Tigray Defence Forces have seized control of several major towns in the region, laying bare the fragility of a truce with the ...

Namibia has recorded its first case of cholera in nearly a decade, in a region bordering Angola where an outbreak has killed ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

It went to the seventh round of voting," explained DW's Solomon Muchie, who covers the African Union in Addis Ababa. But Youssouf won the required support of two-thirds of the region's leaders to ...

inviting applications from institutions across the African Union regions. A panel of independent experts conducted reviewed applications, interviewed shortlisted candidates, and selected ...

Eastern and Southern African countries are looking into the possibility of deploying troops to secure areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo now under M23 rebel control, according to a document ...

The troops lost their lives at the hands of the M23 as fighting in the Goma region of the DRC’s North ... including MONUSCO.” African Union Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said ...

The African Union on Wednesday said the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risked cleaving the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of unrest.

As fighting continues in South Kivu between M23 rebels and Congolese forces in the eastern regions bordering Rwanda ... This week, we discuss how the African Union can assist with an International ...