The EU's diplomatic chief on Monday welcomed US President Donald Trump's announcement that he is ready to remove Sudan from a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would remove Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list after Sudan pays 335 million US dollars to American victims.
Egypt officially reopened on Saturday tens of thousands of schools for millions of students across the country to start the new academic year while implementing precautionary measures against the COVID-19.
More than 5,000 seal pups had been found dead at Pelican Point beach in Namibia's coastal town of Walvis Bay, NGO Ocean Conservation Namibia (OCN) said on Wednesday.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa called for calm on Monday, hoping to tamp down rising racial tension in his country following months of protests by white farmers over a spike in deadly attacks.
Kenya commenced phased reopening of basic learning institutions on Monday amid concern over a spike in COVID-19 infections.
At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official said.
Around 40 people armed with fireworks and steel bars besieged a police station outside Paris early Sunday, authorities said, prompting new calls for tougher government action after a string of attacks on France's security forces.
India on Sunday became the second country globally, after the United States, to have over 7 million COVID-19 cases.
A former Cairo university student appeared in court on Saturday charged with blackmail and indecent assault of at least three women in a closely watched case prompted by social media that opened up a rare public debate on sex crimes.
A farmer plants beetroots in a nursery at a farm near Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Oct. 8, 2020. A group of Namibian farmers are changing the face of farming in the normally infertile soils of the desert that characterizes the Southern African country through the use of biochar as a form of natural fertilizer. (Photo by Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua)
A Chinese envoy on Thursday called on Malians, with the help of the international community, to advance transition in the country.
A group of Chinese medical experts, who worked in the front line of the fight against the COVID-19 in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak in China, arrived in Angola on Wednesday night to exchange experience with local professionals and aid the country's fight against the pandemic.
Passenger numbers and cargo volumes on Kenya's standard gauge railway (SGR) trains maintained a steady climb in August, pointing to increased demand for the service following the reopening of the country as COVID-19 cases declined.
The Sudanese government on Saturday signed a comprehensive peace deal with opposition groups in the South Sudanese capital Juba to end decades of conflict in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan regions.
Hiwot Tesfaye, a diaspora-based Ethiopian, is excited to celebrate Irreecha festival, an annual thanksgiving event celebrated by millions of Ethiopians annually, for the first time in her home country.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases in Africa reached 1,497,391 as of Saturday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
The population of whale sharks in Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park, the only home for the whale sharks in the East African nation, has increased to 206 in December 2019 from about 100 in 2012, according to a report published on Thursday by the WWF Tanzania.