DECATUR — Travon Brown-Nelson, the Decatur drug dealer accused of opening up in a blaze of gunfire after he said he was robbed in a drug deal, has been sentenced to 24 months probation. The 26 ...

Jan. 27, 2025 The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to the biggest burst of spending on ...

In 2005, a 35-mile long fissure took place in Ethiopia's desert, known as the East African Rift. It marked the start of a long process in which the African plate is splitting into two tectonic plates ...

Image-AP Nine South African peacekeepers have been killed in clashes with M23 forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including two from UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO, the defence ministry said ...

Fighting raged in the region despite calls from the international community for the M23 to halt its advance on Goma, the key city in the east and home to over a million people. Armored vehicles ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper amidst warnings a chunk of the continent is breaking away. An area of East Africa could be separated from the continent sooner than previously thought, with a ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Shukri Osman Muse, 25, gets ready to ride her horse in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu on Friday. She believes ...

2024 was a year of extraordinary progress for Africa, marked by significant technological advancements, visionary leadership, impactful social initiatives, and ambitious infrastructure projects.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Expropriation Bill which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975 and sets out how organs of State may expropriate land in the public ...

The minute he is home, Alvin lights up a cigar ... teeming ashtrays, dirty plates, a bottle of vodka and Bloody Mary mix. The room is dark but for the glow of the TV, where a pack of African ...

During his first term as US president, Donald Trump showed little interest in relations with governments in Africa. The continent also didn't feature much in his inauguration speech for his second ...

For Africa, the implications are immediate and profound. Trump’s policies threaten to undermine critical climate, health and economic initiatives while creating ripple effects across the continent.