East Africa

KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Despite high temperatures, tear gas, and a Ramadan fast, tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters marched in the...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Two leading human rights groups on Wednesday accused armed forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region of waging a...

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Factions aligned with Sudan's military have drawn up a deal to form a transitional...

By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) - Conflict, climate change and rising food and fuel prices are pushing about a quarter...

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his vice president, Riek Machar, have agreed to resume talks about...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Twenty trucks carrying food aid entered territory controlled by Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces on Friday, the United Nations...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -The M23 rebel group has declared a unilateral ceasefire after several days of clashes with the army in...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Medics said a protester was killed in Khartoum on Thursday as demonstrations against a military coup entered...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Gunmen suspected to be from Ethiopia's Amhara region killed 26 people and injured 15 in an...

By Stanis Bujakera and Fiston Mahamba KINSHASA (Reuters) - Eight peacekeepers were killed when a U.N. helicopter crashed in eastern...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo said that eight people were aboard a...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's military killed 14 of the Democratic Republic of Congo M23 rebel fighters on Tuesday and one...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo lost contact with a helicopter on...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Heavy fighting erupted overnight and continued on Monday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

(This Mar.24 story corrects to change reference to Ahmed Harif in paragraph 17 to Ahmed, to conform with Ethiopian naming...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Rebellious Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia have said they will respect a ceasefire proposed by Prime Minister Abiy...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A protester was shot and killed in the Sudanese city of Madani on Thursday, medics said, as...

PARIS (Reuters) - French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday put at between 25 billion euros and 26 billlion...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants have killed more than 60 people over five days of...

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's ruling Jubilee party endorsed veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga in a presidential election...