The World Food Programme said the amount of aid being blocked by floods is enough for at least 500,000 people.

A new mpox variant was first reported in DRC less than a year ago. Renewed fighting in the country has increased the number of displaced people living in crowded camps.

Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton took over as the commander of U.S. Space Forces in Europe-Space Forces Africa during a ceremony Tuesday at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

South Sudan, Mauritius, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe have together spent at least $400 million since July to defend their currencies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ethiopia, an outlier, on Wednesday sold dollars to close the gap between the official and parallel market rate, days after it allowed its currency to float freely.

Here are some of the key moments in the U.S. involvement in Niger.

The last U.S. troops have left a drone base in Niger, all but capping the American military presence in the west African country once considered the centerpiece of Washington’s security strategy in the Sahel region.

In India and China, torrential rains have killed more than 200 people in the past week. Three others died in Pakistan. Widespread flooding has been reported in North Korea near the border with China with no word on whether anyone died.

The effects of the war in Sudan can be measured in superlatives: the world’s biggest internal displacement crisis, largest education crisis and biggest hunger crisis.

For two years, the residents of Ganthier, a rural community in Haiti, supported local police against bandits who raided and pillaged businesses, kidnapped U.S. missionaries and launched repeated attacks in the area. On Thursday, Ganthier found itself on the verge of a full-blown gang take-over.

Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld a 64-year-old law that criminalizes sodomy, saying the statute is constitutional, while it continues to ponder the fate of even-harsher anti-LGBTQ legislation.

Federal authorities on Thursday announced sanctions and criminal charges against an alleged Tijuana-based international criminal group suspected of smuggling thousands of undocumented migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the United States.

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille has asked the Haitian police, with the support of the country’s small armed forces and the Kenya-led multinational security force, to begin launching operations gradually in areas controlled by armed gangs.

The U.S. Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa has a new leader after a change of command ceremony Thursday at Caserma Ederle.

Kenyan police used teargas to disperse protesters in some of the nation’s biggest cities, shuttering shops and offices in their central business districts.

The ancient freshwater creature resembled a salamander and had a mouth dominated by “huge fangs,” according to a member of the team that discovered it.

The Iowa National Guard is assisting in cleanup efforts by clearing debris after historic flooding ravaged the state last week.

Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least 18 people, local authorities said Sunday.

Kenyan President William Ruto slammed the nationwide anti-government protests that have left a least 17 people dead amid a brutal police crackdown, calling it “treasonous” and deployed the military to end the agitation.

The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force – Africa has a new look for shoulder sleeves that makes a point of where its mission lies.