Africa

Dubbed Task Force Takuba, the new joint deployment marks a coup for France, which has sought partners in its long fight against Islamist militants in Africa's vast Sahel region.

A swarm can consist of up to 80 million locusts and have the potential to destroy crops that can sufficiently feed 2,500 people for a year.

Princess Diana's biographer Andrew Morton claims in a Channel 5 documentary that Meghan Markle may have felt frustrated that she could not speak for herself.

Researchers are baffled at the deaths of elephants in Botswana as the cause remains unknown.

Sunday's eclipse arrived on the longest day of the year -- the summer solstice -- when Earth's north pole is tilted most directly towards the Sun.

In the UK Africa Investment Summit 2020, Johnson made a clear pitch for business less than two weeks before Britain leaves the European Union.

The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Climate Change Resilience Index measured the preparedness of the world's 82 largest economies.

The Russia-Africa Summit is set for next Wednesday and Thursday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Coupé-Décalé musician DJ Arafat succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident.

May is the latest in a long line of prime ministers who have evoked the potential of "Africa" for their own political purposes.

Known as a corporate raider, Bollore is one of France's richest men, with a net worth of $6.6 billion.

On 20 December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 3 March of every year as the International Wildlife Day.

Hailemariam Desalegn announced that he was stepping down to quell months-long unrest in the landlocked African nation.

German study finds red-fronted lemurs from Madagascar can differentiate between species.

Emergency exit door comes loose and crashes on to runway as aircraft lands in Nigerian capital of Abuja.

The ruling party's senior figures hold emergency meeting with the South African president urging him to resign.

Initially, up to 20,000 refugees, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, will receive notices.

The southwestern African nation's economy is in dire straits following the plunge in global commodity prices.

Uganda's leader has backed the US President's use of the term "shithole" to describe Haiti and a number of other African nations.

Hundreds of Guinean women desperate to have children claim they were tricked out of their wages by faith healer N'na Fanta Camara.

A 9-year-old girl has died from suspected Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in the central district of Nakaseke, in Uganda, a health official has stated.

Madagascar is home to all the world's 113 lemur species with 90% of wildlife on the island found nowhere else on Earth.

Donald Trump reportedly asked "Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?" during a White House meeting, and the world reacted with shock and anger.

Multiple reports from US media have said that during a meeting on immigration President Donald Trump asked why immigrants from "sh*thole" African nations came to the US.

An estimated 5,500 Nigerians are set to be flown back in the next three weeks after they spent months or years in cruel living conditions in Libyan detention centres.

But some Angolans fear that as the dance has spread across the world, it has become misunderstood

Christmas charity song title and lines including "Tonight, thank God, it's them instead of you" slammed by critics for perpetuating sense of White Man's Burden.

The newly inaugurated Zimbabwean president says a drive against corruption will dominate the first few months of his office.

Animal rights group Peta released a video showing the merciless killing of donkeys using a sledgehammer.

Despite being called out for 'relentless embezzlement and extortion', Equatorial Guinea's vice president walked away from a French court with a suspended jail sentence.