A new command takes over all U.S. military operations in Africa on Wednesday, a program that many Africans fear has a hidden agenda skewed by the war on terror and a self-interested scramble for resources.

A court in Senegal has sentenced a newspaper publisher to three years in prison for printing “false reports” in an article claiming the president and his son had stolen government funds.

More than 1,000 soldiers have left a national park that has been on the front lines of fighting in eastern Congo in a move the park director said was intended to preserve an environment that is home to endangered gorillas, hippos and active volcanoes.

Greenpeace called on the world’s electronics companies Tuesday to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy nations’ gadgets ends up being dumped in poor countries despite laws prohibiting it.

Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to an international conservation group in an eastern Congo gorilla reserve, killing two people and wounding three others, officials and a U.N.-funded radio station said Wednesday.The vehicle belonged to...

A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town.The World Health Organization pressed Tuesday for quick...

Internal U.N. documents show investigators “ignored, minimized or shelved” numerous charges of gold smuggling and arms trading by its peacekeepers in Congo, an international rights organization said Friday.Allegations of such misconduct by peacekeepers...

South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations elsewhere on the continent.Elephants _ once on the verge of...

South Africa has lifted a 13-year ban on elephant culling.Once on the verge of extinction in some parts of South Africa, elephant numbers in that country have recently grown at a rate of more than 5 percent a year.Conservationists warn the removal of the...

On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat.Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped...