Nigeria is set to enforce sweeping new tax laws on January first, President Bola Tinubu has confirmed, brushing aside criticism...

More than a year after he was detained, Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been denied bail by the country’s...

President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday it was auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to detect fraud that...

Tens of thousands of Somalis took to the streets across the country on Tuesday to protest Israel’s recognition of Somaliland,...

Ivory Coast has signed a major bilateral health agreement with the United States aimed at strengthening the country’s health system...

Police in Uganda said they have detained a prominent human rights activist as long-serving President Yoweri Museveni's government widens its...

Mali and Burkina Faso have said they are imposing a travel ban on U.S. citizens in response to an equivalent...

A month before the US carried out its Christmas day attack on militants linked to the Islamic State group (IS) in north-western...

Guinea coup leader Mamady Doumbouya has been elected president, according to provisional results announced on Tuesday, completing the return to...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to end temporary protections from deportation that...