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Nigeria’s security forces failed to respond to several warnings that suspected Boko Haram extremists were on their way to a town where 110 schoolgirls were seized in a mass abduction last month, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday. The group cited security sources,...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Monday, as the two countries look to repair ties that were recently frayed over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia. At a joint press conference, al-Bashir and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah...

Kenyan officials said Friday that at least 15 people have drowned and scores of families have been displaced across the East African nation during two days of heavy rainfall that caused flooding in urban and rural areas. The deaths happened as flood and river waters swept through...

The U.N. Security Council demanded an immediate end to fighting in South Sudan on Thursday and threatened to consider an arms embargo and sanctions to prevent warring parties from violating a December cease-fire agreement. A U.S.-drafted resolution, adopted unanimously, also...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has met for the first time with the parents of 110 school girls who were abducted from their school three weeks ago. Buhari told the parents that his government believes it is safer to negotiate for the release of the girls than to attempt a...

Ethiopia’s state-affiliated broadcaster says that a bus plunged into a ditch, killing 38 people in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region. Fana Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that the bus veered off the road and went into the trench. It said an additional 10 people were...

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with South Sudan President Salva Kiir in the capital, Juba, Monday to encourage an end to the country’s civil war and to give assistance in health and education. South Sudan is well into its fifth year of fighting and the conflict, which...

Pope Francis rejected the branding of foreigners and poor people as enemies as he honored volunteers Sunday with a Catholic lay organization that helps Syrian war refugees reach Europe. The pontiff spent the afternoon with the Sant’Egidio Community, which has mediated peace...

South Sudan has suspended a United Nations radio station for allegedly refusing to comply with the country’s media laws, although the station has not yet been taken off the air. On Friday, the Media Authority, an independent body charged with regulating journalistic practices in...

The top U.S. diplomat and a top African official tried Thursday to move past President Donald Trump’s slur about Africa, deeming it a closed matter that need not be revisited. “I believe that this incident is of the past,” African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki said at a...