Africa news headlines

In the notorious Death Valley, tourists took photos next to a thermometer showing temperatures of 55 degrees.

A five-year-old girl was among those rescued from the water after the maritime disaster.

Escalating protests turned deadly when security forces fired teargas and live ammunition at protesters.

Kenya's president described the demonstrations as a national security threat and pledged to restore order.

The aid package is hoped to support civilians caught between ongoing conflict and disasters in the Horn of Africa.

The sinking "is another reminder of the urgent need to work together to address urgent migration challenges".

The giants of the animal kingdom call each other and respond to individual names, new research found.

The aircraft carrying top government officials vanished from radar shortly after taking off from the southern African nation's capital.

The proceedings before the open-air military court were broadcast live on the local television channel.

Ten people were killed and 160 others, including children, were abducted during a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Tyler Thompson, 21, was one of at least three Americans who were named by the Congolese army as being part of a failed effort to overthrow the government in Kinshasa

Authorities in Algeria rescued him from a sheep pen in what has been described as a 'heinous' crime.

It's the second Boeing incident in two days, after an emergency landing following landing gear failure in Turkey.

A destructive disease sweeping across cacao trees in West Africa could jeopardise the world's supply of chocolate.

It's believed the makeshift ferry was carrying more than 100 people fleeing a cholera outbreak.

The victim's family say the elderly American woman was killed in a 'freak accident'.

The ship was still in port when they got back but the captain would not let them on board, according to one of the stranded passengers.

While human-made climate change has spurred more erratic weather globally, there is something else parching southern Africa this year.

The awards celebrate the best in animal, insect and nature photography from around the world.

One man organised a rescue mission only to find two of his grandchildren dead, and his daughter soon after.

They have demanded a ransom of almost $1 million and threatened to kill all the students if their demands are not met.

The primary school students were snatched away just as they were about to start lessons.

Deaths from terrorism have jumped to their highest in seven years, new research found.

The 67-year-old has disappeared in the country's famed Victoria Falls National Park.

The southern African nation made a peaceful and swift transition to power after the veteran leader's death.

Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.

The two sailors were boarding a vessel in search of illicit Iranian weapons when one fell into the water due to eight-foot swells, and the second jumped in after them according to protocol.

A large soccer stadium in the capital city has been converted into a treatment facility.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves

Several passengers have been captured by the terror group in Somalia.

The ultra rare African artefact is at the centre of a legal dispute playing out in the French courts.

Thousands have drowned this year alone on the dangerous route for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

Rishi Sunak says he will "do what is necessary" to revive a blocked deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, even if it means ignoring human rights laws.

After a two-year search, the strange South African, sand-swimming animal was spotted.

Only Pistorius really knows for sure what he did, and he may be the only person who ever will.

Communities in Somalia say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding that has already killed at least 96 people.

Oscar Pistorius could be granted parole today after spending nearly 10 years in prison for murder.

Finding the materials was not an easy task, Helen Williams said.

Rishi Sunak said the court had "confirmed that the principle of removing asylum seekers to a safe third country is lawful", even as it ruled Rwanda unsafe.

Prosecutors say Mackenzie ordered his congregants to starve to death in order to meet Jesus.

The outbreaks of fatalities could be more likely to occur amid conditions created by the climate crisis, new research found.

Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

It was once thought WA was one of the only places they existed. New research may turn that and other assumptions on their head.

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The death toll from flooding that hit the eastern Libyan city of Derna has reached more than 5000 and was expected to rise further, a local health official said.

Emergency workers have uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya's eastern city of Derna.

In some villages, more than half the population has been killed.

Rescuers are digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco in a desperate bid to find survivors after more than 2000 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades.