Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary group said on Sunday, after a four-day assault the government
April 13, 2025
The South African rand firmed on Monday, boosted by a news report that the country's biggest political party may back down on a plan to raise value-added tax (VAT) and dollar
April 14, 2025
Qatar and Egypt agreed to work towards a package of $7.5 billion in direct Qatari investments, according to a joint statement released by the Egyptian president's office on Monday.
April 14, 2025
The commanding win of junta leader Brice Oligui Nguema in Gabon's presidential election over the weekend gives him a seven-year mandate to turn
April 02, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as his special envoy to the United
April 14, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a former deputy finance minister as a special envoy to the United States after the ambassador was expelled last month
April 14, 2025
A court in Mauritius has granted bail to a former finance minister charged with fraud over alleged embezzlement at a state-owned company, his lawyer and the financial crimes
April 14, 2025
France said on Monday that Algeria had threatened to expel 12 of its diplomatic staff and that it would take immediate reprisals should that occur in the latest flare-up between them
April 14, 2025
For South African beverage company owner, Ndumiso Madlala, the impending value-added tax hike could spell trouble for his small-scale
April 14, 2025
The exhibition halls of Sudan's biggest museum were once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations
April 14, 2025
Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels
April 13, 2025
Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast,
April 13, 2025
SpaceX's Starlink satellite system is now available in Somalia, owner Elon Musk wrote on social media platform X on Sunday, while a Somalia government official confirmed the company has
April 13, 2025
Provisional results announced by the country’s interior ministry show that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup that ended a decadeslong political dynasty, has been elected president
April 13, 2025
A devastating assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Zamzam Camp for displaced people near al-Fasher has left hundreds dead or wounded, the foreign ministry and aid groups
April 12, 2025
Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA has been disqualified from elections due later this year, a senior election commission official said on Saturday, days after the
April 12, 2025
Gabon's coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema looked to cement his grip on power as the oil-producing Central African nation held a presidential election
April 11, 2025
A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a two-day offensive by a notorious paramilitary group
April 12, 2025
Most polls have closed in the oil-rich Gabon following a presidential election that the country’s military rulers hoped would legitimize their grip on power
April 12, 2025
Vultures have an image problem and are among the least loved animals in the world
April 12, 2025
Children including toddlers represent more than a third of victims in nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in eastern Congo in the first two
April 11, 2025
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu survived being shot 16 times in 2017 and has been arrested on multiple occasions, but
April 11, 2025
In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at attention in a clearing
April 11, 2025
UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis
April 11, 2025
Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of thousands were deprived of protection
April 11, 2025
A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl
April 11, 2025
Authorities in Nigeria have barred radio stations from playing a song critical of President Bola Tinubu and his administration’s policies
April 11, 2025
Turmoil in the wake of U.S.
April 11, 2025
Over a thousand Sudanese refugees have reached or attempted to reach Europe in early 2025, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Friday, citing growing desperation in part due
April 11, 2025
Nigerian traveler says her thwarted world record attempt shows ‘passport privilege’ is real
April 11, 2025
China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had discussions with his Saudi Arabian and South African counterparts to exchange views on responding to the United States' "reciprocal
April 10, 2025
A senior U.N. official says a nearly two-year-old war has engulfed Sudan in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and led the African country to become the only nation experiencing famine
April 10, 2025
An ex-military officer in Gambia and others have testified this week against a man on trial in the United States accused of conspiring to torture people accused of opposing the West African nation's longtime dictator
April 10, 2025
Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, could take measures to make the product more expensive if tariffs proposed by U.S.
April 10, 2025
Morocco’s social security agency says troves of data were stolen from its systems during a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the Telegram messaging app
April 10, 2025
African nations that were facing some of the steepest reciprocal tariffs from the Trump administration have been given a moment of relief with the pausing of the duties
April 10, 2025
South Africa is considering offering additional incentives to automakers to help cushion the impact of U.S.
April 10, 2025
Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ceasefire and end months of fighting that have raised
April 10, 2025
The U.S.
April 09, 2025
Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo have been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with staging an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African nation’s government
April 09, 2025
Voters in Gabon will go to the polls on Saturday in a presidential election as the country's junta leader seeks democratic legitimacy after taking power in a 2023
April 09, 2025
USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences
April 08, 2025
U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund support for some Central African countries, in an effort to
April 09, 2025
Authorities in Mauritius arrested the former finance minister and central bank governor on Wednesday as part of an investigation into embezzlement at a state company, the Indian
April 09, 2025
Tanzanian police arrested the leader of the country's main opposition party on Wednesday as he finished addressing a public meeting, his party said.
