The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an end to its ninth Ebola outbreak Tuesday, marking a victory for the new tools and experimental vaccine health agencies used to prevent a repeat of the epidemic that swept West Africa four years ago.
Ethiopia’s charismatic young leader, Abiy Ahmed, is delivering shock therapy to one of the world’s most entrenched one-party systems, calling for national reconciliation amid violent ethnic discord, ordering the release of political prisoners and legalizing opposition groups.
The leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace agreement at the conclusion of an unprecedented summit between the countries as they attempt to normalize relations after two decades of conflict.
Ethiopia and Eritrea announced the first concrete steps toward normalizing relations after two decades of conflict during an unprecedented visit Sunday by the Ethiopian prime minister.
South Sudan has offered to reinstate its exiled former vice president in an effort to quell a civil war that has been devastating the world’s youngest nation.
Officials from Eritrea met with their Ethiopian counterparts for the first time in two decades, in a potential turning point in a long dispute over their border that has kept the region on edge.
Zimbabwe’s president dodged an apparent assassination attempt ahead of a historic election, and a blast at a rally attended by Ethiopia’s new leader killed one person, rattling politics in two African nations in the midst of major transitions.
As Zimbabweans get set for July’s election, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to stem a crippling economic crisis, but the question is whether voters believe their new leader’s message of change.
Twenty-four years after the end of white minority rule, South Africa’s new leader is promising to tackle a problem that has confounded former colonies from Bolivia to Zimbabwe: how to redistribute land without hurting the economy.
A U.S. special-operations forces service member was killed and four others were wounded in Somalia after they came under small-arms and mortar fire from suspected members of an al Qaeda affiliate, the Pentagon said.
Ethiopia said it plans to sell stakes in some of the country’s most prized assets after decades of state control, including Ethio Telecom and Ethiopian Airlines, liberalizing one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
The Democratic Republic of Congo approved the use of five experimental Ebola treatments on patients suffering from the hemorrhagic fever, as drug companies and health workers scramble to use the current outbreak to help find a cure for the deadly virus.
A populist president nicknamed “the Bulldozer” is cracking down on opponents and spooking foreign investors, shifting one of Africa’s more stable democracies onto an authoritarian path.
The Horn of Africa is taking in billions in investment from Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., China and others vying for ports and military bases, in a contest that could affect access to the Suez Canal and the balance of power in the region.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the country’s first national elections since Robert Mugabe’s ouster will be held on July 30, posing a major test of its efforts to re-engage with the international community.
The clashes between Christian farming communities and Muslim herdsmen put President Muhammadu Buhari’s security pledges to the test before elections.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo began administering an experimental Ebola vaccine in the northwestern city of Mbandaka, as the country battles to contain its ninth outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever.
The World Health Organization raised the public-health risk to Congo from its latest Ebola outbreak to “very high” as the deadly virus reached a large port city.
Burundians voted on whether to change the east African nation’s constitution to allow the president to extend his term to 2034, potentially bolstering a trend on the continent of abandoning term limits that has alarmed democracy activists.
Officials made progress after months of acrimony over how to share the waters of the Nile river, a conflict that has threatened to upset the political balance in the Horn of Africa.
Twenty-six people were killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by an unidentified terrorist group in rural Burundi, the country’s security minister said Saturday.
In Tanzania, African giant pouched rats are being taught to sniff out explosives before being dispatched to places such as Angola where mines pose a persistent threat.
Having escaped to the U.S. after the 2014 mass kidnapping, a group of Nigerian students found themselves paraded in front of TV cameras and charity events. The truth of what happened became twisted as they fell in thrall to a human-rights lawyer who stands accused of pocketing some of the funds they raised.
Congo boycotted an international conference to raise donations for an estimated 13 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the central African country, calling it a “joke” based on manipulated figures.
The U.S. is reducing the presence of American commandos on Africa’s front lines, a move U.S. officers believe will make troops less vulnerable.