Africa News

Morocco ease to 3-0 win over Tanzania in Africa Cup opener

En-Nesyri’s celebrations were initially cut short by the offside flag after he scored his team's third goal in the 80th minute.

Zambia reels from a cholera outbreak with more than 400 dead...

A large soccer stadium in the capital city has been converted into a treatment facility.

Shell will sell big piece of its Nigeria oil business, but...

Shell called it a way to streamline its business in a country it has operated in for decades, facing pushback about oil spills that have fouled rivers and farms and exacerbated tensions in a region that has faced years of militant violence.

Africa’s biggest oil refinery begins production in Nigeria

The $19 billion facility, which has a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day, has started to produce diesel and aviation fuel, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery company reported Saturday.

More than 40 dead in Liberia after leaking fuel tanker exploded...

The blast on Tuesday also injured at least 83 people in Totota town in the central part of the West African country, health officials said.

Some Catholic bishops reject Pope’s stance on blessings for same-sex couples....

Others downplayed the policy approved this week by Francis as merely reaffirming the Vatican's long-standing teaching about marriage being only a union between a man and a woman.