Congolese authorities say that an attempted jailbreak in the country's main prison has left 129 people dead, including some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility
September 03, 2024
Six people wanted for murder and extortion were killed in a shootout with South African police in the city of Durban late on Monday, police said.
September 03, 2024South Africa's economic growth picked up in the second quarter, supported by higher consumer spending and power availability, but output declines
September 03, 2024
A Ugandan athlete has been attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is being treated for burns on 75% of her body
September 03, 2024
One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and religious leaders, piling pressure on
September 03, 2024
At least 129 killed during mass prison break attempt in DR Congo
September 03, 2024
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and set shops and homes
September 03, 2024
A year after Morocco's devastating earthquake in the High Atlas mountains only some 1,000 homes out of 55,000 under reconstruction have been rebuilt, according to
September 03, 2024
African immigrant students sometimes experience negative stereotyping, marginalization and low expectations from teachers. But emerging research shows they are being mischaracterized.
September 03, 2024
Libyan authorities say a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving one person dead and 22 missing
September 03, 2024A former top official at South Africa’s state-owned passenger railway company has received a 15-year concurrent prison sentence for faking his engineering qualifications and other cases of fraud
September 03, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a British national and two Nigerians the police want to charge with treason and inciting the army following
September 03, 2024
Uganda's main opposition leader Bobi Wine, who has emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, was shot in the leg by security agents in a northern
September 03, 2024
Uganda's leading opposition figure Bobi Wine has been shot in the leg and “seriously injured” in a confrontation with police outside the capital, Kampala
September 03, 2024
Federal prosecutors have dropped their criminal case against a Maryland attorney whom they accused of engaging in a scheme to fraudulently access more than $12.5 million in Somali government assets
September 03, 2024China vowed to encourage its more "powerful" companies to invest in Nigeria, which in turn said it was open to Chinese companies building factories
September 03, 2024
Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine ‘seriously injured’ during police confrontation, his party says
September 03, 2024
China kicks off major African summit as it seeks to woo leaders amid pressure from the West
September 03, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will open the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit on Thursday, where he is expected to urge African leaders gathered in Beijing
September 04, 2024
China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese
September 04, 2024
Kenya's private sector activity picked up in August as firms recovered from disruption caused by anti-government protests the previous month, a survey showed on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
South African private sector activity rose in August as firms received higher volumes of new orders for the first time since April 2023, a survey showed on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo, epicentre of an mpox outbreak that prompted a U.N. declaration of a global public health emergency, said it expects to
September 04, 2024
Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes
September 04, 2024
South African business confidence rose in the third quarter, helped by improving optimism about the business climate after the formation of a coalition government and stable electricity
September 04, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Wednesday ordered the detention of presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel pending trial, the latest move in what critics call manoeuvres
September 04, 2024
A China-Africa summit in Beijing this week takes place as a continent slowly emerging from a series of defaults seeks to define its future cooperation with the
September 04, 2024
Families of those killed in what officials called an attempted jailbreak in Congo’s biggest prison are demanding answers as activists denounce what they say are inhumane conditions in the nation’s overcrowded penitentiaries
September 04, 2024
Binance's head of financial compliance Tigran Gambaryan, on trial for money laundering in Nigeria, will know on Oct. 9 whether he will be released on bail or remain in prison custody
September 04, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that South Africa needed to pursue ambitious fiscal consolidation to restore the sustainability of its
September 04, 2024
Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa's main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its determination to withdraw
September 04, 2024President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday to step up China's support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly $51 billion over three years, backing
September 05, 2024
African countries' inadequate access to debt relief and scarce resources is a recipe for social unrest, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on
September 05, 2024
China-Africa ties ‘best in history’ claims Xi as Beijing pushes back on Western debt trap criticism
September 05, 2024
Dozens of African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit that signals China’s influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in pushing back against a U.S.-led global order
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, in
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated for burns over 80% of her body from an attack by her partner
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being set on fire by boyfriend
September 05, 2024
The impact of global warming is costing African nations up to 5% of their economic output, the United Nations climate chief said on Thursday, calling for more
September 05, 2024
South Africa's current account deficit narrowed in the second quarter, to 0.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) from 1.5% of GDP in the first quarter, central bank data showed
September 05, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive its first batch of 100,000 mpox vaccines from the European Union on Thursday, with a second delivery expected in the coming days
September 05, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically passed away days after suffering severe burns from an attack by her boyfriend. CNN International Correspondent Larry Madowo joins World Sport's Amanda Davies for more.
September 05, 2024
Authorities in Congo say the first batch of mpox vaccine has arrived in Congo’s capital, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency
September 05, 2024
The World Bank and French Development Agency (AFD) have given Uganda more than $600 million to fund infrastructure development and manage waste in the capital Kampala, the
September 05, 2024
Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s tragic history of domestic violence against female athletes
September 05, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he did not believe Chinese investments in Africa were pushing the continent into a "debt trap" but were
September 05, 2024
Ghana invited holders of roughly $13 billion of its international bonds to swap their holdings for new instruments on Thursday, more than two months after
September 05, 2024Tunisian legal scholars warned on Thursday that the legitimacy of next month's presidential election will be damaged if the electoral commission does not respect court
September 05, 2024
Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday despite being released for
September 05, 2024
A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said.
September 06, 2024
Kenya's deputy president says a fire in a school dormitory has killed 18 students and injured 27 others
September 06, 2024
U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war
September 06, 2024
Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect
September 06, 2024
17 students killed in Kenya elementary school fire as officials say 70 remain unaccounted for
September 06, 2024
South Africa’s justice minister has denied corruption allegations against her related to a mutual bank scandal in which thousands of retirees lost their life savings
September 06, 2024
The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
September 06, 2024
Moureen Atieno Omolo was unable to sleep for days after hearing about the deadly attack on Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, whose former boyfriend doused her in
September 06, 2024
The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox
September 06, 2024
Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term, but early turnout
September 06, 2024
Xi Jinping had one message for dozens of visiting African leaders: choose China
September 07, 2024China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion)
September 07, 2024
Algerians have voted in an election to decide whether army-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gets another term in office — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power
September 07, 2024
Officials say the number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to 21
September 07, 2024
Authorities say a vaccination campaign against mpox in Congo will begin Oct. 2, with workers focusing on the three most affected provinces first
September 07, 2024
Fire contained at girls’ school in Kenya a day after blaze at boys’ dormitory that killed 21
September 07, 2024Libya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of a militia leader and one of his aides pending an investigation into the killing of one of the country’s most notorious human traffickers
September 08, 2024Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country's Saturday presidential
September 08, 2024
A fire broke out at a girls' boarding school in a town in central Kenya late on Saturday, leaving at least three students injured and destroying property, the Kenya Red Cross and
September 08, 2024Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues
September 08, 2024
A senior United Nations official says more than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that wrecked the northeastern African country
September 08, 2024Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday's election on Sunday, but a rival candidate alleged irregularities
September 08, 2024
Paris pays tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei who died after allegedly being set on fire by her boyfriend
September 08, 2024
Floods from torrential rains killed at least 11 people in the provinces of Tata, Tiznit and Errachidia in south Morocco, authorities said in a preliminary death toll on Sunday.
September 08, 2024After being declared the winner of Algeria’s election, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has joined his two challengers in criticizing the country’s election authority for announcing results that contradicted earlier turnout figures and local tallies
September 08, 2024
At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state's disaster
September 08, 2024Nigeria's emergency response agency says a fuel tanker has collided head-on with another truck causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people
September 08, 2024The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and
September 09, 2024At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed an assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a
September 09, 2024
At least six people died after a boat capsized off Senegal over the weekend, a spokesperson for the West African country's armed forces said on Monday.
September 09, 2024Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.63 tons of cocaine found on an airplane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country's capital, the judicial police said.
September 09, 2024Nigeria's state security service arrested the president of its largest labour federation on Monday on charges that are yet to be disclosed, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said.
September 09, 2024Forty-seven inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison in Liberia's Margibi County, a rural area east of the West African country's capital Monrovia, the justice ministry
September 09, 2024Authorities in Liberia say that dozens of inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison outside the country's capital over the weekend
September 09, 2024Floods from torrential rains killed at least 18 people in the southern Morocco provinces of Tata, Tiznit, Errachidia, Tinghir and Taroudant, authorities said in a latest
September 09, 2024At least 21 killed in airstrike on Sudanese market as civil war rages
September 09, 2024
Election officials in Tunisia have doubled down on their decision to deny accreditation to certain election observer groups
September 09, 2024
Torrential downpours hit North Africa’s normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend
September 09, 2024
The man accused of dousing in petrol and setting alight Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from burns sustained during the fatal attack on the
September 10, 2024
Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public
September 10, 2024Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country
September 10, 2024
The Senegalese navy on Tuesday found 17 more bodies from a boat carrying migrants that capsized off the coast, taking the death toll to 26.
September 10, 2024Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two,
December 01, 2024
Mali's government said on Sunday it had killed a senior Tuareg rebel commander and other rebels in a drone strike on a town in the north of the country.
December 01, 2024Biden fulfilling promise to visit Africa as US looks to counter China’s deepening influence in region
December 01, 2024
Ghana's parliament is unlikely to pass a provisional budget before the Dec. 7 general election, former officials and experts say, which risks triggering
December 01, 2024
The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's landslide victory
September 10, 2024
Cameroon’s former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence
September 11, 2024
Kenya’s airport workers’ union has called off a strike that grounded flights in the country’s main airport on Wednesday over awarding the contract for its modernization and operations to an Indian firm
September 11, 2024
Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali
September 11, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said he would sign into law a disputed education bill, prompting the first sign of real friction in his unity
September 11, 2024
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods
September 11, 2024
A Nigerian judge on Wednesday granted bail to 10 people charged with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny following last month's protests against
September 11, 2024Floods that swept through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state have affected up to 1 million people, the state governor said on Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to
September 11, 2024
Members of Kenya's aviation workers' union have agreed to resume work after spending the day on strike, the head of the country's umbrella trade union organisation said on
September 11, 2024
The flood that crashed through the Libyan town of Derna a year ago killed Hassan Kassar's four children and left him homeless in a wrecked city, where reconstruction has been
September 11, 2024
Burkina Faso's prime minister said on Wednesday scores of civilians killed in an attack by Islamist militants while digging defensive trenches on army orders had not been adequately
September 11, 2024More than a dozen primary school students in Kenya died after a fire ripped through their dormitory. CNN's Larry Madowo has more details about the tragedy.
