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Ivory Coast's Jean Michael Seri (R) and Franck Kessie (L) fight for the ball with Guinea's Seydouba Soumah (C) during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying football match June 10, 2017. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP)

Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Zambia suffer shock losses

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Abuja (AFP) - Former African champions Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Zambia all lost ...

Investigations Reveal 'The True Story Behind The ‘...

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its D ...

Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, shown in this file photo taken on August 23, 2011 in the Libyan capital Tripoli, is said to have been freed after more than five years in captivity. By IMED LAMLOUM (AFP/File)

Kadhafi's son Seif 'set free' in Libya

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Tripoli (AFP) - Seif al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late depo ...

Guinea's players wearing tee-shirts with a picture of Cheick Tiote enter the stadium under a poster reading,

Late football star Tiote's body flown back to Ivor...

Monday, June 12, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - Cheick Tiote's body will arrive back in the Ivory Coast on Thurs ...

Pallbearers carry the coffin of football star Cheick Tiote during a funeral ceremony on June 18, 2017 in Abidjan. By Sia KAMBOU (AFP)

'Worthy son' Tiote laid to rest

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Abidjan (AFP) - Ivory Coast international Cheick Tiote, whose sudden death in Ch ...

Ivory Coast's Cheick Tiote, pictured in 2014, was capped 52-times and played in teh 2010 and 2014 World Cup. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

Africa Cup of Nations winner Tiote dies aged 30

Monday, June 5, 2017

London (AFP) - Ivory Coast international midfielder Cheick Tiote has died aged 3 ...

Khoi San community members in South Africa bury the

S.Africa buries 200-year-old 'spirit' of rebel chi...

Friday, June 16, 2017

Hankey (South Africa) (AFP) - South Africa buried the spirit of one of its fir ...

A protester in Tunis openly smokes a cigarette and holds a placard reading in French

Tunisians protest for right not to fast during Ram...

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Tunis (AFP) - Dozens of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday to demand the right to eat ...

Conflict-ravaged Libya has long been a stepping stone for migrants seeking a better life in Europe. By Abdullah ELGAMOUDI (AFP/File)

Eight migrants die as boat sinks off Libya

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Garabulli (Libya) (AFP) - At least eight migrants drowned when their Europe-boun ...

An armed group in Libya said on Facebook on June 10, 2017, it has freed Seif al-Islam who has been in custody since November 2011, pictured in 2014 answwering judges' questions in Tripoli. By MAHMUD TURKIA (AFP/File)

Libyan group says it has freed Kadhafi son Seif al...

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Tripoli (AFP) - An armed group in Libya said on Facebook Saturday it has freed S ...

Efforts of Red Cross volunteers to properly bury highly contagious bodies potentially averted as many as 10,452 Ebola cases. By ZOOM DOSSO (AFP/File)

Ebola burial teams dramatically reduced West Afric...

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Geneva (AFP) - Red Cross volunteers prevented a significant number of Ebola case ...

Thousands of migrants are making the perilous crossing across Mediterranean Sea -- from Libya to southern Europe. By ARIS MESSINIS (AFP)

Italy arrests Nigerian torturer dubbed 'Rambo'

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Rome (AFP) - A Nigerian human trafficker known as Rambo has been arrested in I ...

Since 2014, more than 1.6 million people have arrived by sea while 13,500 have died on the way. By MAHMUD TURKIA (AFP/File)

More than 900 migrants rescued off Libya

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Tripoli (AFP) - The Libyan coastguard has rescued more than 900 African and Asia ...

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu told ECOWAS head Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: 'Israel is coming back to Africa'. By Zoom DOSSO (AFP)

Netanyahu woos West African leaders at Liberia sum...

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Monrovia (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday joined West ...

Government data received Thursday showed that arrivals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen were down by nearly half in March and April from a year ago. By Drew Angerer (GETTY/AFP/File)

US arrivals plunge from 6 countries hit by Trump t...

Friday, June 9, 2017

Washington (AFP) - Arrivals in the United States from the six mostly Muslim coun ...

A vehicle carrying migrants travels through Agadez, Niger, en route to Libya in June 2015. By ISSOUF SANOGO (AFP/File)

44 migrants, including babies, die of 'thirst' in ...

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Niamey (AFP) - At least 44 migrants, including women and babies, were found dead ...

Spain has now rescued more than 600 people from the Mediterranean in less than a week. By Marcos Moreno (AFP)

Spain rescues more than 200 migrants from Med

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Madrid (AFP) - Spanish coastguards rescued more than 200 migrants on Saturday as ...

Ghanaian MPs wanting to make private visits to the US must now apply like all other applicants. By Chris Stein (AFP/File)

US strips Ghana lawmakers of visa privileges

Friday, June 23, 2017

Accra (AFP) - Former presidents, lawmakers and senior government officials in Gh ...

A doctor takes pictures of a man's skin condition for diagnosis through an online dermatology platform in Mali. By Sebastien RIEUSSEC (AFP)

New app helps Mali skin doctors reach out to dista...

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Bamako (AFP) - In Mali, where skin conditions are widespread and skin doctors ar ...

Zimbabwe's Knowledge Musona (C), pictured in 2016, was the hat-trick hero against Liberia. By JEKESAI NJIKIZANA (AFP/File)

Zimbabwe's Musona bags treble while Ghana hit five

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Johannesburg (AFP) - Knowledge Musona celebrated his first match as Zimbabwe cap ...

Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in northeast Nigeria but the eight-year Islamist insurgency has devastated activities, causing a desperate lack of food and sky-high prices. By AMINU ABUBAKAR (AFP/File)

Boko Haram food crisis: farmers call to return hom...

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violen ...

Masalanabo Modjadji is South Africa's only female traditional ruler, with claims of mystical rainmaking powers. By (AFP)

S.Africa's pre-teen queen with 'rainmaking' powers

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Midrand (South Africa) (AFP) - She is a 12-year-old schoolgirl who aspires to be ...

The Italian mother of London attacker Youssef Zaghba says that she believes her son was radicalised by a combination of online propaganda and contacts in London. By Adrian DENNIS (AFP/File)

London and internet radicalised my son: attacker's...

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Fagnano (Italy) (AFP) - The Italian mother of London attacker Youssef Zaghba say ...

A Libyan Airlines aircraft flies over Tripoli International Airport, after forces belonging to the Libyan unity government took control of the facility on June 1, 2017. By MAHMUD TURKIA (AFP)

Libya unity forces take control of Tripoli airport

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Tripoli (AFP) - Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government on Thursday t ...

AIF Announces The Top 10 Nominees For Innovation P...

Friday, June 16, 2017

Thursday, 15 June 2017, Accra, Ghana ndash; The African Innovation Foundatio ...

French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin poses with the casting of a Homo Sapiens skull discovered in Morocco. The human species roamed Africa 300,000 years ago, according to new research that pushes back human origins by 100,000 years.. By PATRICK KOVARIK (AFP)

The 'obsession' that changed human history

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Paris (AFP) - An obsession with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed ...

Journalists watch from a press room in Tripoli Seif al-Islam (C), the son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, answering his judges' questions by video conference from a prison the western Libyan city of Zintan, on May 11, 2014. By MAHMUD TURKIA (AFP/File)

Seif al-Islam: rise and fall of Kadhafi's heir app...

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Tripoli (AFP) - Seif al-Islam, whose release was reported on Saturday, was the l ...

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