Start Here explains why Ethiopia's new dam on the Nile river has Egypt worried about its water supply being cut off.

Immigration ministers of three countries meet in Cairo for talks aimed at resolving dispute over water distribution.

Nigeria is looking to claim $62 billion from international oil firms for back revenues it says it is owed -- but even the country's own oil minister admits the government has little chance of success. ...

At 9.15am this morning (23 September) Lough Ree RNLI Lifeboat volunteers were tasked by the Irish Coast Guard in Malin Head to come to the assistance of one person on board a 70 foot motorboat which ha...

Le procès des cinq hommes accusés d'avoir planifié les attentats du 11-Septembre, dont le cerveau auto-proclamé de l'attaque Khaled Cheikh Mohammed, devrait s'ouvrir en janvier 2021 sur la base milita...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah El Sisi said on Sunday he hoped differences with Ethiopia over the likely reduction of its share of Nile?s water by a dam being built by Addis Ababa would be resolved whe...

Rescue workers said Friday they had plucked the bodies of 62 migrants from waters off the Libyan coast a day after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this year. About 145 migrants wer...

Libya's Red Crescent said Friday its rescue workers had recovered the bodies of 62 migrants a day after one of the deadliest shipwrecks this year in the Mediterranean. Our Red Crescent teams have pulle...

A putrid odour lingers outside a morgue in Tunisia's coastal city of Gabes as dozens of bodies of would-be migrants to Europe pulled out of the sea await burial. A string of deadly shipwrecks since May...

Africa Cup of Nations champions Algeria arrived home Saturday to a hero's welcome from a huge crowd of joyful supporters and a water salute for their plane at Algiers airport. One, two, three, viv a Al...