September 11, 2024
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria
September 11, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo will start its mpox vaccination campaign on Oct. 2, nearly a week earlier than previously planned, the head of its outbreak response said on
September 11, 2024
Algerians expected an uneventful election that would bestow President Abdelmadjid Tebboune a second term
September 11, 2024
The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island
September 12, 2024
Zimbabwean farmers aim to capitalize on increasing global demand for blueberries, but self-funded growers like Willard Zireva cite a lack of finance and minimal
September 12, 2024
Guinea Bissau's President Umaro Cissoko Embalo said on Thursday he would not run for a second term in elections in November.
September 12, 2024
Rich countries have several hundred million doses of vaccines that could help fight an mpox outbreak in Africa, where donated shots fall far short of
September 12, 2024
The South African Reserve Bank will cut its repo rate by 25 basis points to 8.00% at its Sept. 19 meeting as slowing inflation opens the door to easier policy
September 12, 2024
More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison
September 12, 2024The biracial children of Kenyan women and visiting British soldiers have long lived uncomfortable lives in Kenya
December 01, 2024The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in a week, a toll the agency's director-general described as “not acceptable.”
September 12, 2024
Morocco on Thursday confirmed its first Mpox case in a man in Marrakech, the health ministry said.
September 12, 2024
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency's head said on Thursday
September 12, 2024
Senegal was hit by a nationwide electricity outage on Thursday following an accident at a power station in the capital, Senegal's power utility Senelec said in a statement.
September 12, 2024Senegal's president has dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament, paving the way for a snap legislative election after he took office on an anti-establishment platform
September 12, 2024
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday dissolved the opposition-led national assembly, clearing the way for early legislative elections on Nov. 17.
September 12, 2024
The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for African nations
September 12, 2024
The World Food Program's director is appealing for more money and access to feed 25 million people at risk of famine in Sudan
September 12, 2024Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died
September 13, 2024
A team of staff from the International Monetary Fund is visiting Kenya on a fact-finding trip, the IMF said late on Thursday, part of efforts to craft a way forward in the wake of
September 13, 2024
The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — has been received by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial on Saturday
September 13, 2024
The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting against the disease in Africa
September 13, 2024
Botswana's ex-president Ian Khama appeared in court on Friday to face charges of illegally owning a gun and receiving stolen property, after returning from three years in exile
September 13, 2024
Kenya's acting chief of police was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday after he repeatedly defied orders to testify about the whereabouts of three men allegedly abducted by
September 13, 2024South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the durability of his unity government on Friday, after a row over a contentious education bill exposed tensions
September 13, 2024
Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana
September 13, 2024
German and Kenyan officials have signed an agreement to promote the recruitment of skilled Kenyan workers who can fill gaps in Germany’s labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don’t have the right to stay in Germany
September 13, 2024
A military court in Congo has convicted 37 people, including three Americans, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt and sentenced them to death
September 13, 2024
Three U.S. citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for their role in a May failed coup in Democratic Republic of
September 13, 2024
South Sudan's government has decided to postpone a long-delayed national election until December 2026, the presidency said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing the
September 13, 2024Thousands of Tunisians marched in the streets on Friday to protest against President Kais Saied, whom they accuse of trying to rig the Oct. 6 presidential election by
September 13, 2024
President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Angola in coming weeks, fulfilling an earlier promise that would make him the first U.S. head of state to visit sub-
September 13, 2024
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
September 13, 2024
A military court in Congo has convicted dozens of people, including three Americans, for a coup attempt
September 13, 2024
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, more than 430 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya
September 14, 2024
Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was buried
September 14, 2024
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya
September 14, 2024
Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei
September 14, 2024
Germany opens its doors to Kenyan workers in controlled migration deal
September 14, 2024
On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya.
September 14, 2024
Sierra Leone ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in Beyoncé video, dies aged 29
September 14, 2024
Comoros president Azali Assoumani is "out of danger" after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later,
September 14, 2024
Algeria's constitutional court confirmed on Saturday that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won a second term with 84.30% of the vote in an election on Sept. 7, state media reported
September 14, 2024
Tunisia's highest court on Saturday ordered the electoral commission to reinstate two candidates for a presidential poll in October, warning that failure to do so
September 14, 2024Algeria's constitutional court has certified President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory in last weekend’s election after re-tabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question
September 14, 2024
South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile was fine after having struggled with the heat while giving a speech on Saturday afternoon, the premier of Limpopo province told state
September 14, 2024
Nigeria's army has rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped in northwest Kaduna state, following a military operation prompted by a tip-off, a government official said
September 14, 2024Roadside explosions in the Somali capital have killed five people and wounded eight others
September 14, 2024Nigeria's army says that troops have rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped by an extremist group in the northwestern state of Kaduna
September 14, 2024At least three people were killed and 49 others wounded in a collision between two passenger trains in Zagazig city northeast of Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024Moroccan authorities on Sunday prevented dozens of migrants from storming a border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after calls on social media for a
September 15, 2024A boat has capsized in northwest Nigeria drowning at least 40 people
September 15, 2024Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday.
September 15, 2024
More than 200 inmates escape as Nigerian prison wall collapses in floods
September 15, 2024
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will introduce new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from a West African bloc in favour of a new Sahel alliance after military leaders
September 15, 2024
Kenya's auditor general has started to examine the country's debt to ascertain the amounts owed to various creditors, Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Monday.
September 16, 2024
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September 16, 2024
Nigerian authorities say 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s northeast
September 16, 2024WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push to start the
September 16, 2024
Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta
September 16, 2024
Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought
September 16, 2024
A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete
September 16, 2024
Unidentified armed men killed two police officers on patrol in northeastern Benin near the border with Niger on Sunday, a local official said on Monday.
September 16, 2024South Sudan and Sudan have made progress towards restarting the pumping of South Sudan's crude oil through a pipeline running to a port in its neighbour, South Sudan's finance
September 17, 2024
Mali said on Tuesday that its capital Bamako was under control after insurgents attacked a gendarmerie training school and
September 17, 2024
South Africa's consumer confidence recovered further in the third quarter to its best since 2019, helped by improved willingness to spend and hopes of an interest rate cut in September,
September 17, 2024
Kenya's finance ministry forecasts a fall in the budget deficit to 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2025/26 fiscal year that starts next July, from 4.3% of GDP in the
September 17, 2024
Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali's capital, but some soldiers were killed
September 17, 2024
Senegal's slower economic growth, its widening fiscal deficit and a potential delay in International Monetary Fund financing could cloud the outlook ahead of Nov.
September 17, 2024
Ten civilians were killed in a midnight attack by the CODECO militia on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, the head of
September 17, 2024In Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many households have limited access to nutrient-rich foods due to rising costs and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems
September 17, 2024
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the richest governments should increase their support for African countries
September 16, 2024
On an island off Africa where one of the local languages has no established words for climate change, a researcher discovers lessons for everyone in discussing climate change.
September 17, 2024
Whitney Houston’s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall
September 17, 2024
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon plans to travel to Africa in mid-October in a push by the biggest U.S. lender to expand on the
September 17, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has held productive discussions with the Kenyan government on its plans to address the country's economic and fiscal challenges,
September 17, 2024
Three Americans sentenced to death in Congo for a coup attempt have filed an appeal
September 17, 2024
Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party on Tuesday held nationwide protests against alleged voter roll irregularities, demanding
September 17, 2024
Zimbabwe and Namibia plan to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries
September 17, 2024
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been sworn in for a second term after being elected in a landslide vote marred by apathy and questions around the vote count
September 17, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Sudan's warring parties to re-engage in negotiations to end a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months.
September 18, 2024
Jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have escalated attacks on civilians, often in retaliation against communities for refusing to join their ranks or allegedly collaborating with
September 18, 2024
Mali's security situation remained unclear on Wednesday after insurgents attacked an elite police training academy and other strategic
September 18, 2024
Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams
September 18, 2024
A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming beside her catamaran in high seas between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa, a police spokesperson said on
September 18, 2024The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries
September 18, 2024
A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 20 months in prison, Zammel's lawyer said, the latest move that has heightened
September 18, 2024Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they are open for peaceful solutions to a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months, in response to U.S.
September 18, 2024
Nigeria has warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon
September 18, 2024
Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher
September 19, 2024
Five months after its launch, Zimbabwe's new currency is under pressure as increased grain imports eat away at foreign reserves, putting at risk the government's
September 19, 2024
When floods swept through Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents to safety.
September 19, 2024
International guarantors of South Sudan's peace process said the transitional government's postponement of elections due in December was disappointing and showed its failure to
September 19, 2024
Turkey aims to meet separately with Somalia and Ethiopia as part of its efforts to resolve a dispute between the sides over a deal that Ethiopia agreed to lease a stretch of
September 19, 2024Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists brought it back
September 19, 2024A candidate for president in Tunisia has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on election fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated
September 19, 2024South Africa's central bank struck a measured tone after its first rate cut in more than four years on Thursday, saying although
September 19, 2024
Calm seas and gentle winds associated with the late summer in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Africa has prompted a renewed surge of migrants heading to the
September 19, 2024
The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) warned on Thursday, adding that cases were still increasing
September 19, 2024
The African health agency says that Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses it obtained from Nigeria
September 19, 2024
Coca-Cola plans to invest $1 billion in its Nigeria operations over the next five years, the country's presidency said after a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and senior
September 19, 2024
An elaborate attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Mali's capital this week killed some 70 people, diplomatic and security sources said on Thursday, while the government offered no figures on
September 19, 2024
Morocco has arrested 152 people, who will now face trial on accusations they used social media to incite an attempt at mass illegal migration into the adjacent
September 20, 2024As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region
September 20, 2024
Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies
September 20, 2024
Ghana's electoral commission on Friday published a list of 13 candidates approved to run in the presidential election, which analysts say will be a two-man race between Vice President
September 20, 2024
It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in Africa's second-worst affected country will
September 20, 2024
Monrovia house fire arson investigators find dead body in a shed nearby
September 20, 2024A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of
September 20, 2024
Guinea’s most wanted fugitive, a former senior military officer convicted of crimes against humanity, was extradited from neighboring Liberia, the Guinean minister of justice said Thursday
September 20, 2024The Birimian greenstone belt in West Africa has long been known as region rich in gold, but its potential has yet to be fully unearthed. Now, international and local mining players are driving a modern-day gold rush in Ivory Coast in search of this lucrative metal.
September 20, 2024
The son of Uganda's long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday he had abandoned plans to run for presidency at the next election in 2026, urging his
September 21, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the
September 21, 2024
People living near a chimpanzee research centre in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the centre's managers said.