April 09, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians staged two protest rallies on Wednesday against what they say is the authoritarian rule of President Kais Saied and demanded the release of
April 09, 2025
The top opposition candidate in Gabon's presidential election challenged the eligibility of Brice Oligui Nguema in an
April 09, 2025
International debt issued by small emerging economies generally viewed as riskier by investors suffered another sharp drop on
April 09, 2025
Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram has renewed attacks and kidnappings in northeastern Borno state with little push back from security forces,
April 09, 2025
An aid organization says five children are among eight people who have died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are forcing patients to walk for hours to reach the nearest clinics
April 09, 2025
Petra Diamonds, which has the world's third-largest resource of diamonds, said on Wednesday it had delayed the sale of gems from its Cullinan Mine in South Africa until there was greater
April 09, 2025
Peace talks between Congo's government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels planned for Wednesday in Doha have been postponed, sources from both sides told Reuters this week, with
April 09, 2025
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila will return to the central African nation to help find a solution to the crisis in the war-ravaged east, where Rwanda-backed M23
April 09, 2025
In December, Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he
April 09, 2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services
April 08, 2025
Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North
April 08, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently canceled U.S. foreign aid
April 08, 2025
Congo says three Americans convicted of participating in a botched coup attempt last year have been repatriated to the United States
April 08, 2025
Three American citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to U.S. custody on
April 08, 2025
Gabon holds a presidential election on Saturday, the first since a 2023 coup ended the Bongo family's 56-year dynasty and which the country's new military
April 08, 2025
The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table
April 08, 2025
A lawyer for a man accused of torturing people suspected in a planned coup against Gambia’s longtime president says the defendant was a mere private in the West African country’s military who risked torture and death himself if he disobeyed superiors
April 08, 2025
South Sudan to admit man deported by US after blanket visa ban
April 08, 2025
At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one
April 08, 2025
The African National Congress remains committed to South Africa's multiparty government, it said on Tuesday, after its main coalition partner, the Democratic
April 08, 2025
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday appointed Tadesse Worede to lead the interim administration in the northern Tigray region, where divisions in
April 08, 2025
Tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will hurt South African citrus farms and could potentially affect 35,000 jobs, a farmers' association said on Tuesday.
April 08, 2025
The humanitarian situation in Haiti is dramatically worsening, aid group Save the Children said, with underfunded security forces increasingly overwhelmed by powerful gangs and capital
April 07, 2025
A new report by the U.N. political mission in Haiti says more than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in the country's capital
April 07, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S.
April 07, 2025
Aid cuts threaten progress toward ending deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, WHO warns
April 07, 2025
Duke men’s basketball player Khaman Maluach could be impacted by State Department ruling on South Sudan passport holders
April 07, 2025
The morning sun cast long shadows as Abdulilah Mohamed, an elderly resident of Sharg Elnil in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, returned to his family home after fleeing from
April 07, 2025
Arab states formally support the Palestinian cause but security, regional and sectarian tensions have strained their ties with the Palestinians
April 07, 2025
Kenya is among those exporters hoping a smaller Trump tariff blow vis-a-vis competitors might help them emerge as winners in the nascent global trade war, but
April 07, 2025
France and Egypt signed strategic partnership agreements on Monday, in areas covering health, transport and energy, which French President Emmanuel Macron said would help shore up
April 07, 2025
Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives
April 07, 2025
France and Algeria agreed to renew cooperation in all sectors, France's foreign minister said on Sunday after a day of talks aimed at resuming dialogue following months of bickering.
April 06, 2025
France's foreign minister said on Sunday that ties with Algeria were back to normal after he held 2 1/2 hours of talks with Algeria's president following months of
April 06, 2025
The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation
April 06, 2025
Moroccans have protested Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza and U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians and clear the territory for development
April 06, 2025
Nigeria's central bank has sold nearly $200 million to support the naira currency after President Donald Trump's tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets, the bank said on
April 06, 2025
Far from being cowed by US airstrikes, Yemen’s Houthis may be relishing them
April 06, 2025
Libya's central bank announced a 13.3% devaluation of the country's dinar currency on Sunday, setting the exchange rate at 5.5677 to the U.S. dollar effective immediately.
