Arab League foreign ministers met Tuesday in Qatar, focusing on efforts to resolve the Nile River dam conflict between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. Egypt’s Foreign Minister said Cairo is seeking a diplomatic, not a military, solution to its dispute with…

Cameroon has offered huge consignments of food and mattresses to at least 3,000 displaced persons said to be in dire need on its eastern border with the Central African Republic. Most of the people, displaced by violence following December presidential…

NEW YORK – The U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give two-year terms on the powerful 15-nation Security Council to five countries. Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates all ran unopposed for available seats in their regional…

A well-aimed kick. A strong shove, body checks, shouting and a fight for dominance.This isn’t a rowdy football (soccer) match. This is the latest session of the Pan African Parliament.The continental body brings together African legislators to impleme…

Mali’s constitutional court on Friday declared Assimi Goita, the colonel who led a military coup this week while serving as vice president, to be the new interim president.The ruling raises the stakes as West African leaders prepare to meet on Sunday t…

Officials in Mali say the country’s interim president and prime minister have been released, one day after they resigned while in military custody. The military arrested interim president Bah N’daw and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, on Monday in th…