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About 60 Nigerian men who say they entered Russia on the pretext of being World Cup fans camped outside their country’s embassy in Moscow on Friday asking for help. Sofiya Dukhovnaya, an activist with the anti-human trafficking group Alternativa, told The Associated Press the men...

Cameroon’s president, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, announced Friday he will run again in October’s election, while growing tensions with Anglophone separatists exploded in an ambush on a delegation led by the country’s defense minister. The 85-year-old President Paul...

An Egyptian court has sentenced 37 people to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years for illegally trafficking in human organs. The rulings Thursday in Cairo Criminal Court, reported by the state-run Al Ahram newspaper, sentenced six people to 15 years, 11 to seven years and...

The world’s largest humanitarian network is urging governments to end mistreatment of vulnerable migrants and remove barriers that prevent them from obtaining food, health care and legal services. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a...

When France’s xenophobic fringes disparage the country’s diverse World Cup team as more African than European, fans say, “So what?” And then respond with a resounding “Allez les Bleus!” At a time when populist politicians are trying to choke off or reroute migration flows, what...

Gambia’s justice minister says authorities have identified four bodies exhumed last year to shed light on the circumstances of their deaths and allow their families to hold proper burials. Justice Minister Aboubacarr Tambadou said Monday that preliminary results identified the...

Espousing love between their two countries, the leaders of longtime adversaries Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed Sunday to restore diplomatic relations after nearly 20 years and to open the border between their neighboring Horn of Africa countries. Ethiopia’s reformist new Prime...

Pope Francis thanked aid groups that rescue migrants at sea on Friday and denounced the “sterile hypocrisy” of governments that turn a blind eye to people seeking security and dignified lives. In a direct critique of policies in parts of Europe and the United States, Francis...

Ethiopia’s government has fired five prison officials as it confronts allegations of torture and other abuses of inmates as part of a wave of reforms. Among those fired is the federal prison chief who until recently defended the treatment of inmates as “fair.” The firings came...

Italy’s interior minister on Thursday called for the end of the international arms embargo on Libya, saying weapons and migrant traffickers disregard it anyway. Matteo Salvini made the appeal at a news conference in Rome with a deputy prime minister of the U.N. -backed Libyan...