Africa

The mamba's skin was found ripped open, showing its muscles. It also had a "big dent" in the side of its body, multiple broken ribs, and puncture wounds.

South African citrus farmer Ben Vorster, 50, was fishing aboard the 37-foot Bertram charter boat Smoker with renowned Capt. Ryan “Roo” Williamson the morning of May 19 when he hooked into one of the biggest Atlantic blue marlin ever caught on a rod and reel. The crew was trolling off Africa’s central-west coast near Mindelo, Cape Verde, when they first saw the fish.

The 2-month-old calf was found lying in the muddy, shallow well with no family around.

Millions of people have fled Ukraine since the war started, but not all are Ukrainian. And some citizens of African countries have found that the doors of Europe are much less open to them.

(CNN) — Nestled between Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Liberia is the oldest republic in Africa. But despite its historic legacy, in the minds of many outsiders the West African nation is still more commonly associated with civil war and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor. But at the...

Facial scarification was once popular across Nigeria. Deep cuts, usually on both cheeks or the forehead, were carved on children by families and communities, mostly as a mark of identity. The marks also held stories of pain, reincarnations and beauty. The practice, however, has been fading away since a federal...

Villagers in Raku Bula, Merti in Cherab Community Conservancy, found the baby elephant lying alone in the muddy shallow well. An elephant calf was found trapped and nearly drowning in a muddy well on May 18. According to witnesses, the baby elephant, only about two months old, was lying in the mud and appeared unable to move before being rescued.

ADDIS ABABA, May 20 (Reuters) - A prominent Ethiopian general critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government appeared in court on Friday after being detained this week, his wife said, amid the arrests of some ethnic Amhara political activists and journalists. Brigadier General Tefera Mamo commanded the Amhara region's forces...

GENEVA, May 20 (Reuters) - Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of the Sahel due to a massive funding shortfall with millions set to go hungry as prices rise and climate shocks hit yields, U.N. agencies said on Friday. The...

DAKAR/ACCRA, May 18 (Reuters) - It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet. One...

The number of migrants deported to Rwanda is “more likely to be in the hundreds” each year, according to the deputy prime minister.Dominic Raab said he wanted to “manage expectations” about the plan to give people deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally a one-way ticket to the east African nation.When announced last month, Boris Johnson said tens of thousands of people could be flown there under the deal in the years ahead.I think I’d be careful about managing expectations. It is not going to deal with the whole problemAsked when the first deportation flights to Rwanda will take...

Cape Town Tigers point guard Myck Kabongo is a significantly better basketballer than fellow rapper J. Cole, it's fair to say, but the Democratic Republic of Congo international has nothing but respect for the Grammy winner, on the court and off. Kabongo and Cole are not unknown to each other,...

On May 11, Johanna Mazibuko celebrated her 128th birthday. Mazibuko is considered the oldest woman alive and credits her health to fresh milk and wild spinach, according to Metro. The South African Woman was born in 1894 and told reporters she was raised on a maize farm in Ottosdal. The...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The African Development Bank on Friday approved a $1.5 billion emergency food production facility for 20 million farmers on the continent to avert a looming food crisis brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a statement from the bank said.

The black mamba is a highly venomous African snake known for its size and speed, and we are fast approaching mating season.

Getting up for a morning coffee is not always a memorable experience, but in South Africa, your morning routine might come with a side of sporting elephants.

NAIROBI, May 20 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund has prolonged support for Somalia under its Extended Credit Facility to Aug. 17, giving itself time to consult with an incoming government, the lender said on Friday. The move follows election of a new president on Sunday and a request from...

N'DJAMENA, May 20 (Reuters) - Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali's military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a five-nation military force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region. Malian authorities announced the decision on Sunday, blaming the lack of progress in the fight against...