April 06, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African nation’s government of “taking advantage of the United States.”
April 06, 2025
The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan's failure to accept the return of its repatriated
April 05, 2025
Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on
April 05, 2025
Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told
April 05, 2025
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
April 05, 2025
Renowned guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of Mali’s music duo Amadou & Mariam has died
April 05, 2025
Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a mystery king
April 05, 2025
Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds with Western rock and pop influences as one half of the blind duo
April 05, 2025
Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as
April 04, 2025
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable
April 04, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have struck among others the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho, one of the world's poorest nations
April 04, 2025
Russia has committed to helping military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger acquire arms and training for a planned 5,000-strong force to deploy in the central Sahel region
April 04, 2025
Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of
April 04, 2025
South Africa has no immediate plans to retaliate against the United States over tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week and
April 04, 2025
Grand Slam Track league, founded by 4-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson, is set to launch in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 4-6. The new league, which will feature 4 "Slams" in 4 cities, aims to transform how the sport operates by putting athletes and rivalries front and center.
April 03, 2025
Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Donald Trump's formula for calculating those levies has a serious side: it is also
April 03, 2025
A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta can be sued in the East African country over its alleged role in promoting content that led to ethnic violence in
April 04, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have withdrawn from the strategic town of Walikale, describing the move as a goodwill gesture ahead of planned peace talks
April 04, 2025
Tunisians are embracing snails as a protein-packed alternative as the cost of red meat remains high
April 04, 2025
A Trump administration official says the United States is talking with conflict-plagued Congo about developing its mineral resources under a deal that the Congolese president has said could help make his country safer
April 03, 2025
The United States is in talks to invest billions of dollars in mineral-rich Congo and wants to help end a conflict raging in the country's east, President Donald Trump's
April 03, 2025
Imprisoned Egyptian-British activist’s mother marks 100 days of hunger strike, says family
January 07, 2025
Nearly 3,000 people killed after rebels seize key city in DR Congo, UN says
February 06, 2025
The Pentagon's deliberations about restructuring parts of the U.S. military, including potentially giving up the United States' role as the head
April 03, 2025
Greek and Turkish officials have reported the sinking of two boats carrying migrants in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving a total of at least 16 people dead, including three children, one missing and more than 40 survivors
April 03, 2025
Prince Harry said on Thursday he hoped Britain's charity regulator would "unveil the truth" after it opened a compliance case into his charity Sentebale following
April 03, 2025
President Donald Trump has moved to impose sweeping tariffs on most goods imported to the United States, including from African countries
April 03, 2025
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni arrived in neighbouring South Sudan on Thursday, in the highest level mission there since clashes and the detention of the vice president
April 03, 2025
The U.S. government's imposition of steep tariffs on African nations signals the end of the AGOA trade deal, an initiative
April 03, 2025
A 50% reciprocal trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on U.S.
April 03, 2025
Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies
April 03, 2025
A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist enclave,
April 03, 2025
At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece's coastguard said.
April 03, 2025
Senegal's parliament has approved revisions to an amnesty law covering 2021-24 protests, paving the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths of dozens of protesters.
April 03, 2025
Zambia removes US-based players from women’s squad due to ‘additional travel measures’ under Trump administration
April 03, 2025
South Africa's presidency said on Thursday that the new U.S. tariffs underscore the need to negotiate a new bilateral trade deal with Washington to ensure long-term trade
April 03, 2025
Thousands of protesters in Haiti have clashed with police as they denounce a surge in gang violence and demand that the government keep them safe
April 02, 2025
DRC president commutes death sentences for 3 Americans convicted in coup attempt
April 02, 2025
Two of the five members of the Ghana central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted for its prime interest rate to be kept at 27% during the last meeting, at which the bank
April 02, 2025
The team of President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues
April 02, 2025
At least two people were killed and others were injured in renewed attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a camp in North Darfur that is sheltering around 450,000 people displaced by the war in the country
April 02, 2025
African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest
April 02, 2025
The South African rand dropped sharply on Wednesday as a fractious budget vote threw into doubt the solidity of the coalition government.