September 21, 2024Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons
September 21, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya's anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full
September 21, 2024
The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat
September 22, 2024
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied, accusing him of deepening authoritarian rule and stifling political competition two weeks
September 22, 2024
Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing
September 22, 2024Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months
September 23, 2024
Nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been reported in Africa so far this year, most of them in Democratic Republic of Congo where tests have run out, the World Health
September 23, 2024
Tanzanian police arrested three opposition leaders again on Monday, their party and police said, to stop anti-government protests in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
September 23, 2024
The head of South Africa's flagship Black economic empowerment programme plans to introduce additional incentives and potential fines to improve corporate participation and
September 23, 2024
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's economy remains deeply divided by race, spurring political debate on the extent to which its flagship
September 23, 2024
An Egyptian warship has delivered a second major cache of weaponry to Somalia including anti-aircraft guns and artillery, port and military officials said on Monday
September 23, 2024
At least 30 decomposing bodies were found in a boat drifting around 70 km (38 nautical miles) off the coast of Senegal's capital Dakar, the military said on Monday.
September 23, 2024A group of South Sudanese lawyers filed a case to the country's top court on Monday challenging the president's postponement of elections and extension of the transitional
September 23, 2024
Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons
September 23, 2024Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers.
September 24, 2024
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature Wole Soyinka reflects on his novels, poetry, and plays. The laureate also eloquently recounts the extraordinary activism that influenced his work and inspired a movie out this year about his time under political incarceration in Nigeria.
September 24, 2024
Somalia accused Ethiopia of smuggling weapons on Tuesday amid fears that arms going into the conflict-riven Horn of Africa nation could end up in the hands of Islamist militants.
September 24, 2024
Lawyers and families of jailed Tunisian opposition leaders are calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate a crackdown on political opposition and the abuse of Black African migrants in the North African country, which has been offered European Union financial support to help rein in migration
September 24, 2024Top Zimbabwean retailers have warned of potential store closures if the government insists on the use of an official exchange rate they deem overvalued and damaging their
September 24, 2024
Nigerian officials seized 19.4 kg (42.77 pounds) of cocaine worth 4.66 billion naira ($2.93 million) from a passenger who arrived at Lagos airport on a flight from
September 24, 2024Burkina Faso's junta said it had uncovered an international plot to overthrow it and which included the massacre in August of hundreds of civilians by Islamist
September 24, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Germany and Angola Oct. 10-15, the White House said on Tuesday, in what will be his first visit to Africa as president.
September 24, 2024
The White House says President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa next month
September 24, 2024
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023
September 24, 2024
Plans by African governments to raise money on China's domestic debt markets via so-called panda bonds could be undone by their heavy debt
September 25, 2024
Kenyan police out of uniform and with no official identification fired live rounds at demonstrators at the country's parliament complex in Nairobi on June 25, Amnesty International
September 25, 2024
Norwegian police say they have detained a German national of Cameroonian heritage for allegedly inciting crimes against humanity in Cameroon, the first time Norway is embarking on legal proceedings for such crimes
September 25, 2024Pregnant women, mothers and newborn babies are dying at a shocking rate in Sudan's South Darfur region and thousands of malnourished children are on the brink of starvation, medical
September 25, 2024Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man on suspicion of incitement to crimes against humanity in Cameroon, and they sought an Oslo court's permission to keep him in
September 25, 2024Eswatini’s main opposition party claims its leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt
September 25, 2024
The remains of 49 freedom fighters who died while exiled in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa have been returned to the country
September 25, 2024
A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to six months in prison on Wednesday on charges of falsifying documents, his lawyer told Reuters, the second prison
September 25, 2024Benin's state prosecutor said on Wednesday a former sports minister and a prominent businessman have been detained on suspicion of plotting a coup.
September 25, 2024The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday its executive board approved an arrangement of about $210 million for Liberia, with an immediate disbursement of about $8
September 25, 2024
Prosecutors in junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched investigations against French journalist and researcher Wassim Nasr, accusing him of being an "apologist
September 26, 2024Sudan's army launched artillery and airstrikes in Sudan's capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with
September 26, 2024
Grieving relatives and former classmates bid a solemn farewell on Thursday to 21 children who died in a boarding school fire in central
September 26, 2024
Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak
September 26, 2024
Prosecutors in military junta-ruled Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso launched investigations on Wednesday against the French journalist and researcher Wassim Nasr into what they called his “apology of terrorism” and “complicity” in alleged terrorist acts, in the latest action against the Western media
September 26, 2024Kenya will deploy additional police officers to Haiti to help the government there fight armed gangs as part of a 2,500-strong multinational force, President William Ruto said on
September 26, 2024
Bavarian Nordic said on Thursday it has signed an agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for one million doses of its mpox vaccine, Jynneos, for countries in Africa
September 26, 2024
At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least $2
September 26, 2024
The head of Sudan's army said on Thursday that he supported efforts to bring an end to a devastating war in his country as long as they brought an end to the "occupation" of territory by
September 26, 2024
Nigeria's military has killed dozens of leaders of armed militia groups and hundreds of fighters across the country following a renewed offensive in the third quarter
September 26, 2024Benghazi ‘mastermind’ Ahmed Abu Khatallah resentenced to 28 years in prison
September 26, 2024
Algerian authorities resumed visa requirements for Moroccan nationals entering the country on Thursday, state news agency APS reported, accusing its neighbour of abusing visa-free
September 26, 2024
Over $800 million has been pledged to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for its fight against a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency's head said on
September 26, 2024
Shots have been fired near the presidential palace in Guinea’s capital Conakry, and the army briefly locked down the city center and evacuated it
September 26, 2024Senegal is in discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to take corrective measures after an audit revealed that its debt and budget deficit were much wider than the
September 26, 2024The head of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said on Thursday that the faction remained ready to implement a nationwide ceasefire in its war with the army and allow for the
September 26, 2024
Tunisia's parliament approved a law stripping the Administrative Court of its authority to adjudicate electoral disputes on Friday, nine days before the presidential
September 27, 2024
Uganda's government plans to cut spending by just over a fifth and domestic borrowing by just over a half in the 2025/26 (July-June) fiscal year, the finance ministry said on
September 27, 2024Prince Harry’s latest philanthropic move will gather world business leaders and philanthropists to work towards fostering prosperity in Southern African communities
September 27, 2024
Zambia is aiming for a sharp rebound in economic growth and a halving of its budget deficit next year as it recovers from the worst drought in living memory, its
September 27, 2024Senegal's sovereign dollar bonds fell on Friday after a government audit revealed larger debt and deficit figures than the previous administration had reported,
September 27, 2024
A leading rights group says Rwanda’s army and a militia it backs shelled camps for displaced people in eastern Congo
September 27, 2024Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied
September 27, 2024
The World Bank said it is rolling out measures to ensure the recipients of lending to Uganda are not discriminated against by a tough anti-gay law.
September 27, 2024
International Monetary Fund staff and Ethiopia have reached an agreement on economic policies to conclude the first review of a four-year $3.4 billion loan arrangement, the IMF
September 27, 2024
South African police said on Saturday that they had launched an investigation into the mass shooting of 17 people in a rural village in Eastern Cape province.
September 28, 2024Police in South Africa say 17 people have been killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town
September 28, 2024
Manhunt underway after 17 people killed in South Africa mass shooting
September 28, 2024At six people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and a town in the country's Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses
September 28, 2024
Hopes of finding any of the 48 migrants missing since their boat sank near the Spanish island of El Hierro are diminishing, authorities
September 29, 2024
Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing from an earlier sea wreck that may be the deadliest such
September 30, 2024
Kenyan lawmakers plan to launch impeachment proceedings against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of undermining the government, parliament's majority leader said,
September 30, 2024
At least 12 people died, including three infants, and 10 others were missing after their boat sank on Monday off the Tunisian coast at Djerba as they sought to cross the Mediterranean
September 30, 2024Equatorial Guinea asked judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to reject Gabon's claim to several islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of
September 30, 2024
Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus
September 30, 2024
A forum set up by Egypt's president began discussing on Monday a possible shift in the country's subsidy programme towards paying cash directly instead of offering food products at
September 30, 2024
Mozambique will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct. 9, marking the end of President Filipe Nyusi's two-term tenure.
September 30, 2024Rwanda is dealing with its first outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease
September 30, 2024
At least 24 people were killed by an airstrike on a village in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, residents and a local councillor said on
September 30, 2024Doctors Without Borders says that it treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed groups vie for power
September 30, 2024
Reactions to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo
September 30, 2024
South African manufacturing activity increased in September, recovering from the previous month's slump as demand rose and an interest rate cut boosted sentiment, the Absa-
October 01, 2024
Major shareholders at the International Monetary Fund are urging Kenya to request an IMF assessment of corruption and governance issues as part of a push to unlock
October 01, 2024
Forty-five migrants have died after two ships wrecked sank off the coast of the East African nation of Djibouti with many still missing, a spokesperson for the United Nations migration
October 01, 2024
While a vast majority of the 1,312 NHL games through June will take place in North America, the spotlight this season is on international play
October 01, 2024
Kenya's inflation fell to 3.6% year-on-year in September from 4.4% a month earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Mozambicans will vote in presidential and legislative elections on Oct. 9 that are almost certain to extend the ruling Frelimo party's half century in power,
October 02, 2024
Chowdeck is hungry for Nigeria’s food delivery market. One day, it wants to be a ‘super-app for Africa’
October 02, 2024
Kenya's central bank rate should start lowering its lending rate due to falling inflation in recent months, Finance Minister John Mbadi said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Two men close to Benin’s president who were arrested last week on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country have been remanded in custody ahead of their trial
October 02, 2024
Ghana's consumer inflation rose in September after slowing for five consecutive months, driven by an increase in food prices, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Rescuers are searching for more than 100 migrants off the coast of Djibouti after smugglers forced them to jump into the sea, the U.N. migration agency said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country
October 02, 2024
Authorities in Nigeria say that more than 100 people are missing after a boat carrying them at night capsized in the northwestern part of the country
October 02, 2024Prince Harry is visiting the mountain kingdom of Lesotho where he co-founded a youth charity in 2006 in honor of his late mother Princess Diana
October 02, 2024
The U.N. migration agency says two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, killing 45 people
October 01, 2024
Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday filed a petition to the high court in Nairobi seeking to halt an impeachment process
October 03, 2024
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country's long-serving intelligence chief, replacing him with a close ally, state broadcaster SSBC reported, citing a
October 03, 2024
Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to
October 03, 2024At least 60 people were killed after a boat carrying mostly women and children returning from a religious festival in Nigeria's northern Niger state
October 03, 2024Mozambique's ruling party candidate in this month's elections, who is almost certain to win, is likely to continue relying on Rwanda's military and European
October 03, 2024
Kenya's private sector saw a slight deterioration in business conditions in September as output and new orders contracted again, reversing the brief recovery seen in August,
October 03, 2024
Tanzania's central bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 6%, it said on Thursday.
