Africa

The local government alleged the Amnesty report relied on "scanty information' in making its assertions.

"Heaven Help Us All" singer Stevie Wonder has announced that he plans to relocate to Ghana permanently.

The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday in an attack on a U.N. convoy in an area that is home to myriad rebel groups, the Foreign Ministry and local people said.

A United Nations report accuses Blackwater founder Erik Prince of assisting in violations of an international arms embargo on Libya, placing the military contractor at risk of U.N. sanctions, according to a diplomat with access to the report.

The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of Somalia, it announced Tuesday, amid the grinding war in nearby Yemen.

Guinea, the West Africa country, announced Sunday that the Ebola virus has become an epidemic after the deaths of three people and hospitalizations of four others, a report said.

Many women have "conclusively and without a doubt" been raped in the Tigray region, home to Ethiopia’s secretive conflict - which may have left tens of thousands of civilians dead - the country’s minister for women said Thursday in a rare government admission of its fallout.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s promotion this week to a leadership position on a U.S. House subcommittee drew a sharp reaction Friday night from "Fox & Friends Weekend" co-host Pete Hegseth.

It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were right in the middle of it.

A second case and death of Ebola has been recorded in Congo’s North Kivu province, according to officials.