Africa

Rights groups have said Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act has unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly by private individuals.

The superseding indictment alleges Menendez “provided sensitive U.S. Government information and took other steps that secretly aided the Government of Egypt.”

The designation could cut off some military aid to Niger, which might harm the U.S. counterterror effort against ISIS in Africa.

A joint venture between Swiss company Climeworks and Kenya-based Great Carbon Valley has been billed as a springboard for creating a new, green economy in Africa.

The Anti-Homosexuality Act prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, and at least 6 people have been charged under it.

The announcement was a significant blow to France’s policy in Africa, with its troops having had to pull out of neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso in recent years after coups there.

Abraham Teklu Lemma had a top secret security clearance and access to classified information at the departments of State and Justice.

Thousands of people have been killed, with thousands more missing, in a disaster that survivors and experts told NBC News was not merely natural. 

The country's anti-gay law includes a prison term of up to 14 years for those convicted and bans same-sex relationships and memberships to LGBTQ groups.

Angry protesters set fire to the house of the man who was Derna mayor at the time of the flood.

Residents and aid groups gathered the bodies of those who were washed out to sea when historic rain caused dams to burst and sent millions of cubic meters of floodwater through the center of Derna.