NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Heavy fighting Sunday in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people, including a U.N. peacekeeper, authorities said. The civilians and a ...

Over half of all terrorism-related deaths in the world occur in the Sahel. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace. The vast region in Africa that lies just south ...

With the embrace of legal technology steadily gaining momentum in Africa, some experts predict the possibility of the region surpassing the rest of the world, like it did with the mobile phone ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

The forced closing of two U.S. military bases in Niger and the hasty withdrawal of a much smaller group of special operations forces personnel from neighboring Chad are notable setbacks for the ...

In 2002, Africa seemed poised to rise. Wealthy creditor nations were wiping billions of dollars of unsustainable debt off the books of sub-Saharan countries, and global demand was surging for the ...