November 6, 2018 Cameroon's President Paul Biya inaugurated for 7th term Cameroon's President Paul Biya, Africa's oldest leader, was inaugurated Tuesday for his seventh term in office amid rising separatist troubles.
November 6, 2018 The Latest: Probe into claims US ship delayed migrant rescue The Latest on migration into Europe (all times local): 5:30 p.m.
November 6, 2018 Madagascar to vote for familiar faces in presidential polls Voters in Madagascar will go to the polls Wednesday to elect a president with hopes that a new leader will take this Indian Ocean island nation out of chronic poverty and corruption.
November 6, 2018 Fighting grinds on in Yemen, rebels say halting Saudis Fighting in Yemen's grueling civil war ground on Tuesday, with Houthi rebels saying they halted the advances of their adversaries, the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition seeking to oust them from power.
November 6, 2018 Spain finds 17 dead migrants, 100 survivors in Mediterranean Spanish rescue workers combed the seas and shores of southern Spain on Tuesday, searching for 17 missing migrants a day after finding the bodies of 17 other migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean in boats departing from North Africa.
November 5, 2018 Tanzania leader vows large-scale arrests of LGBT people The leader of Dar es Salaam, the most populated city in Tanzania, is ordering mass arrests of homosexuals.
November 5, 2018 UN adds sexual violence as reason for sanctions in Libya The U.N. Security Council on Monday authorized action against illicit oil exports from Libya until February 2020, and it added planning and committing sexual and gender-based violence as reasons for sanctions over objections from Russia and China.
November 5, 2018 Eritrea hopes UN will lift sanctions Eritrea is hoping that the U.N. Security Council will soon lift sanctions it imposed against the East African nation in 2009 following its thaw in relations with Ethiopia and other neighboring countries in recent months.
November 5, 2018 Egypt's leader says Arab Spring uprising was ill-advised Egypt's president has said his country's 2011 Arab Spring revolt was an ill-advised attempt at change whose chaotic aftermath posed an existential threat to the nation.
November 5, 2018 Dozens of students kidnapped from Presbyterian school in Cameroon Armed men who stormed a Presbyterian school in Cameroon on Sunday kidnapped 78 students and absconded with the hostages to a separatist base, where a video captured one militant's chilling address to the scared group: "You will be going to school now here."