Africa

A landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has left 18 dead, police said on Sunday.

The 79-year-old woman was with other tourists on a game drive in a Zambian national park when a bull elephant charged, flipping over the vehicle and killing her.

The “aggressive” creature buffeted the vehicle carrying six tourists and a guide, tour operator, Wilderness, said in a statement.

A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging.

Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.

The coup leaders said in an announcement on Gabon’s state TV that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had been “unanimously” designated president of a transitional committee to lead the country.

The rebels attacked the women as they gathered firewood in the Jere district of Borno, which is the epicenter of a 14-year-long insurgency launched by the extremist group known as Boko Haram

The boat was found with seven bodies off the Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde, off the coast of Senegal.

A coalition of West African nations said on Thursday it had decided to deploy a “standby force” aimed at restoring constitutional order in Niger after its Sunday deadline to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum expired.

The UN children’s agency says about 300 children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside.

When Shimirimana ‘Shim’ Eliya gets his degree at Texas A&M University Department of Dental Hygiene on Friday, it will be the end of a long road that started half a world away in Africa.

Prevention is the best medicine and that’s why the soon-to-be graduate you’re about to meet wanted to be a dental hygienist. The journey took him from a refugee camp in Africa to the Texas A&M University Department of Dental Hygiene in Dallas.

Several main roads to the affected area have been made impassable by the rains, hampering the relief efforts.