Australia said today it plans to lobby against UN plans to add the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered UNESCO World Heritage sites..Conservation experts working with the UN warned on Monday that the world's largest coral reef would be added to the list of endangered World Heritage s

At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu overnight, a security agency official told AFP today.

At least 14 people attending a funeral in Cameroon's capital Yaounde were killed by a landslide Sunday, the region's governor said.

A woman has been arrested after a Whatsapp voice message circulated on social media seeming to call for black people to be banned in South Africa, police said.

The rapper and fashion designer Kanye West has suggested he will run for president and wants Donald Trump to be his running mate. Trump, for his part, brushed aside a recent meeting with West as of no significance.

The military has foiled a coup attempt in Sao Tome and Principe, the prime minister of the island nation off the western coast of Africa said in a video message confirmed by AFP on Friday.

At least three people including an adolescent girl were killed and 11 others wounded Friday when a man opened fire on two schools in southeastern Brazil, officials said.

An Algerian court Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires during an extended heatwave last year, state media reported.

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires in August last

The head of Brazil's electoral court Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday rejected a complaint from President Jair Bolsonaro's allies to challenge the presidential election, which the incumbent lost by a small margin, according to a court document..Leftist ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silv

At least 37 people were killed Tuesday when three buses collided outside the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the country's road safety agency said..The accident happened when two commercial buses had a head-on collision and burst into flames, before a third bus then crashed into them

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged the election he lost last month to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, arguing votes from some machines should be "invalidated" in a complaint that election authorities met with initial skepticism..Bolsonaro's claim seems unlikely to g

At least 11 people died and 43 were injured Tuesday when their bus overturned on a highway in northern Morocco, authorities said.

Nine people drowned and three others were rescued when their overloaded car plunged into a dam in northern Nigeria, the fire service said yesterday.

United Nations officers running security at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt said Monday they are probing allegations of surveillance and misconduct by Egyptian police towards delegates..Participants at COP27 -- including activists, rights defenders, and civil society groups -- have raise

Tribal fighting in Sudan's restive Darfur region has left at least 24 people dead and triggered a localised state of emergency, state media said Monday.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest broke the monthly record for October, with the destruction of 904 square kilometers (350 square miles), official figures showed Friday.

As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten and fear hangs in the air while a government medical team prepares the body for the funeral -- the latest victim of Ebola in the East African nation.

One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030, little has been done to finance protections or pass new conservation laws, experts say.

The death toll from Sunday's plane crash in Lake Victoria in Tanzania has jumped to 19, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said, after the Precision Air flight with dozens of passengers aboard plunged into water while approaching the northwestern city of Bukoba.