Niamey (AFP) - Twenty-four West African migrants were rescued and dozens more feared dead after traffickers deserted the ...

Lyon (AFP) - Chelsea forward Bertrand Traore has joined Lyon for 10 million euros ( 8.8m, $11.2m) on a five-year deal, ...

Rabat (AFP) - Moroccan security forces clashed Monday with demonstrators in Al-Hoceima, activists and witnesses said, a ...

Montpellier (France) (AFP) - Giant Montpellier striker Steve Mounie is on the verge of completing a transfer to English ...

Brussels (AFP) - The UN food agency's director urged the European Union on Monday to help raise the $1 billion needed ov ...

Stockholm (AFP) - A Swede who had been held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011 has been freed, the Swedish governmen ...

Nairobi (AFP) - Tanzania has threatened to arrest and deport those campaigning for gay rights and de-register organisati ...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco's king has rebuked ministers over delays to a development programme meant to pump investment into ...

Sochi (Russia) (AFP) - Timo Werner netted twice as Germany set up a Confederations Cup semi-final against Mexico with a ...

Paris (AFP) - Chad President Idriss Deby said Sunday his country had been irresponsible in striking oil for cash deals ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Former South Africa forward and coach Nick Mallett hailed the Springboks for completing a 3-0 Test ...

Accra (AFP) - Agyei Douglas is a farmer who grows vegetables near Kumasi in Ghana's central Ashanti region. He used to s ...

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) - At the back of Mandisa Zwane's typical yellow plaster-clad Soweto house is a bustling hive ...

Bamako (AFP) - The debris of the jihadist attack is still scattered for all to see: broken tea cups, charred mobile phon ...

Bamako (AFP) - Mali's government and armed groups which signed a 2015 peace deal have relaunched talks aimed at speeding ...

Madrid (AFP) - Spanish coastguards rescued more than 200 migrants on Saturday as they attempted to make the perilous sea ...

The Secretariat of the All Africa Students Union (AASU) is deeply saddened by the news of the demise of Sir Ketumle M ...

26 June 2017, Geneva ndash; ldquo;You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you ...

Gaborone (Botswana) (AFP) - Sir Ketumile Masire, Botswana's second post-independence leader who is largely credited with ...

Brussels (AFP) - EU countries have fallen far short of their duty to an African economic development fund designed to he ...

Nairobi (AFP) - Tanzania President John Magufuli said students who become pregnant should not be allowed to finish their ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Coach Allister Coetzee, defence specialist Brendan Venter and skipper Warren Whiteley and his Golde ...

Accra (AFP) - Former presidents, lawmakers and senior government officials in Ghana will no longer have special privileg ...

Gaborone (Botswana) (AFP) - Botswana's former president Sir Ketumile Masire, the southern African country's second post- ...

Dakar (AFP) - As a girl, Karelle Vignon-Vullierme loved eating the Beninese dishes her mother cooked but never bothered ...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Having sealed the three-Test series with two convincing triumphs, South Africa want to beat France ...