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“Day Zero” is approaching as South Africa’s showcase city of Cape Town prepares to turn off most water taps amid the worst drought in a century. Tensions among the four million residents are highlighting a class divide in a country with one of the world’s highest rates of...

Kenya’s High Court on Thursday ordered the government to end its shutdown of the country’s top three TV stations after they tried to broadcast images of the opposition leader’s mock inauguration, a ceremony considered treasonous. Journalists and human rights groups have raised an...

African leaders this week came close to demanding that President Donald Trump publicly apologize for his vulgar remark about the continent “that defies all forms of diplomatic etiquette,” according to a draft declaration obtained by The Associated Press. The draft, created during...

The 55-nation African Union appears to have decided to react diplomatically and strategically to U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged vulgar remarks about the continent. Rather than issuing an angry condemnation of Trump’s reported comments in which he likened Africa to a filthy...

The leaders of the United Nations and the African Union urged stronger international cooperation at the opening Sunday of the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. “I strongly believe Africa is one of the greatest forces for good in our world,” said U.N....

Ethiopia’s leader has rejected arbitration by the World Bank on a disagreement with Egypt over the hydroelectric dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Saturday refused the suggestion made by Egypt in late December that the World...

First, there was outrage in Africa at President Donald Trump’s vulgar comment about the continent. Now some governments and tourism operators are humorously exploiting it to promote Africa’s many attractions. Trump referred to African nations as “shithole countries” last week...

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told African envoys Thursday that “Africa is very important for the United States,” but she didn’t apologize for President Donald Trump’s vulgar comment about the continent as they had demanded, the chair of the African Group said. Equatorial Guinea’s...

Ethiopia’s prime minister arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for a two-day visit to discuss a massive dam that Egypt fears will cut into its share of the Nile, at a time of heightened tensions among the countries that rely on the river. Hailemariam Desalegn is the highest-ranking...

Ethiopian Airlines says it has finalized an agreement with Zambia to re-launch the southern African country’s national carrier. The partnership with Zambia comes as Ethiopian Airlines is opening new routes and hubs and is acquiring new aircraft. In a statement Tuesday, the...