October 03, 2024A Congolese governor says at least 78 people have died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo
October 03, 2024
At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a
October 03, 2024
Ghana received the approval for more than 90% of bondholders to restructure and exchange $13 billion of international debt, it said on Thursday, clearing the last hurdle in its protracted
October 03, 2024
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths.
October 03, 2024
Libya's eastern-based government and Tripoli-based National Oil Corp (NOC) announced on Thursday the reopening of all oilfields and export terminals after a dispute over leadership
October 03, 2024Rescuers are searching for dozens of migrants from Africa still missing after smugglers apparently forced them out of two boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti earlier this week
October 03, 2024
Gilead Sciences said on Thursday it would donate about 5,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir to the Rwanda Medical Supply for emergency use in response to the Marburg virus outbreak.
October 03, 2024
A Tunisian appeal court on Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence handed down to presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel, his lawyer said, two days before the vote is held.
October 03, 2024Ghana's health service has reported the country's first case of mpox this year, without disclosing which variant had been recorded, according to a statement.
October 03, 2024
South Africa’s Constitutional Court says it will hear a case next month brought by two opposition parties to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa
October 03, 2024
The United States and four other countries discussed the need to finalize plans for the new African Union stabilization and support mission in Somalia, the U.S.
October 03, 2024Tunisia's President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning another term in the country's presidential election Sunday
October 04, 2024
Nigerian private sector activity expanded for the second straight month in September as new orders rose, especially for chemical and pharmaceutical products, results of a central
October 04, 2024
The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost land in farm invasions under former leader
October 04, 2024
After almost 18 months of war, fighting in Sudan is escalating as seasonal rains end with the army using intensified airstrikes and allied
October 04, 2024
A cholera outbreak has hit Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, already reeling from floods that displaced nearly 2 million people, an official said on Friday.
October 04, 2024
Supporters and opponents of Kenya’s deputy president have clashed at public forums over an impeachment motion against him, which was introduced in parliament by the ruling alliance this week
October 04, 2024
International Monetary Fund staff and officials in Ghana have reached an agreement on their third review of the West African country's $
October 04, 2024
Russia's mercenary Wagner group has told the family of a Russian fighter captured alive in Mali that he has now died, according to text messages seen
October 04, 2024
Tunisia's election on Sunday pits President Kais Saied, who rights groups say has removed most democratic checks on his power, against a candidate who was suddenly
October 04, 2024
For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region
October 04, 2024
The International Criminal Court on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes.
October 04, 2024Hundreds of Tunisians marched in the capital on Friday, escalating protests against President Kais Saied, two days before what they say is an unfair presidential vote in which Saied
October 04, 2024
Congolese authorities have started vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several other African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency
October 05, 2024
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Saturday his Congolese counterpart had refused to sign an agreed deal to help resolve the M23 rebel conflict in
October 05, 2024
Congolese health officials launched their first mpox vaccination campaign on Saturday, a key step in efforts to contain an outbreak
October 05, 2024
Migrant worker Fajima Kamara came to Lebanon three years ago from Sierra Leone, but when Israeli jets started pounding her neighbourhood
October 05, 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath
October 05, 2024
Supporters of current Tunisian President Kais Saied began celebrations in the capital on Sunday night after an exit poll broadcast on state television showed him
October 06, 2024
Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people
October 06, 2024
Rwanda said on Sunday it had begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to try to combat an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease in the east African country, where it
October 06, 2024Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won re-election in landslide victory after a campaign season saw his opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys
October 06, 2024
Mozambicans will vote this week for a new president who many hope will bring peace to an oil- and gas-rich northern province that has been ravaged by a jihadist insurgency for nearly seven years
October 07, 2024
Intra-Africa trade could double in next five years, says Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area
October 07, 2024
At an unlicensed gold mine in Ghana, men in t-shirts, shorts and rubber boots wade through pools of muddy water laced with mercury,
October 07, 2024
Three suspects accused of breaking into South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm in 2020 and stealing millions of foreign currency in cash will
October 07, 2024
More than 350 people have died from cholera in Nigeria in the first nine months of this year, a 239% jump from the same period last year, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease
October 07, 2024
UNICEF says that recent fighting between the Sudanese military and its rival paramilitary in Sudan’s North Darfur killed at least 13 children and injured four others
October 07, 2024
Three suspects appeared in a South African court on Monday accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of cash from President Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm in 2020,
October 07, 2024
One of five inmates who staged a spectacular escape from a high-security prison near Lisbon a month ago has been recaptured in Morocco, Portuguese police said on Monday, while the
October 07, 2024Six Moroccan migrants escaped through a hole in the ceiling of a holding room in Madrid's international airport, police union Jupol said on Monday, in a new embarrassment for
October 07, 2024
Rescue efforts were underway after a mine pit collapsed in Zambia's Mumbwa District, killing 10 people and injuring five, police said on Monday.
October 07, 2024Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won reelection in a landslide victory after a campaign that saw opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys
October 07, 2024
Kenya’s deputy president has defended himself while facing an impeachment motion in which he's accused of supporting anti-government protests in June and of being involved in corruption and other irregularities
October 07, 2024
Preliminary results showed President Kais Saied won a second term in the Tunisian election with 90.69% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday.
October 07, 2024
A U.S. congressional watchdog has found no evidence that a 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conflict minerals disclosure rule has
October 07, 2024
Mozambicans are expected to turn out in large numbers on Wednesday for an election that will choose a successor to President Filipe Nyusi after his two terms
October 08, 2024
Whoever wins Mozambique's presidential election on Wednesday will face an economy battered by worsening cyclones, insecurity, delays to
October 08, 2024
Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan's most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides
October 08, 2024
A case of mpox has been found in Nakasongola jail in central Uganda, a prison spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the patient had been isolated and was
October 08, 2024
Mozambicans will vote on Wednesday in an election that is almost certain to see the ruling party Frelimo maintain its half-century grip on power, despite a
October 08, 2024
Kenya's parliament voted on Tuesday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on charges including enriching himself and stirring ethnic
October 08, 2024
Before his highly anticipated Benin City homecoming concert, Nigerian singer Rema tells CNN's Larry Madowo why his hometown will always have his heart.
October 08, 2024
Burkina Faso's junta has suspended U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America for three months over comments about a jihadist insurgency in West Africa's Sahel region, and temporarily
October 08, 2024The United Nations is considering suspending relief operations, including food aid deliveries, in Ethiopia's Amhara region, following
October 08, 2024
Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the
October 08, 2024The war in Sudan could cost countless more lives if immediate action is not taken, as famine and disease spread while fighting intensifies and aid workers struggle to gain access, a senior
October 08, 2024Sudan's health ministry says cholera cases in the country have increased by almost 40% across 11 of the total 18 states in less than two weeks, alarming the U.N. health officials
October 08, 2024
Kenya's central bank slashed its benchmark lending rate to 12.00% from 12.75% on Tuesday, in a move aimed at stimulating credit to the private sector, the bank's
October 08, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the younger brother of the head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, accusing him of leading the paramilitary
October 08, 2024Cameroon's 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, is in good health, the government said on Tuesday in a statement, calling widespread reports saying
October 08, 2024
Kenya’s lawmakers have approved a motion to impeach the country’s deputy president, following daylong discussions and after Rigathi Gachagua appeared in parliament to defend himself against several charges, including allegations that he supported anti-government protests in June
October 08, 2024Vote counting started in Mozambique on Wednesday evening for an election that is widely expected to deliver another victory for the
October 09, 2024
Russia's Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and prime minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire J.
October 09, 2024
Mozambique began counting votes in a presidential election that could extend the ruling party’s 49 years in power, though the opposition already was alleging fraud and manipulation
October 08, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of creating obstacles in ongoing negotiations to resolve the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Congo that has displaced more
October 09, 2024
Eric Mbonigaba recovered from mpox after four weeks in hospital but the Burundian motorcycle taxi driver says he has since fallen victim to stigma
October 09, 2024
Ethiopia's bondholders will have to take a writedown as part of the country's debt restructuring, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign told Reuters, adding he
October 09, 2024
Kenya's senate will next week debate whether to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, the senate speaker said on Wednesday, after the national
October 09, 2024
Algeria excluded French companies from a wheat import tender this week and required that participating firms did not offer French-origin wheat, in
October 09, 2024
The leader of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, accused Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops in a
October 09, 2024
The Logone river in Chad's capital has risen to its highest level in 30-40 years, the authorities said on Wednesday, threatening further turmoil to a country that has been
October 09, 2024Russia has recruited about 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students, including teenagers, assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine
October 10, 2024
The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others
October 10, 2024
Votes were being counted by Mozambique's national election authorities on Thursday as civil society monitors were compiling a parallel tally to try to detect
October 10, 2024
The head of Africa’s top public health agency says that an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg fever in Rwanda is under control and that travel bans to the East African country are unnecessary
October 10, 2024
An overhaul of Egypt's high school curriculum has left teachers and pupils scrambling to adjust, laying bare strains on state education
October 10, 2024
Prosecutors say South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t face criminal charges over a hidden cash scandal that was revealed more than two years ago and triggered an investigation by a special police unit
October 10, 2024
Maryland Zoo honors zoologist for her work to preserve, research elephants in Africa
October 10, 2024Spain's Interior Minister on Thursday asked the European border agency Frontex to seek permission from African nations to patrol their waters in a bid to "save lives" on the
October 10, 2024
Rights activists and local responders said scores of civilians had been killed at sites across Sudan in the past week as the army escalates air strikes nearly 18
October 10, 2024Independent presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane on Friday threatened to call a nationwide strike and bring Mozambique to a standstill if
October 11, 2024
Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said on Friday during a visit by the Haitian
October 11, 2024
Kenya's high court ruled on Friday that a case challenging Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment should be referred to the Chief Justice.
October 11, 2024
Cameroon has outlawed any discussion about the health of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, a letter shared by the interior ministry said, after Biya's
October 11, 2024
Medical charity MSF says it has been forced to suspend work in the vast camp for displaced people where famine has been confirmed in Sudan's North Darfur region, putting
October 11, 2024
Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines
October 12, 2024
Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work
October 12, 2024
South Africa's former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said late on
October 13, 2024
Comoros will hold elections to its 33-seat parliament on Jan. 12, according to a decree published on Saturday, although opposition parties have said they will boycott the poll.
