Africa

The coup leaders said in an announcement on Gabon’s state TV that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had been “unanimously” designated president of a transitional committee to lead the country.

The rebels attacked the women as they gathered firewood in the Jere district of Borno, which is the epicenter of a 14-year-long insurgency launched by the extremist group known as Boko Haram

The boat was found with seven bodies off the Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde, off the coast of Senegal.

A coalition of West African nations said on Thursday it had decided to deploy a “standby force” aimed at restoring constitutional order in Niger after its Sunday deadline to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum expired.

The UN children’s agency says about 300 children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside.

When Shimirimana ‘Shim’ Eliya gets his degree at Texas A&M University Department of Dental Hygiene on Friday, it will be the end of a long road that started half a world away in Africa.

Prevention is the best medicine and that’s why the soon-to-be graduate you’re about to meet wanted to be a dental hygienist. The journey took him from a refugee camp in Africa to the Texas A&M University Department of Dental Hygiene in Dallas.

Several main roads to the affected area have been made impassable by the rains, hampering the relief efforts.

Learn about Intuba and why they’re on a mission to bring love, hope and water to African communities in need. MORE: Intuba.org

Wherever Vice President Kamala Harris went in Africa on her just-completed trip, her appearances were treated like a homecoming.

Nigeria holds presidential and parliamentary elections amid concerns of bank note shortage and potential violence.

The World Health Organization convened an urgent meeting to evaluate vaccine candidates after nine deaths and 16 suspected cases were reported.

The repatriation is part of a worldwide movement by cultural institutions to return artifacts that were often looted during the colonial era.

Sacks of the donkey male genitals were seized at the international airport in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, Sambo Dangaladima, the Nigeria Customs Service area commander, told reporters.

A wealthy dentist accused of fatally shooting his wife at the end of an African safari has been found guilty of murder and mail fraud.

Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa’s climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday.

A big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years.

The World Health Organization has declared Ghana’s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.

The wealthy dentist blurted out to his longtime lover that “I killed my f—g wife for you!,” a U.S. prosecutor told a jury in opening statements of the dentist’s murder trial.

In southern Kenya, a group of women called Team Lioness are working to protect wildlife on the Maasai land around Amboseli National Park — and, at the same time, expanding the boundaries of what is expected from Maasai women.
(By NBCLX Contributors Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville)