Leo Brent Bozell III.Rod Lamkey / AP file The new U...

US President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U...

Donald Trump hosts a lunch for African leaders at the White House on June 9, 2025...

Minister of the Presidency of the Republic of Somaliland, Khadar Hussein Abdi, looks on during an interview in Hargeisa on February 21, 2026...

Police officers patrol during the gubernatorial and state Assembly elections in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, March 18, 2023...

Sudanese families reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies in Al Dabbah, Sudan`s Northern State, in 2025...

An illustration of the Spinosaurus mirabilis dinosaur some 95 million years ago in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger...

Juliette Bryant says she first met Jeffrey Epstein when she was a 20-year-old psychology and philosophy student in Cape Town, South Africa, who modeled part time...

Juliette Bryant says she first met Jeffrey Epstein when she was a 20-year-old psychology and philosophy student in Cape Town, South Africa, who modeled part time...

A U.S. Army patch on the sleeve of an American soldier...

A school where displaced people sheltered in el-Fasher, Sudan, in October...

Chairman of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf...

Signing a military cooperation agreement between Saudi Arabia and Somalia in Riyadh only a few weeks after a similar Somalian agreement with Qatar is not a simple bilateral development in defense relations...

The president of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (File photo) The president of Somalia has strongly denounced the Israeli regime`s interference in his country`s internal affairs and vowed to "confront" any Israeli military presence in the breakaway region of Somaliland...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the late son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in Libya, according to his political team and local media...

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak (L) and Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted American sex offender and financier...

FILE - Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Congo, May 9, 2025...

Senegal beat Morocco 1-0 in an extraordinarily chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final, with Pape Gueye scoring an extra-time stunner after the Lions of Teranga had walked off the pitch and refused to play following the awarding of a late penalty...

A view of displaced woman dressed in the local attire at a refugee camp in El Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, January 12, 2026...

Stanley Nwabali saved two penalties, setting up Ademola Lookman to score Nigeria`s winner in a 4-2 shoot-out victory over Egypt and seal third place at the Africa Cup of Nations...

Residents sit on a Mozambique military truck transporting them across floodwater that blocked a road in the Boane district on Jan...

Morocco reached their first Africa Cup of Nations final since 2004 as Yassine Bounou`s penalty heroics sealed a 4-2 shoot-out win over Nigeria after a 0-0 semi-final draw...

Mohamed Salah`s goal was enough to help Egypt hold onto a dramatic 3-2 win over Africa Cup of Nations holders Ivory Coast and reach the semi-finals...

Victor Osimhen and Akor Adams were on target as Nigeria booked their place in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations with a deserved 2-0 victory over Algeria...

At least 30 villagers have been killed while several others were abducted by gunmen who raided a village in northern Nigeria`s Niger state, police said Sunday, the latest in a cycle of deadly violence in the conflict-hit region...

Brahim Díaz kept Morocco`s Africa Cup of Nations title hopes on track while five-time winner Cameroon beat South Africa 2-1 for a showdown with the host nation in the quarterfinals...

US President Donald Trump Mali and Burkina Faso have announced reciprocal travel bans on American citizens in response to a similar measure imposed by the United States earlier this month, according to statements from their foreign ministries...

US President Donald Trump Mali and Burkina Faso have announced reciprocal travel bans on American citizens in response to a similar measure imposed by the United States earlier this month, according to statements from their foreign ministries...

In recent years, Somaliland has transformed from a marginal and less known region in north of Horn of Africa into an emerging actor in the regional and international geopolitical equations...

Makeshift shelters erected by displaced Sudanese at the Um Yanqur camp in Sudan`s western Darfur region, on November 3, 2025...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia addresses an emergency joint parliamentary session in the capital, Mogadishu, on December 28, 2025...

Sudan`s players pose for the team picture before the Africa Cup of Nations group E soccer match between Algeria and Sudan in Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday, Dec...

The flag of Somaliland is seen during a campaign rally of the main opposition party Waddani in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on November 8, 2024, ahead of the 2024 Somaliland presidential election...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei Iran has strongly condemned the Israeli regime`s blatant violation of Somalia`s territorial integrity and national sovereignty by recognizing the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign state...

A man holds a flag of Somaliland in front of the Hargeisa War Memorial monument in Hargeisa on Nov...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli regime has announced its recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign state, a move swiftly condemned by Somalia and several regional powers who warn it violates international law and threatens regional stability...

Flip-flops belonging to worshippers are seen following a deadly bomb explosion at a mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Thursday...

Elephants at the Maasai Mara National Reserve, in Maasai Mara, Kenya, on May 6...

Sudan`s Prime Minister Kamil Idris Sudan`s Prime Minister Kamil Idris has appealed to the UN Security Council to endorse his peace initiative aimed at halting the African country`s devastating war and placing it under international oversight...

The photo shows released children who are pupils at St Mary`s co-educational boarding school in rural Papiri, Niger state, Nigeria, on December 21, 2025...

Ayoub El Kaabi scored a sublime overhead kick to ensure Morocco ran out 2-0 winners over Comoros in the Africa Cup of Nations opener on Sunday...

Residents wathch as South African Police Service (SAPS) officers gather at the scene of an attack at a tavern in Bekkersdal on Dec...

The picture shows Jeffery Epstein holding an outsized cheque, signed "DJTRUMP"...

Sudanese families displaced from El-Fasher reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan`s Northern State on Nov...

Sudanese families displaced from El-Fasher reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, Sudan, on Nov...

In recent months, verbal and media tensions between Algeria and the UAE have gone beyond normal levels, signaling a deep geopolitical competition in North Africa and the Sahel region...

Forensic personnel at a scene where bodies of the victims of a mass shooting where found at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday...

The dormitories of St. Mary`s Catholic Primary and Secondary School after gunmen abducted children and staff in Papiri, Nigeria, on Friday...

World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies broke with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South Africa on Saturday despite opposition from the United States, which is boycotting the two-day talks in a diplomatic rift with the host country...

Hanan Jarrar, Palestinian ambassador to South Africa, addresses the passengers during their wait on the tarmac Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering a way out of the devastated enclave, in what South Africa alleged on Monday appeared to be part of a bid to displace Palestinians...