Blinken Prods Tunisia on Reforms in Call With Leader

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken encouraged Tunisia's leader to make reforms to respond to Tunisians' hopes for "democratic progress," the U.S. State Department said on Sunday, nearly four months after President Kais Saied seized political power....

Gunmen Kidnap 5 Chinese Mine Workers in DR Congo

Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped five Chinese nationals working at a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-plagued east on Sunday, military sources said.Regional army spokesman Major Dieudonne Kasereka said that "at aroun...

Blinken Warns Russian Group Not to Interfere in Mali

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday warned a shadowy Russian company with connections to the Kremlin not to interfere in efforts aimed at restoring democracy in the West African nation of Mali.As he wrapped up a weeklong, three-nation to...

Car Bomb Kills Popular Broadcast Journalist in Somalia

A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed Saturday in Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew up his car, government officials and his colleagues said. Another journalist also was injured.Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, better known as Afrika, the direc...

Blinken Announces US Will Host Summit With African Leaders

ABUJA, NIGERIA — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his first visit to Nigeria, delivered a key speech on U.S.-Africa policy to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). At the meeting, the top U.S. diplomat announced that the Uni...

Blinken: US Sees African Countries as Equal Partners

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday the United States sees African countries as equal partners as it seeks to bolster its influence on a continent that receives much of its foreign aid from U.S. rival China.“The United States firmly beli...

Scientists Mystified, Wary, as Africa Avoids COVID Disaster

HARARE, ZIMBABBWE — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic...