reparations for transatlantic slavery and its enduring impacts.
A well-known Tunisian journalist was sentenced to six months in prison after being arrested for insulting an official. The government has increasingly silenced dissent.
Nigerian soldiers rescued a pregnant woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok, officials said.
Kenya's President William Ruto announced Thursday that the country's miltary chief Gen. Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash; Ruto declared 3 days of national mourning.
Tunde Onakoya, a chess champion and advocate for child education, is striving to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest continuous chess marathon.
The new world record for "longest chess marathon" was set in New York City this week when Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya played for 60 hours straight.
Britain's decision to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda has drawn criticism from humanitarian organizations. The UK government claims the move will deter illegal crossings.
Moroccan officials want to grow the country's aviation industry, as companies like Airbus and Boeing outsource production, design and maintenance to countries from Thailand to Mexico.
Botswana's foreign minister Lemogang Kwape said on Tuesday that the African country declined a request by the U.K. to take some of their "unwanted immigrants."
After the British Parliament approved a bill this week allowing the deportation of some migrants to Rwanda, the East African country said it is ready to receive them.
Amnesty International said in its annual report Wednesday that authorities in Togo have prevented civilians from protesting peacefully, and have repressed the media.
More than 2 million civilians, mostly children, have been displaced in the conflict between jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group and Burkina Faso's military.
Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as prime minister of Haiti as the country faces rampant gang violence that has killed or injured more than 2,500 people.
Heavy rains destroyed parts of a prison near Abuja, Nigeria, leading to the escape of over 100 inmates. The downpour damaged the facility's perimeter fence.
Lawyers representing Congo said they are questioning Apple about its knowledge of 'blood minerals' from the country's east that could be smuggled into the tech company's supply chains.
The Pentagon said Thursday that the majority of U.S. troops in Niger and Chad will be withdrawn as the U.S. works to restore agreements with the countries as to the American military's role there.
Somalia's government has taken action against members of its Danab commando unit for allegedly stealing rations donated by the U.S., according to officials.
A government spokesperson in Kenya said on Friday that at least 70 people have been killed by flooding and heavy rains in the East African country since mid-March.
Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio stations over their coverage of a report on the mass killing of civilians by the country's military junta.
The United Nations has said Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the city of El Fasher in the western Darfur region, and warned that 'an attack would have devastating consequences.'
The United States Marines Corps proved its resolve by leading a mercenary force on an incredible attack on Tripoli during the Barbary Wars on this day in history, April 27, 1805.
At least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in western Kenya, police have confirmed. Ongoing rains have caused flooding that has already killed nearly 100 people.
The reopening of schools in Kenya has been postponed by one week due to heavy rains and flooding. Over 100 schools have been flooded, according to officials.
The European Union has announced stricter visa requirements for Ethiopian nationals. EU countries will no longer be permitted to waive requirements, officials say.
Togolese voters headed to the polls for parliamentary elections that gauge support for a proposed new constitution that would give lawmakers the ability to choose the country's president.
Libyan authorities are demanding improvements after photographs leaked of the underground cell in Lebanon where the son of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been held for years.
Flash floods and a landslide have left at least 45 people dead and dozens of others missing in Kenya, reportedly triggered by a clogged railway tunnel.
A court in the Central African Republic has issued an international arrest warrant for former President François Bozizé over human rights abuses between 2009 and 2013.
An American general has said the U.S. military plans to return within a month to Chad to discuss revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based in the African country.
Tourists were evacuated by air Wednesday from the Maasai Mara national reserve in Kenya as devastating flash floods continued encroaching on the African nation.
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