The military junta in Mali has arrested the top executive and two other employees of Australia’s gold mining company Resolute Mining while they were visiting the country for talks over an unspecified ...

Ethiopia's army is arbitrarily jailing thousands of civilians in makeshift detention camps in the Amhara region, scene of an armed insurrection against the federal government, Amnesty International ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), positioned on the Blue Nile, is set to become the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa and one of the top ten worldwide. GERD could make Ethiopia a ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea authorities dissolved dozens of political parties and placed two major opposition ones under observation late Monday, while the transitional government has yet to ...

When an alliance led by three rebel armies seized swaths of territory near Myanmar's border with China from the military junta last October, Beijing looked the other way. A year on, rebel forces ...

This eroded all acts against the junta’s ruling. Fear overcame most people. A good number of projects were implemented, including writing of the Somali language using the Latin alphabet, rural ...

Brics is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The group has expanded to nine members, adding last year Iran, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Egypt. Many other countries ...

BANGKOK/BEIJING, Oct 25 - When an alliance led by three rebel armies seized swathes of territory near Myanmar's border with China from the military junta last October, Beijing looked the other way.

By Maya Misikir and Stephanie Nolen Maya Misikir reported from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Stephanie Nolen covers the global threat of infectious diseases including malaria. Malaria infection rates are ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s security forces arrested the son-in-law of the country’s former longtime military ruler, Than Shwe, for allegedly posting inflammatory statements on his Facebook ...

How an Anxious China Is Backing Myanmar's Faltering Junta in Civil War By Shoon Naing, Wa Lone, Devjyot Ghoshal, Poppy McPherson, Antoni Slodkowski BANGKOK/BEIJING -When an alliance led by three ...