On 9 February, Ali Bongo Ondimba celebrated his 66th birthday alone in his huge villa at La Sablière in Libreville, Gabon’s capital. Well, almost alone: his mother Joséphine Kama, known as Patience ...

Gabon’s military leader announced Monday that he would run as a candidate in the oil-rich central African nation’s presidential election set for April 12. Gen. Brice ...

See the likely path and wind arrival times for Alfred. More than 333,000 customers in areas affected by the storm were without power Saturday, according to the electricity company Energex.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred formed in the Coral Sea Saturday evening Australian Eastern Time, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 40 miles ...

Thousands of residents are mopping up in the wake of ex-Cyclone Alfred, which has damaged homes and cars, flooded roads and gouged out beaches. Despite all this, the damage could have been so much ...

Anthony Albanese said the impacts of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred are already being felt across parts of Queensland and New South Wales, with the hours ahead expected to bring more downpours.

As ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred lashes the Queensland and NSW coasts, keep an eye on the wild weather via these live-streaming webcams — if they don’t fall over. The webcams cover locations in ...

March 8 (UPI) --Tropical storm Alfred could cause significant flooding in eastern Australia despite the slowly moving storm no longer being a cyclone. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on ...

Cyclone Alfred, which weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday, seems to have spared the region the worst of its potential impact. However, hundreds of thousands of homes in south ...

There is a high probability Cyclone Alfred, currently around 1,000 kilometres offshore, will cross one of the most highly populated stretches of the Australian coast next week. While the Bureau of ...

SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - Ex-tropical cyclone Alfred lingered off the south-east Australian coast on Saturday and forecasters said Brisbane is likely to miss the worst of the storm, a relief for ...