Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

The men recently had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment for their role in an attempted coup last May in the ...

Pope Francis visited 10 African countries during his five trips to the continent, promoting inter-religious dialogue and ...

Prominent Trump supporter Erik Prince has agreed to help Democratic Republic of Congo secure and tax its vast mineral wealth, ...

A letter intended to be a "candid update" from the new state Democratic Party chair exposes party divisions and threats to ...

South Sudan says the revocation of U.S. visas for all its nationals is incorrectly based on an incident that involved the ...

Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic world, and observers say Pope Francis did a lot to raise the profile ...

For today’s Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja hears from two Congolese people who met the pope as students, Mpongo Simon and Christine Mwanini, and speaks to Father Desmond Nair, a Catholic Priest of the ...

El Salvador Set Up Trap for Democratic Senator Trying to Visit Prison Senator Chris Van Hollen appears to have fallen in a trap deliberately set up to stop him from visiting wrongly deported ...