October 13, 2024
Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said on Sunday, without specifying which variant had been recorded.
October 13, 2024
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October 14, 2024Nigeria's air force is acquiring 24 Italian-made M-346 attack jets and ten AW-109 Trekker helicopters as part of a fleet renewal strategy, a spokesperson said on
October 14, 2024The World Bank said on Monday it had lowered its economic growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa this year to 3% from 3.4%, mainly due to the destruction of Sudan's
October 14, 2024
Uganda's government and Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi signed a contract to build a 272 kilometre (169 miles) section of railway, in a bid to boost
October 14, 2024A regional partnership for Nile River basin countries says an agreement on the equitable use of water resources has come into force despite the notable opposition of Egypt
October 14, 2024
The government of Congo has canceled an auction for 27 sites earmarked for oil exploration, citing late submissions and a lack of competition
October 14, 2024
The International Criminal Court prosecutor is renewing an investigation in Congo and focusing on allegations of crimes committed in the conflict-torn North Kivu province in the central African nation’s east since early 2022
October 14, 2024Nigeria to boycott AFCON qualifier against Libya after players claim they were left stranded at airport overnight
October 14, 2024
The Egyptian health ministry says a bus crashed and overturned on a highway in northeastern Egypt, killing 12 people and injuring 33 others
October 14, 2024
Kenya is moving 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in what has been hailed as a conservation success
October 14, 2024
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday his office will renew an investigation into Democratic Republic of Congo,
October 14, 2024Ukraine denied late on Monday media reports that it has been involved in supplying drones to rebels fighting in the north of Mali.
October 14, 2024Father-of-seven Dah Toubada Kadapia stood on a stack of homemade sandbags in his backyard in Chad's capital N'Djamena, surrounded by
October 15, 2024
Nigeria's inflation rate rose in September for the first time in three months, advancing to 32.70% in annual terms from 32.15% in August, the statistics agency
October 15, 2024
The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades
October 15, 2024
Kenya's courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week's Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment from going ahead.
October 15, 2024
Police in Haiti said that a leader of one of that country's powerful gangs has been injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year
October 15, 2024Kenya’s High Court has rejected an application by the deputy president’s lawyers to stop the senate from debating an impeachment motion against him after parliament voted to remove him from office last week
October 15, 2024
A man charged with killing 18 people in mass shootings in two separate homes on the same night in South Africa has abandoned his bail application and remains in custody
October 15, 2024Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief
October 15, 2024The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
October 15, 2024
"The main difference is the culture."JD Sports CEO Régis Schultz discusses how his company adjusts its strategy to appeal to various global markets, as the retailer expands to 4,500 total stores.
October 15, 2024
Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis
October 16, 2024JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. lender, plans to enter Kenya and Ivory Coast this year and grow its footprint in Africa, CEO Jamie Dimon told
October 16, 2024
Kenya's senate began impeachment hearings against Kenya's deputy president on Wednesday, hours after a court said the proceedings were constitutional,
October 16, 2024
Toll rises to 153 from Nigeria fuel tanker explosion
October 16, 2024
More than 140 people, including children, are dead in Nigeria after an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel
October 16, 2024
A fuel tanker overturned late on Tuesday in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa after the driver lost control of the vehicle, spilling petrol which
October 16, 2024
Mozambique's ruling party Frelimo was leading provisional election results in all 11 provinces on Wednesday, while opposition parties cried fraud and one called for
October 16, 2024
President Joe Biden is heading to Germany this week and will go to Angola in December
October 16, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Saturday he and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni would help mediate between Ethiopia and Somalia in a dispute that threatens to destabilise
November 30, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said a staff team had visited Senegal to start assessing the implications of data revisions resulting from a government audit of past and
October 16, 2024
Zimbabwe says it will compensate local and foreign white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in farm seizures meant to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism
October 16, 2024The conservative Dutch government is looking into sending rejected African asylum seekers to Uganda, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Thursday, while acknowledging it might not
October 17, 2024
Kenya's senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on five out of 11 charges levelled against him
October 17, 2024
Nigerian authorities have announced measures to correct lapses that resulted in the death of more than 140 people in an explosion as they were trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned fuel tanker on Wednesday
October 17, 2024
South Africa's central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, said on Thursday that the country could move to a lower inflation target at little cost.
October 17, 2024
The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-
October 17, 2024
Africa's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits
October 17, 2024
The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara is suggesting that dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front could be one way to settle the decades-long conflict
October 17, 2024
Kenya’s Senate has voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest pains
October 17, 2024
Nearly 1,000 endangered animals repatriated to Madagascar in anti-trafficking landmark
November 30, 2024
Congo needs to do more to raise awareness about mpox and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said on
October 18, 2024
The government of Ivory Coast has announced a ban on all student union associations following the death of two students and the arrest of 17 suspects
October 18, 2024Tunisian court sentenced on Friday the prominent official in Ennahda opposition party Noureddine Bhiri to 10 years in prison, on charges of attacking state security and inciting
October 18, 2024
Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party said Saturday
October 19, 2024Gunmen killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing multiple rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, rights groups
October 19, 2024
A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 aircraft bound for New York made an emergency stop due to a technical incident at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal on Saturday, the West
October 19, 2024
Hussein Hachem hugged his injured daughter as she arrived in Senegal on a flight repatriating citizens escaping the escalating conflict in Lebanon.
October 20, 2024
Sudan's army said on Sunday a commander from its foe the Rapid Support Forces had defected with some of his troops, the first such move by a senior figure since the two
October 20, 2024Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the absence of new infections or deaths in the past six days
October 20, 2024Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after
October 20, 2024
Kenya's impeached deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, said on Sunday his security protection team had been withdrawn and that President William Ruto would be responsible if
October 20, 2024
Idris Elba is building an entertainment industry in Africa
October 20, 2024
Nigeria has blocked Shell's sale of its entire onshore and shallow-water oil operations, but approved a similar deal by Exxon Mobil, the country's upstream oil regulator said on
October 21, 2024
Mozambique police on Monday fired teargas and bullets at protesters in the capital Maputo who had gathered at the scene where two opposition party figures were shot dead on Saturday
October 21, 2024
The M23 rebel group has seized the town of Kalembe in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding its reach in the region, an official and a former lawmaker said on Monday.
October 21, 2024Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas at the country's leading opposition politician and supporters as he spoke with reporters
October 21, 2024
South Africa's mid-term budget review later this month is expected to show healthier public finances, but economists say it might be too early to loosen the
October 21, 2024
Kenya said on Monday said it had handed over four Turkish refugees after accepting an extradition request by Ankara despite Amnesty International raising concerns they could face
October 21, 2024Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur
October 21, 2024
Cameroon's 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, returned to the country on Monday after a 42-day absence that had sparked questions about his health and
October 21, 2024
The U.S. government on Monday condemned the weekend killings by gunmen of two Mozambique opposition figures ahead of protests against a disputed election
October 21, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo's army on Tuesday said it had taken back the eastern town of Kalembe, a day after it was seized by M23 rebels, but rebels said they still controlled
October 22, 2024Tunisian President Kais Saied has been inaugurated for a second term, following a monthslong crackdown and string of arrests against his political opponents
October 22, 2024The mystery surrounding a crashed cargo plane in Sudan purportedly downed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has deepened as authorities insist the aircraft had been de-registered in Kyrgyzstan
October 22, 2024
South Africa sees Russia as a valued ally, President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a bilateral meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, on the eve of the BRICS summit of
October 22, 2024
European Union election observers have flagged irregularities in Mozambique’s election as the country awaits the announcement of official results this week
October 22, 2024
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked villages in the east of Sudan's El Gezira state, killing at least 25 people, following the defection of high-ranking RSF officer
October 22, 2024
Police in Uganda say least 11 people including children were killed when a fuel truck exploded next to a highway on Tuesday
October 22, 2024
Ten bodies were recovered from the scene of a fuel tanker explosion in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
October 22, 2024Rwandan genocide survivors have told their testimonies at a Paris court where a former doctor is on trial for his alleged role in the 1994 mass killings of more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them
October 22, 2024At least eight people including children were killed and 20 injured in a drone strike at a fair in Mali's northern Timbuktu region, Tuareg rebels said on Tuesday.
October 22, 2024A Swiss woman was killed earlier this month in Algeria, which has in recent years aimed to attract tourists and put a history of instability and terrorism in the Sahara in the past
October 22, 2024Nearly half of Africa's citizens live in a country where governance has worsened over the past decade, as deteriorating security erodes progress, according to a new
October 22, 2024
Devastating rains that triggered deadly floods in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan in recent months were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists
October 23, 2024
South Africa's inflation dropped sharply in September, hitting its lowest level in more than three years and bolstering expectations for another interest rate cut by the
October 23, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has reshuffled his 45-member cabinet, naming seven new ministers, sacking five and reassigning 10 others to new portfolios, a
October 23, 2024
A plane downed in Sudan's North Darfur state had Russian crew members and was being used by the army to resupply the
October 23, 2024
Nigeria's decision this week to block Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore assets has sent a negative signal to investors the country urgently needs to
October 23, 2024
Botswana holds a national election on Oct. 30, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi favourite to win a second term against three challengers in a nation his
October 24, 2024
Egypt's economic growth will increase to 4.0% in the year to the end of June 2025 as austerity measures imposed under an International Monetary Fund programme run
October 24, 2024
(This Oct. 24 story has been corrected to clarify that Atimpe is a researcher on preventing violent extremism, not an expert on extremist groups, in paragraph 25) By David Lewis and Maxwell Akalaare
October 24, 2024
African playwright and actor Oliva Ouedraogo's “Queen” depicts the fictional journey of a girl who is raped by her stepfather on the night of his marriage to her mother, and decides to speak out against her family’s wishes
October 24, 2024Mozambique's ruling party Frelimo has retained power in this month's national election, extending its five-decade rule in the Southern African
October 24, 2024
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday against Mirghani Idris Suleiman, a leading figure in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) efforts to get weapons for the war against
October 24, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has announced plans to establish a commission to explore revisions to the country's constitution, potentially removing term
October 24, 2024
Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer and critic of President Kais Saied, was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday on charges of insulting her country, her lawyer said.
October 24, 2024An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds
October 24, 2024
At least three people died when a helicopter crashed in Nigeria on its way to an offshore oil production facility on Thursday, the state-owned oil firm NNPC said.
