The senior national football team, Harambee Stars, is set to kick off preparations for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and Africa Nations C...
On February 17, eight years ago, Libyans rose up and launched a rebellion that led to the ouster of autocrat Col. Moammar Gaddafi. The high expecta...
A new United Nations report documents widespread and pervasive rape and sexual violence against women and girls, some as young as eight, in South Suda...
Power-strapped North Korea is exploring two ambitious alternative energy sources, tidal power and coal-based synthetic fuels, that could greatly impro...
A federal judge in Houston ordered a former Venezuelan oil minister this week to pay the owners of a defunct Houston oil company $1.4 billion in damag...
The United States has called on Europe to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which Washington pulled out of last year. At a two-day conferenc...
Experts predict the number of women who win seats in Nigeria’s Saturday elections is likely to fall below the existing 6 percent - already one of th...
Paris St Germain’s 2-0 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Tuesday showed that the French champions may finally have found, under coach...
When a crowd in Bambari, in the Central African Republic, accused Mahamat Nour Mamadou of belonging to a militia group tied to the country’s previou...
It was 6pm when an unusual rainbow-coloured boat, made of recycled plastic waste and discarded flip-flops (sandals) gathered from beaches and roadside...
"Sexist" data is making it harder to improve women's and girls' lives, the world's leading philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates said Tuesday in...
Women and girls will be able to use an emoji to chat about their periods from next month, which will help to end the shame around menstruation, a chil...
The U.N. special envoy to Yemen on Monday said the urgency of accessing grain stores trapped in a frontline position in the port city of Hodeidah was ...
Turkey has denounced Beijing's controversial mass "re-education" camps in China's western region of Xinjiang, calling them a "great shame for humanity...
President Uhuru Kenyatta was among world leaders who on Sunday vowed never to allow terrorist elements to distabilise any country in Africa. The le...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday offered the Taliban the possibility of opening an office in Afghanistan but the proposal was swiftly spurned b...
The United States should not rule out Russian military involvement in Venezuela, according to the new head of U.S. Southern Command. Speaking exclu...
The Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009,...
The head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said there is reason to be hopeful that the country's transitional government will succeed. D...
The Burkina Faso government claims to have killed 146 jihadists in the country's north this week, but Human Rights Watch says it believes some of the ...