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BY CARA ANNA NAIROBI, KENYA The fighters now retaking parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region will pursue soldiers from neighboring Eritrea back into their country and chase Ethiopian forces to Addis Ababa ”if that’s what it takes” to weaken their military powers, their spokesman said Tuesday, as a conflict that has killed thousands of civilians looked...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there. The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world’s worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying,” the head...

England: Mo Farah will not race for a third successive 10,000 metres gold medal in Tokyo this year after he again failed to make the Olympic qualifying time in the British Athletics Championships on Friday: his last realistic chance to do so. Farah, 38, who also won double Olympic gold in the 5,000m, needed to...

A claim that South African woman Gosiame Sithole gave birth to 10 babies earlier this month is not true, an official inquiry has found. No hospitals in Gauteng province have a record of decuplets being born, the provincial government says. Medical tests show that Ms Sithole had not even been pregnant recently, it said. The...

South Africa says it will take tough action against those who incite violence against foreigners Hassan Isilow  JOHANNESBURG  Refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa continue to live in fear of being attacked by xenophobic elements in the country where migrants are often targeted because of their nationality. “Many foreigners came under attack recently in...