October 24, 2024The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the size of Egypt's $8 billion loan programme is "still appropriate", and that it will assess as a priority how effective
October 24, 2024
Moazmbique’s ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election amid claims of rigging by the opposition
October 24, 2024
King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean nations push
October 25, 2024
King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
October 25, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Djibouti next week to attend a Turkey-Africa ministerial meeting and discuss improving cooperation between Ankara and the
October 25, 2024
Thomas Kwoyelo, a mid-level commander in the notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Uganda on Friday for war crimes including murder,
October 25, 2024
Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African nations calling on former colonial powers to
October 25, 2024
Zimbabwe's consumer inflation surged to 37.2% month on month in October in local currency terms, data showed on Friday, after a sharp devaluation in the southern African
October 25, 2024
A court in Uganda has sentenced a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s
October 25, 2024
The grandson of South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, says the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas
October 25, 2024
A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies
October 25, 2024
A well-known Tunisian attorney and commentator is facing two years in prison for remarks she made about Tunisia and its treatment of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa
October 25, 2024Ivory Coast's former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said on Friday he would seek the nomination of the opposition PDCI party for the country's 2025 presidential election,
October 25, 2024
A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine
October 25, 2024
Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war
October 25, 2024
Ghana's government on Saturday rejected Reuters reporting on Islamist militants in Burkina Faso that found they are discreetly using neighbouring Ghana's north as a logistical and
October 26, 2024Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 124 people in a village in El Gezira State on Friday, activists said, in
October 26, 2024124 killed as Sudanese paramilitary group attacks village, doctors and activists say
October 26, 2024Ethiopian runner Yomif Kejelcha made every second count as he broke the men’s half-marathon record by just one second
October 27, 2024A doctors group and the United Nations say fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town
October 27, 2024
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco, kicking off a state visit with a series of bilateral agreements, including major investments in renewable energy and transportation
October 28, 2024
Botswana will hold a general election on Wednesday with President Mokgweetsi Masisi competing against three challengers for a second term in the diamond-rich
October 28, 2024
Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of 16 migrants off the coast of the towns of Maloulech, Salakta and Chebba, the national guard said on Monday, the latest migrant boat
October 28, 2024Six children who died in a South African township earlier this month had ingested a chemical compound used in pesticides, the country's health minister said on Monday, in a
October 28, 2024Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad's Lake region over the weekend, the central African country's presidency said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west
October 28, 2024
The United States on Monday announced a visa restriction policy for individuals Washington deems responsible for undermining democracy in Ghana, ahead of the December
October 28, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday for its support to help protect civilians in war-torn Sudan,
October 28, 2024
The U.N. chief says Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying hunger and disease for millions
October 28, 2024
South Africa has delivered a nearly 5,000-page document to the United Nations’ top court
October 28, 2024Morocco agreed to buy high-speed trains from French company Alstom on Monday, one of a series of business deals signed during President Emmanuel
October 28, 2024
Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a militant attack earlier this year
October 29, 2024
Authorities say a boat carrying 13 Egyptian migrants to Europe has capsized off Libya’s coast, killing all on board except for one person
October 29, 2024
Nigeria based fintech Moniepoint has raised $110 million in new funding from investors including Google to scale up digital payments and banking solutions across Africa, the company
October 29, 2024
The head of the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that over 14 million people had fled their homes in Sudan, either inside the country or over its borders,
October 29, 2024
The International Organization for Migration says the war in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people, or about 30% of the population, since it broke out over a year ago
October 29, 2024Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allies have committed "staggering" levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex
October 29, 2024
‘A disability is not inability’: How this blind soccer league is changing lives in the world’s newest country
October 29, 2024
Fifty years after Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire, the fight still has lasting legacy in the country now known as Congo
October 29, 2024
A dozen Egyptian migrants are feared dead after their boat capsized off the coast of the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk on Monday, two Egyptian security sources said, while one man
October 29, 2024Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a decision by an appeals court nullifying the 2023 finance law, a victory for the government after protests forced President William Ruto
October 29, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron told Morocco's parliament on Tuesday the disputed territory of Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, reiterating in person a statement
October 29, 2024
The United States condemns attacks on civilians by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and called on them to halt violence against civilians, the State Department said on Tuesday.
October 29, 2024
Minnesota missionary killed in "act of violence" in Africa, church says
October 29, 2024Botswana started voting on Wednesday in an election that will determine whether President Mokgweetsi Masisi secures a second term, with slowing economic growth
October 30, 2024
Botswana is holding a national election and voters are deciding if one of Africa’s longest-ruling parties stays on for another five-year term
October 30, 2024
A Paris court on Wednesday sentenced a Rwandan former doctor to 27 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country
October 30, 2024For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
October 30, 2024
With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that
October 30, 2024
Suspected cult members attacked a village in Uganda, killing at least eight people, including a child as young as three and members of the assailants' families, authorities said on
October 30, 2024Somalia has announced the expulsion of an Ethiopian diplomat, marking a further souring of relations between the neighbouring countries related to a port deal Addis
October 30, 2024
At least 10 people were shot dead and another 63 injured by gunfire during post-election protests in Mozambique last week, medical associations said on Wednesday, as the country
October 30, 2024
South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana told Reuters on Wednesday that he was not yet convinced about lowering the country's inflation target, a move
October 30, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the seventh and eighth reviews of Kenya's program, the IMF said on Wednesday, paving the way for the cash-
October 30, 2024
Two medical groups in Mozambique say at least 10 people were fatally shot by police and 63 others sustained gunshot wounds when authorities cracked down on unrest following the presidential election
October 31, 2024
Moroccan police have arrested a high-profile human rights activist Fouad Abdelmoumni on suspicion of reporting a false crime and spreading fake news on social media.
October 31, 2024Kenya's high court on Thursday lifted orders barring the swearing-in of newly appointed deputy president Kithure Kindiki, whose predecessor has launched legal challenges over his
October 31, 2024
A Moroccan economist known for his work defending human rights has been detained after criticizing the government in remarks posted on social media during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the North African kingdom
October 31, 2024LONDON - Private equity giant Carlyle Group has sold its majority holdings in Tunisia-focused oil and gas producer Mazarine Energy to the company's CEO Edward van Kersbergen, Mazarine said on Thursday
October 31, 2024
Botswana's voters delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades, registering their anger over economic stagnation linked to a
November 01, 2024
The party of Botswana’s opposition candidate Duma Boko has been declared the election winner over incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi in a seismic change that ended the ruling party’s 58 years in power since independence from Britain
November 01, 2024
Kenya's new Deputy President Kithure Kindiki was sworn in on Friday after a court lifted orders barring his inauguration following weeks of legal challenges by his predecessor, who
November 01, 2024
Kenyan hair braider Jemima Atieno spent decades building her business in Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market, only to lose ground to social media after the pandemic as
November 01, 2024
Algeria has pardoned a journalist who emerged as a key voice during the country’s 2019 pro-democracy protests and was later imprisoned for taking foreign funding for his media outlets and threatening state security
November 01, 2024
Kenya’s new deputy president has been sworn into office, two weeks after his predecessor was overwhelmingly voted out in an impeachment motion in parliament over allegations of corruption and inciting ethnic division
November 01, 2024
Angola's government anticipates a budget deficit of 1.65% of gross domestic product in 2025, slightly higher than this year's projected 1.46% deficit, draft budget documents showed.
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
South African manufacturing activity grew in October for the second month in a row, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed, the first time since early 2023
November 01, 2024
Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one third jump from this year due to
November 01, 2024
A Moroccan human rights activist will go on trial charged with spreading fake news, offending institutions and false reporting after accusing the kingdom of using migration and
November 01, 2024The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan says the team found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls
November 01, 2024
Nigeria charged 76 people, including 30 minors, with treason and inciting a military coup after they took part in deadly August protests against economic hardship,
November 01, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Friday reported attacks on civilians by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces as
November 01, 2024
Twenty-nine minors in Nigeria could be facing the death penalty
November 01, 2024
Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”
November 02, 2024
Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda refugee camp, police say
November 03, 2024Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands won the men’s race at the New York City Marathon and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya took the women’s event
November 03, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio is planning to launch its first hybrid model in 2026 and will only sell it in overseas markets, including the Middle East, North Africa and
November 04, 2024
Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of
November 04, 2024
Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's
November 04, 2024
Wife of missionary killed in Angola arrested in connection to his death, church says
November 04, 2024Nigerian President Bola Tinubu directed that all minors detained during anti-government protests in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped,
November 04, 2024Nigeria and Britain said on Monday they had established a strategic partnership to boost economic growth, strengthen security cooperation and enhance personal ties.
November 04, 2024At least 25 people died off Comoros islands after traffickers capsized their boat on Friday night, the United Nations' migration agency IOM said on Monday, the third such incident
November 04, 2024Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the release of 29 children facing the death penalty after being arraigned for allegedly participating in protests against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation
November 04, 2024A Kenyan man has been convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on a U.S. building on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab
November 05, 2024South Africa's private sector maintained its growth trajectory in October, bolstered by a decline in business costs and selling prices, a Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)
November 05, 2024
The International Monetary Fund has raised Ethiopia's net international reserves target to facilitate payments of upcoming hard currency bills, the Fund said.
November 05, 2024
Britain's Prince William paid a visit to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday in Cape Town after taking a nature walk with rangers and conservationists at Table
November 05, 2024
A Nigerian court freed 119 people including minors on Tuesday, after the authorities dropped charges against them arising from deadly protests in August against
November 05, 2024Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on sex in government offices after private videos leaked on social media appeared to show a senior finance ministry official having sex
November 05, 2024
South Africa and Britain have agreed to boost trade and defence cooperation, the two countries' foreign ministers said after meeting on Tuesday.
November 05, 2024
Nigerian authorities have released 29 children who have been detained for over two months and potentially faced the death penalty for their alleged participation in protests against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis following growing calls for their release
November 05, 2024Sharks and Springbok hero Lukhanyo Am says that South Africa have a strong chance of making history by becoming the first country to win three World Cups in a row. Speaking in our latest installment of African Voices Playmakers series, the fleet-footed centre opened up about the secrets to South Africa's success, as he highlighted how head coach Rassie Erasums had unified the squad.
November 28, 2024
From South Africa to Morocco, CNN's Marketplace Africa takes a look at the continent's most successful stock exchanges.
November 29, 2024
MTN believes diversifying their portfolio is key to continued growth in their business across the continent. CNN's Rahel Solomon sat down with CEO Ralph Mupita to discuss everything from the digital economy to the company's focus on fintech.
November 29, 2024
Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species − Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei − living in the same place at the same time.
November 28, 2024
At least 27 people died when a boat capsized on the Niger River in central Nigeria, the local emergency management agency said on Friday.
