The British government has defended meetings by its officials with President Uhuru Kenyatta despite his indictment by the International Criminal Court.

Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC that he met Uhuru because Kenya was playing a vital role fighting a...

Italy’s first black minister has been the subject of racist taunts after being sworn in under the coalition government of newly elected Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Press TV reports.

After being sworn in as Italy’s minister of integration last week, Cecile Kyen...

China committed more than $75 billion to Africa in the past decade, coming close to the level of US money although the nature of Beijing's support was far different, a study said Monday.

The database released by the Center for Global Development aims to be the...

A former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden received a life sentence in a US prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam.

Wadih El-Hage, who served as bin Laden’s secretary in Sudan, was sentenced 12 years ago for the bom...

Two Associated Press Twitter accounts were hacked Tuesday, sending out a tweet claiming that President Barack Obama had been injured in explosions at the White House:

Within minutes, AP Corporate Communications reported that the tweet was false.

The...

Fighting between Nigeria's military and the armed group Boko Haram has left at least 185 people dead in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday.

The fighting in Baga began on Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleein...

President Barack Obama is planning a trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday during testimony on Capitol Hill.

Kerry mentioned such a trip in passing during an answer to a question about Africa during a House Foreign Affairs Committee heari...

Boston is on lockdown as thousands of law enforcement officers hunt for one of the Boston bombing suspects. The second suspect was killed in a gunfight with police earlier this morning.

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U.S. authorities on Friday identified two Russian-born brothers of Chechen background, one killed and the other at large, as the suspects in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing.

One suspect was identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a confr...

The FBI on Thursday released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them.

The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before...

An explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in West Texas and may have caused dozens of injuries, officials said.

A hospital in Waco, Texas, has been told to anticipate 100 injured people coming in from the fertilizer plant area, an official...

Africans are helping themselves more than aid workers are, according to new research.

Analysis of cash flows by Hong Kong-based Ghanaian academic Adams Bodomo shows that Africans living outside the continent send more money home to their families than is sent b...

A letter addressed to President Barack Obama initially tested positive for the poison ricin, officials said Wednesday, the second such letter to have been detected in recent days addressed to political figures.

The U.S. Capitol Police partially shut down the Se...

Two large explosions has been reported near the finish line of the famous Boston Marathon, leaving behind a scene of carnage.

Eyewitnesses at the scene said there was a loud explosion and emergency vehicles crowded the scene. Up to 60 people have been reported...

Prince Charles was the guest of honor at an event at Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, South London commemorating the life of the late Prof Wangari Maathai.

The Prince of Wales joined more than 100 other guests on March 27th in paying tribute to the Nobel Peace Pr...