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King Mswati III, 55, has been the monarch since 1986, when he became ruler days after his 18th birthday. His father was king for 82 years before him, although Eswatini only gained independence from Britain in 1968

The continent exports unrefined gold, lithium and cobalt due to limited infrastructure and financing, but now wants to process these products to reap greater rewards

The conviction of three women for prohibited excisions on eight babies sparks intense debate in this African country where 75% of adolescent girls have been subjected to the practice

President William Ruto made the appeal in an address to leading U.S. technology companies and investors

Authorities warned that disease and explosives shifted by the waters could claim yet more lives

Six out of 10 doctors in the African country plan to emigrate. The government wants to retain them for up to five years by law

A study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation states that the world is experiencing an epidemic of maternal and child mortality

The destruction appears greatest in Derna, a city formerly held by Islamic extremists in the chaos that has gripped Libya for more than a decade and left it with crumbling and inadequate infrastructure

A study by Doctors Without Borders and others warns of the proliferation of complications suffered by women following a terminated pregnancy in conflict-affected regions

For decades, scientists have pondered the usefulness of certain carved balls found at sites dating back a million and a half years

Buthelezi founded the Inkatha Freedom Party, the third-largest political party in South Africa when the country transitioned from the racist apartheid system to a democratic one in 1994

A comprehensive international report warns that the economic costs resulting from these plants and animals have already soared to over $400 billion a year

The elections are the second since the ouster of longtime autocratic ruler Robert Mugabe in a 2017 coup

General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema took the oath in the presidential palace in front of a packed, boisterous room of government officials, military and local leaders in Libreville

Hassoumi Massoudou, acting head of state of the overthrown government, says West African countries have experienced four coup d’états in two years. ‘They have said enough is enough’

An emergency services spokesperson said more than 50 others were injured in the blaze that broke out at about 1 a.m. on Thursday. Witnesses say as many as 200 people or more may have been living in the building

In a video apparently from detention in his residence, President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to ’make noise’ to support him. But crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem to celebrate the coup

They caught Hollywood’s attention with their futuristic short films before evolving towards a more social cinema where they show the drama of displaced populations and denounce the colonial plunder of African art

Conservative Alexander Schallenberg defends his country’s military neutrality in the Ukrainian war and expresses concern about the possibility of Moscow taking advantage of the loopholes left by the EU

The Blue Nile meets the White Nile in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, before winding northward through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea

An opposition party spokesperson said within minutes of the results being announced that they would reject them as “hastily assembled without proper verification”

Conservationists are disputing the government’s lifting of the logging ban in effect for the past six years

This was the council’s first public communication since it met earlier this month to discuss Niger’s crisis

‘We will work together to find a way out of the crisis, in the interests of all,’ Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani said, commenting after his first meeting with a regional delegation seeking to resolve the nation’s crisis

In a region rife with coups, Niger was seen as one of the last democratic countries that Western nations could partner with to beat back a growing jihadi insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group

This is the first meeting since the defense chiefs of the Western African regional bloc ordered the deployment of a ‘standby force’ last week to restore constitutional rule in the country