November 29, 2024A French plan to significantly reduce its military presence in West and central Africa risks backfiring and further diminishing the former colonial
November 29, 2024
Chad’s government says it is ending a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, to redefine the nation's sovereignty
November 29, 2024
Authorities say 27 people have died and at least 100, mostly women, are missing after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria
November 29, 2024Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said on Friday he has asked for an independent review of a confidential draft agreement with Britain over the future of the Chagos
November 29, 2024
The death toll from a landslide triggered by heavy rain in eastern Uganda has climbed to 17, a government spokesperson said on Friday, with more than 100 others missing.
November 29, 2024
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November 29, 2024
Ghanaians are set to vote on Dec. 7 for a new president to replace Nana Akufo-Addo, who has served the maximum two terms.
November 29, 2024
At least 18 people died when a boat carrying passengers heading to a market in Cameroon's Far North region capsized, a local administrative official said
November 29, 2024Kenya's inflation edged up to 2.8% year-on-year in November, from 2.7% a month earlier, the statistics office said on Friday.
November 29, 2024
Ghanaians go to the polls on Dec. 7 to choose a new president and parliament in an election investors are watching closely to determine how the winner will steer
November 29, 2024
Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths
November 28, 2024
South Africa takes over the G20 presidency on Sunday, the first African country to lead the forum, though its focus on issues such as inclusive growth and
November 29, 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre
November 28, 2024
One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals is openiong in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries
November 29, 2024
It was an alarming, even sickening, suggestion: Farmers in Zimbabwe hit hard by drought should farm maggots to feed their animals and boost their household incomes
November 29, 2024
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago
November 28, 2024
Fifteen people have died and at least 100 more are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried dozens of homes across several villages in eastern Uganda, the prime
November 28, 2024
Chad's government has terminated a revised 2019 defence cooperation agreement with France, a statement by its foreign ministry said Thursday.
November 28, 2024About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind
November 28, 2024
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia said on Thursday it has issued a cease-and-desist order to Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink for operating in
November 28, 2024
Britain is confident its plan to secure the future of a U.S.-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will
November 28, 2024
At least 15 people have died and 113 others are missing after landslides buried homes in six villages in eastern Uganda
November 28, 2024
Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday that Nigerian police used excessive force and shot protesters while cracking down on demonstrations in August over a cost of living
November 28, 2024
The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubbaland state said on Thursday it was suspending relations and cooperation with the federal government in Mogadishu following a
November 28, 2024
Greece's coast guard has recovered the bodies of four migrants - two women and two children - after their boat sank off the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, authorities said on
November 28, 2024Ghana's consumer inflation rose for the second month in a row in October, to 22.1% year on year from 21.5% in September, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
November 06, 2024
Inflation in Egypt is estimated to have climbed to 27.0% in October, pushed up by higher education costs and a fuel price increase in the middle of the month, according to a poll
November 06, 2024
British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa
November 06, 2024
An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on
November 06, 2024
Mozambican police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters in the capital Maputo on Thursday during the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party, which was
November 07, 2024
Prince William rode on a sea rescue boat along part of the South African coast as he wrapped up a four-day visit to Cape Town dedicated to promoting conservation and the battle against climate change
November 07, 2024
The Moroccan population grew to 36.82 million by September 2024, according to the preliminary results of a national census, the spokesman for the government said on Thursday.
November 07, 2024Judges at the International Criminal Court have unsealed an arrest warrant for an alleged rebel from the Central African Republic accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity more than a decade ago
November 07, 2024Nigeria's military has warned of a new insurgent group, Lakurawas, infiltrating the country's northwest region from neighbouring Niger and Mali, its spokesperson
November 07, 2024THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday unveiled an arrest warrant against a suspected leader of a militia that attacked Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR)
November 07, 2024At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late
November 07, 2024France said on Thursday that it was not aware of any official measures imposed by Algeria on its imports and exports, but would keep a close eye on the
November 07, 2024Thousands are protesting in Mozambique’s capital and police are responding by firing tear gas and rubber bullets as weeks of post-election unrest continued in the southern African country
November 07, 2024
Africa's main public health body said it is seeking assurances that U.S.
November 07, 2024
Nigeria's human rights commission will on Friday deliver its findings from an investigation into Reuters reports, which found the military ran a secret, systematic and illegal
November 07, 2024
Doctor Philip Moreira's commute to hospital on an electric bicycle is a dangerous, smog-infused weave through the chaotic traffic of Senegal's capital Dakar.
November 08, 2024
Authorities in Comoros have arrested a suspected people-smuggler in connection with an incident in which traffickers deliberately capsized a boat last week, killing at least 25
November 08, 2024Mozambique's largest hospital said on Friday that at least three people were killed and 66 injured during clashes between police and protesters the previous day over a disputed
November 08, 2024
Nigeria's human rights commission said on Friday an investigation had found "no evidence" that the Nigerian military deliberately attacked women and
November 08, 2024
The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital
November 08, 2024
The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military
November 09, 2024
At least fifteen people were killed and several others wounded when new insurgent group Lakurawas attacked a rural community in Nigeria's northwest
November 09, 2024South Africa's border authority said on Saturday it had partially reopened its main crossing with neighbour Mozambique, where last month's disputed election sparked protests,
November 09, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will call for an immediate ceasefire and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict when he attends the upcoming Arab-
November 09, 2024
Mauritius held a parliamentary election on Sunday in which Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his main rivals all promised to tackle a cost of living
November 09, 2024
At least 15 Chadian soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded in clashes between the army and Boko Haram fighters on Saturday, the army's spokesman said, adding that 96 Boko
November 10, 2024A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S.
November 11, 2024
Ghana's main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December's presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, placing him ahead
November 11, 2024
Chad's army says Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also left 96 of the assailants dead
November 11, 2024
Mauritius' incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Monday his political alliance was headed for a major defeat to a rival coalition led by a three-
November 11, 2024
Authorities in Ivory Coast say 21 people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a road accident
November 11, 2024Moroccan journalist Hamid Mahdaoui said he was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison on a charge of defamation against justice minister Abdellatif Ouahbi.
November 11, 2024Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and officials and residents said it killed 15 people
November 11, 2024Senegal will have to wait until at least June to get any sort of resolution of its lending programme with the International Monetary Fund
November 11, 2024
A Moroccan journalist who accused a prominent politician of fraud was sentenced prison for defamation on Monday in a case that has sparked international criticism from press freedom advocates
November 11, 2024African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril.
November 11, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan's warring parties cease hostilities and calls on them
November 11, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Monday that it reached a staff-level agreement for the fourth review of Zambia's loan program that would release about $185.5 million to
November 12, 2024
The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso
November 12, 2024
Mauritius’ opposition coalition has won the country’s election by a landslide
November 12, 2024
South Africa's unemployment rate fell in the three months after the formation of a coalition government that has boosted business confidence and led to hopes for
November 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024
Chad said on Tuesday it had approved the licensing of Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink to improve access to internet services in the central African country.
November 12, 2024
Mauritius' opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was appointed prime minister on Tuesday, returning to the post a decade on after his coalition won a near clean sweep of seats in
November 12, 2024
Ghana's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the speaker of parliament's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring
November 12, 2024The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a commander of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, accusing him of being involved in human rights abuses in
November 12, 2024
Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told
November 12, 2024
Veteran Mauritian politician Navin Ramgoolam was sworn in as prime minister for his fourth term on Wednesday, a decade after he last left power, following his
November 13, 2024
Voters in Somaliland flocked to the polls on Wednesday to choose a president at a time when the breakaway Somali region sees international recognition within reach
November 13, 2024
Sudan's sovereign council said on Wednesday it would extend the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad, seen as essential by aid agencies for the delivery of food and other
November 13, 2024
Senegal will vote in legislative elections on Sunday that will determine whether the new president and government can gain control over the
November 14, 2024
A committee of Guinean opposition groups, civil society organisations and activists known as the Forces Vives called on Tuesday for the West African country to establish civilian
November 12, 2024
Nigeria plans 47 trillion naira ($28.18 billion) spending for its 2025 budget, using an assumption of an oil price of $75 per barrel and target production of 2 million barrels per day
November 14, 2024
More than 61,000 people are estimated to have died in Khartoum state during the first 14 months of Sudan's war, with evidence
November 14, 2024
Ghana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary speaker's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring the ruling party’s majority in the legislature ahead of the Dec. 7 election
November 12, 2024
Nigeria's inflation rate rose for the second straight month in October, advancing to 33.88% in annual terms from 32.70% in September mainly due to higher food
November 15, 2024
Dozens of escaped residents of the besieged town of al-Hilaliya in Sudan's El Gezira state have tested positive for cholera, a medical
November 15, 2024
Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on
November 15, 2024
South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the
November 14, 2024
Mauritius President Prithvirajsing Roopun appointed Rama Krishna Sithanen as governor of the central bank on Friday, following a general election last weekend
November 15, 2024Ratings agency S&P revised South Africa's outlook to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, citing plans for accelerated economic reforms by the new government of national unity and a pickup
November 15, 2024
Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education - and their
November 16, 2024
Gabon held a referendum on a new constitution on Saturday, a major step towards establishing democratic rule after a coup ousted
November 16, 2024
A group of four Russian and Belarusian nationals, detained in the central African state of Chad for more than a month, flew back to Moscow on Saturday, Russian media reported.
November 16, 2024Nigeria and India on Sunday agreed to deepen collaboration in maritime security, intelligence and counter-terrorism during a state visit to the West African country by
November 17, 2024
Gabonese voters approved a new constitution by a landslide 91.8%, the interior minister said on Sunday, after a referendum that the junta in power promised would be a
November 17, 2024Expectations were growing that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's party would win Senegal's Sunday legislative elections after two opposition leaders
November 17, 2024
Britain will seek backing from other United Nations Security Council members on Monday for its demand that Sudan's warring parties stop hostilities and allow deliveries of aid, the
November 18, 2024
A likely absolute majority for President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Pastef party in Senegal's legislative election would empower him to pursue his ambitious 25-year
November 18, 2024
The new prime minister of Mauritius has announced an audit of the public finances days after his coalition won a resounding election victory, casting a shadow over the accuracy
November 18, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a
November 18, 2024
At least 13 people died when a building collapsed in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam and more than 80 people have been rescued, the country's president said on
November 17, 2024Russia on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that called on Sudan's warring parties to cease hostilities immediately
November 18, 2024
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan travelled to the African country for the first time on Monday to seek an increase in the flow of aid to millions of people in need and an
November 18, 2024
The U.N. political chief has accused allies of Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces of “enabling the slaughter” that has killed more than 24,000 people and created the world’s worst displacement crisis
November 13, 2024
The United Nations' annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small
November 13, 2024
Muhammad Awad and his family are among dozens who escaped Sudan's Tuti island earlier this year amid a siege by the Rapid Support Forces, finding refuge at a shelter after
November 18, 2024
Ghana is clamping down on private pension fund managers who want to invest in offshore assets on concerns it could worsen pressure on its cedi currency,
November 19, 2024African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships
November 13, 2024
More and faster aid deliveries are needed in Sudan, the U.S. special envoy to the war-weary country told Reuters, ideally through the implementation of humanitarian corridors and
November 19, 2024
Congo has opened an investigation into vandalism on Monday evening at the mausoleum housing the tooth - thought to be the only known remains - of independence hero Patrice Lumumba, the
November 19, 2024Unrelenting price rises and a brutal insurgency had already made it hard for Nigerians in northeastern Borno State to feed their families.
