South Sudan military has assumed control of the strategic Heglig oil field in neighboring Sudan under a rare agreement with both sides in Sudan’s civil…
A Kenyan High Court judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the government from sharing sensitive health data with the United States under a $2.5 billion bilateral…
Brumelda Zuma, a daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, was sworn in as a lawmaker Wednesday, filling the parliamentary seat left vacant by…
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured the strategic eastern Congolese city of Uvira on Wednesday, forcing Congolese troops to flee and displacing about 200,000 civilians, the United…
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced a former commander of Sudan’s feared Janjaweed militia to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes…
Israel is quietly deepening its engagement across the Horn of Africa, with the self-declared independent Somaliland emerging as a strategic partner in security, trade and…
Tanzania imposed a virtual lockdown on its major cities Tuesday, deploying police and soldiers in force and declaring all protests illegal as the nation marked…
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president accused Rwanda on Monday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement signed just five days earlier, as the Rwanda-backed M23…
Nigerian authorities said on Sunday they had secured the release of 100 children kidnapped last month from a Catholic school in the northern state of…
Somalia’s southwestern Jubaland region has declared full independence from the federal government, further weakening the country’s troubled federal structure. The announcement by Jubaland parliament speaker…