A Catholic splinter group consecrated four bishops on Wednesday, despite a direct appeal from Pope Leo to call it off.

Thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations across South Africa calling for tougher action against undocumented migrants, in what some accounts describe as the largest anti-immigration ...

Fans of the Ivory Coast soccer team gathered on Tuesday in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, to watch their team play ...

From Johannesburg to Durban, thousands marched across South Africa demanding undocumented migrants leave the country. The ...

At Kenya’s largest mental health referral hospital, male patients are offered a different kind of therapy: a personal grooming session provided by two visiting barbers. Healthcare workers say personal ...

Senegal's National Assembly passed a bill revising the balance of power between the country's executive and parliament on ...

Uganda's political crackdown is intensifying, with opposition leader Kizza Besigye appearing in court on treason charges as ...

Thousands of Malawians were awaiting clearance in makeshift encampments in South Africa Friday as tension mounted before an ...

More than 16 years after a massacre at a Conakry stadium left 156 people dead, a second trial has concluded in the Guinean ...

Europe is facing a deadly heat emergency, with the World Health Organization warning that more than 1,300 excess deaths have ...

An opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Monday he had been banned from leaving the country and stripped ...

Anti-immigrant protesters in South Africa took the streets on Tuesday - the unofficial deadline set by citizen-led groups for ...