November 13, 2024
Namibians are set to vote for a new president and parliament on Nov. 27, after Hage Geingob died and was replaced as president on a interim basis by his
November 20, 2024The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur
November 13, 2024South Africa's inflation rate dropped sharply in October to its lowest level since the peak of the COVID pandemic, data showed on Wednesday,
November 20, 2024
At least 50 Boko Haram fighters were killed on Tuesday and seven members of Nigeria's infrastructure security force were missing following an insurgent ambush on a
November 20, 2024
Kenya has secured a $200 million loan from the African Development Bank and is in talks with the World Bank for a new $750 million loan, the finance ministry's head
November 20, 2024
Opposition politicians in Democratic Republic of Congo called on Wednesday for nationwide protests against President Felix Tshisekedi's plans to revise the constitution.
November 20, 2024
A veteran Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya at the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail
November 20, 2024
A Malian Islamist who helped run the police force imposing sharia law on Timbuktu after the city was captured by militants in 2012 was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the
November 20, 2024Southern Africa's regional bloc on Wednesday extended by a year its troop deployment in Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is helping the government fight rebel groups.
November 20, 2024
Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voiced broad support for converting a security mission helping Haitian police fight escalating gang warfare
November 20, 2024
South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan, who helped bring the first-ever FIFA World Cup tournament to Africa in 2010, has been arrested on fraud and theft charges
November 13, 2024Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said on Wednesday of the civilian who criticised the ruling junta's failure to organise
November 20, 2024
Rwanda's central bank held its key interest rate at 6.5% on Thursday after cutting it at the previous two rate-setting meetings this year.
November 21, 2024South Africa's central bank opted for another small cut to its main interest rate on Thursday, stressing a tough global
November 21, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of
November 21, 2024
Britain has barred Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash and has frozen their UK assets, the government
November 21, 2024
Kenya's government said it was investigating how a prominent Ugandan opposition leader was spirited out of Nairobi this week, amid growing criticism that it had
November 21, 2024
Mali's ruling junta on Thursday appointed its spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, as prime minister a day after firing Choguel Maiga who had criticised the administration, state
November 21, 2024
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Viatris Inc has been fined 7.58 million dirhams ($760,000) by Morocco's competition regulator for failing to notify it regarding its
November 21, 2024
Weeks of violent protests have marked the outcome of Mozambique disputed Oct. 9 elections, which saw ruling party Frelimo’s candidate Daniel Chapo declared the winner
November 13, 2024
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Pastef party has won 130 out of 165 seats in legislative elections, securing a clear majority in
November 21, 2024
The arrest of an Italian-Egyptian pornographic actor in Cairo is raising concern among officials in Italy, where feelings are still running high over the
November 22, 2024At least seven mercenaries from Russia's Wagner private military contractor group were killed in an attack in central Mali that was claimed by an affiliate of al Qaeda in North
November 22, 2024Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan's capital Juba on Thursday evening after security forces moved to arrest the former head of the intelligence service, according to Reuters
November 21, 2024
At least nine people, including seven children from one family, died in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rain triggered a landslide that swept away several
November 23, 2024Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African
November 25, 2024
At least 22 Somali citizens died when two migrant boats capsized off the coast of Madagascar over the weekend, Somalia's Information Minister Daud Aweis said.
November 25, 2024Two major Adani Group projects in Kenya were scuttled after its founder Gautam Adani was indicted by U.S. prosecutors over his alleged role in a $265 million bribery scheme - allegations
November 22, 2024
Nigeria's economy grew 3.46% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2024, quicker than in the first two quarters of the year, statistics agency data showed on
November 25, 2024
Libyan soldiers said on Monday they had detained more than 300 migrants who were crossing the desert and trying to make it to the shores of the Mediterranean.
November 25, 2024The wife of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has said she does not expect him to get a fair trial after he was detained in neighbouring Kenya, brought home and accused
November 25, 2024
Sixteen people including 12 foreign nationals are missing after a tourist boat sank off Egypt's Red Sea coast, the local government said on Monday.
November 25, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs legend Christian Okoye (prono: oh-co-ye) is better known to NFL fans as the “Nigerian Nightmare” - but before he was the first Nigerian position player to make it big in the NFL, he switched gears from a career in athletics to become one of the best running backs in NFL history. Okoye is our latest African Voices Playmaker. With more, here's our Larry Madowo.
November 14, 2024
Amnesty International said Thursday it has identified several UAE-made armoured personnel carriers on the ground in Sudan after verifying pictures shared on social media showing the vehicles captured or destroyed by the Sudanese army
November 14, 2024
South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal mining
November 14, 2024
Several hundred people are believed to be in an illegal mine in South Africa, with the government refusing to help them in a bid to force them to come to the surface. CNN's Victoria Rubadiri reports.
November 14, 2024
Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
November 14, 2024
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to surface illegal miners who remain under a disused gold mine
November 15, 2024
Some women who fled the war in Sudan say they face sexual exploitation as refugees in Chad
November 16, 2024Local officials in eastern Congo say at least 13 people were killed and others kidnapped by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group
November 16, 2024People in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president will be able to carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform
November 17, 2024
Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
November 17, 2024
Authorities in Gabon say voters have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution more than one year after mutinous soldiers overthrew the country’s longtime president and seized power in the oil-rich Central African nation
November 17, 2024Senegal's governing party is poised to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly
November 18, 2024
Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution Monday calling for an immediate cease-fire in the war between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces and delivery of humanitarian aid to millions in desperate need
November 18, 2024The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of vulnerable boats making the risky journey towards Europe
November 19, 2024
Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized
November 19, 2024
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is urging Libya and other nations to help arrest six men allegedly linked to a brutal militia blamed for multiple killings and other crimes in a strategically important western town where mass graves were discovered in 2020
November 20, 2024Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been charged with possession of a firearm illegally and seeking military support from abroad
November 20, 2024‘We don’t want to leave anyone behind,’ says Google’s Alex Okosi on the company’s drive to cut data costs in Africa
November 20, 2024
The International Criminal Court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he headed the Islamic police in Timbuktu in the west African country of Mali
November 20, 2024At least seven members of a Nigerian government protection agency are missing after their convoy was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents in north-central Nigeria, authorities said
November 20, 2024South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at an abandoned mine, apparently fearing arrest by police officers at the site
November 20, 2024Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission
November 21, 2024
Police in Finland have detained five suspects over their alleged involvement in separatist violence in southeastern Nigeria
November 21, 2024
Kenya’s president says he has cancelled multimillion-dollar airport expansion and energy deals with Indian tycoon Gautam Adani after U.S. bribery and fraud indictments against one of Asia’s richest men
November 21, 2024When Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo was first approached in 2019 by a Russian who suggested he help promote the activities of the Central African Republic’s army and Russian forces in the country, the journalist believed that he was doing the right thing
November 21, 2024
Heavy gunfire has erupted in South Sudan’s capital of Juba at the home of the country’s former spy chief who has been under house arrest for the past two months
November 21, 2024Three tennis players from Nigeria linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium have been banned for more than two years and fined $10,000 apiece
November 22, 2024A Zimbabwean court has convicted an opposition leader and 34 other activists on charges of participating in an unlawful gathering, more than five months after they were taken into pre-trial detention
November 22, 2024Voters waited in long queues outside polling stations in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday morning to cast their ballots for a new president and parliament
November 27, 2024
The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland on Wednesday jointly condemned the escalating violence against civilians in Mozambique, a
November 27, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it shot down a drone that was carrying weapons and crossed from Egypt to Israel.
November 27, 2024In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used apparel from the West
November 23, 2024
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high
November 24, 2024
Somalia's government says 24 people died after two boats capsized off the Madagascar coast in the Indian Ocean
November 24, 2024South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial segregation, has died in Paris
November 24, 2024
Namibia’s Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah could become the country’s first female president if she wins the presidential election Wednesday
November 25, 2024
Egyptian officials say a tourist yacht has sunk in the Red Sea after warnings of rough waters and 16 people are missing
November 25, 2024
Botswana’s recent election saw a high level of voter turnout and resulted in a smooth transfer of power.
November 25, 2024
At least five people were killed and 20 others are missing after a speedboat struck a submerged log and capsized in Nigeria's southern state of Delta, a police
November 26, 2024Libyan military officials say they have apprehended hundreds of migrants traversing the country’s vast desert
November 25, 2024South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) brought a case to the country's top court on Tuesday to try to revive impeachment proceedings against
November 26, 2024
Angola is not in talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new financial assistance programme, its finance ministry said on Tuesday, prompting a slide in its foreign
November 26, 2024
Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.
November 26, 2024
Gambian teenager Omar Kebbeh has a roof over his head on the Spanish island of El Hierro and enough to eat thanks to a man he calls his
November 27, 2024
Mozambique's central bank cut its main interest rate by 75 basis points on Wednesday, the sixth cut in a row, as inflation remains subdued in the southern African country.
November 27, 2024
Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for seven missing people, the Red Sea
November 26, 2024
More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudanese government, a World Food Programme
November 26, 2024
The annual UN climate conference ended with a weaker deal than many countries hoped for, and with calls to overhaul the climate talks for the future.
November 26, 2024
Mali’s junta has taken popular news broadcaster Joliba TV News off air after it broadcast a politician's critical remarks about a close ally of the military regime, a journalist for the channel said Tuesday
November 26, 2024The United Nations in Chad has launched an internal investigation, following an Associated Press report on allegations of sexual exploitation of Sudanese refugees, including by aid workers
November 26, 2024Authorities in Mali have arrested four senior employees of a Canadian mining company as the military regime in the West African nation continues to detain workers to pressure companies in its crucial mining sector to pay millions in additional taxes
November 27, 2024
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