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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

A Congo team staff member used voodoo during the penalty shootout, Nigeria coach Éric Chelle claimed after the African soccer power was eliminated from qualifying for the 2026 World Cup...

The world`s oldest president, Cameroon `s 92-year-old Paul Biya, has won election again, the country`s top court said Monday, after days of protesters` clashes with security forces left at least four people dead as opposition supporters demanded credible results...

Two buses and two other vehicles crashed early Wednesday on a highway in western Uganda, killing at least 46 people, police said, in one of the worst motor accidents in the East African country in recent years...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) speaks during a press conference with his counterpart from South Africa Naledi Pandor in Tehran on October 22, 2023...

Asylum-seekers in a dingy boat headed for Italy are intercepted by authorities off the coast of Sfax, a Tunisian port city, October 4, 2022...

Flight crew from Air China arrive in hazmat suits in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on December 3, 2021...

File photo of Mali-based militants (Photo by AP) Daesh-linked terrorists in central Mali have reportedly killed more than 30 people on a bus ferrying them to a local market amid persisting violent insurgency in the West African nation...

This picture shows outgoing UN special envoy for Libya Jan Kubis (L) with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during a visit by the Slovak to Morocco’s capital city, Rabat, on September 13, 2021...

File photo of Tunisian President Kais Saied The Tunisian president has denied allegations of staging a coup and insisted he would not turn into a dictator after ousting the nation’s premier and suspending the parliament and subsequent arrest of two lawmakers after the lifting of their immunity...

Protesters blocking a street gesture as Tunisian security forces fire tear gas in the Sidi Hassine suburb on the northwestern outskirts of Tunis on June 12, 2021, amid outrage against policing practices following the death of a youth...

A member of the South African Student Congress (SASCO) holds a poster reflecting the face of the late Palestinian political leader, Yasser Arafat, during their protest in solidarity with Palestine outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on May 20, 2021...

A file photo of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (photo by AFP) The United Nations (UN)’s chief has demanded the pullout of all foreign soldiers and mercenaries from Libya, also hailing tangible progress made in recent months in resolving the conflict in the North African country...

File photo of Tunisian police officers stand guard in capital Tunis...

Police snipers keep watch from the High Court building’s roof...

File photo of a meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and South African Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor in Tehran, on Oct...

A file photo of US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch an attack 1,000 times greater in magnitude against Iran following claims in US media that Tehran was planning to kill an American diplomat in retaliation for Washington’s assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani...

WHO’s Michael Ryan and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have warned about the impact of COVID-19 in Africa The executive director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, has warned that the African continent is faced with a steep acceleration of coronavirus cases...

United Nations health agencies have warned that an additional 51,000 children under the age of five could die in the Middle East and North Africa by the end of 2020 due to disruptions in primary health care caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19)...

Soldiers of the G5 Sahel joint force attend the inauguration of the new headquarters in Bamako, Mali, on June 3, 2020...

Turkish-backed Takfiri militants are seen in the town of Saraqib in the eastern part of Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on February 27, 2020...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said South African would close its borders from Wednesday to all foreigners from countries highly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic...

 Chinese has dispatched warships to the country's first overseas military base, in Djibouti on the strategic Horn of Africa...