April 02, 2025
The death sentences of three U.S. citizens convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have been commuted to life imprisonment, the
April 02, 2025
South Africa's parliament passed the budget's fiscal framework on Wednesday after weeks of political wrangling, but the future of the
April 02, 2025
Ghana's annual consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month to 22.4% in March from 23.1% the previous month, as food price pressures eased, the statistics agency said on
April 02, 2025
Guinea’s military junta has set Sept. 21 as the date for a long-promised referendum on the adoption of a new constitution
April 02, 2025
Alain Claude Bilie By Nze enjoyed just seven months as prime minister of Gabon before a 2023 military coup.
April 02, 2025
Guinea's military leader has set September 21, 2025, as the date for a constitutional referendum, according to a decree read out on state television on Tuesday
April 02, 2025
Nigeria's net foreign exchange reserves stood at $23.11 billion at the end of 2024, their highest level in three years, the Central Bank of Nigeria said,
April 02, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
April 01, 2025
The foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will visit Moscow this week as the Sahel nations and Russia seek to strengthen ties, the three African
April 01, 2025
The Congo government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels aim to hold direct talks on April 9, sources from both camps said on Tuesday, a potential boost to Qatar's efforts to end
April 01, 2025
South Africa will seek a meeting with U.S. authorities on auto tariffs, Trade Minister Parks Tau said on Tuesday, noting the levies are a concern as the
April 01, 2025
A South African purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed that conditions in the manufacturing sector remained depressed in March, but there was a slight improvement in
April 01, 2025
Two Kenyan police officers in Haiti have been seriously injured in clashes with gangs over the past week, three officers told Reuters, adding to the mission's
April 01, 2025
Prince Harry on Tuesday hailed the work of his travel initiative that he set up to make tourism more sustainable, as the fallout from a clash with the head of his African charity
March 31, 2025
The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out
March 30, 2025
Police deployed heavily in Zimbabwe's capital and other cities on Monday, largely neutralising a call by veterans for massive protests against plans to extend
March 31, 2025
Oil producer Saudi Aramco keeps its April official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unchanged from March, while Algeria's Sonatrach cut its OSPs by 2-7% due
March 31, 2025
A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern Congo's Ituri province, creating another potential
March 31, 2025
The chair of a charity Prince Harry set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana has accused him of "harassment and bullying at scale" after he quit this
March 29, 2025
Prince Harry accused of ‘harassment and bullying’ by charity chairwoman
March 30, 2025
She was expelled from the United States, but still thought America would help. She was wrong
March 30, 2025
The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Sunday that his war against the army was not over and his forces would return to
March 30, 2025
Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields
March 29, 2025
Qatari mediators hosted a second round of talks on Friday between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and separately met representatives of the Rwandan-backed rebellion waging an
March 28, 2025
The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
March 29, 2025
Guinea's junta leader has pardoned former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara for "health reasons" after a court last year found him guilty of crimes against
March 29, 2025
THE HAGUE -The World Court said on Friday it would hear a case brought by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates and accusing the Gulf state of violating obligations under
March 28, 2025
A groundbreaking initiative could soon be bringing surgeons closer to patients in Africa's remote corners where the doctor-to-patients ratio is among the lowest in the world
March 29, 2025
Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a letter to President Donald Trump seen by Reuters on
March 28, 2025
The Red Sea, renowned for its coral reefs and marine life, is a major hub for Egypt's tourism industry, a pillar of the economy.
March 28, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo doubled salaries for soldiers and police on Friday, the finance ministry said, in an apparent bid to boost morale as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance
March 28, 2025
Rio Tinto has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world's biggest hard rock lithium deposits, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people
March 28, 2025
The U.N.
March 28, 2025
When South Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 to a chorus of worldwide congratulations and celebrations, rebel-leader-turned-president Salva Kiir promised his people freedom
March 28, 2025
The U.N.
March 28, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a peace agreement in South Sudan was in a shambles, telling the country's leaders
March 28, 2025
South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar is under arrest and will be investigated on charges of trying to stir up rebellion, the government said on Friday, the first
March 28, 2025
Residents of Sudan's Tuti island at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile have emerged from paramilitary control to speak of hardships suffered and
March 28, 2025
The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war, and to speak with one voice to support a return to peace
March 28, 2025
Six Russians died on Thursday and 39 foreign tourists were rescued when a viewing submarine sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the
March 27, 2025
Ghana's central bank on Friday raised its main interest rate by 100 basis points to 28%, saying the impact of the rate hike on consumer inflation will be
March 28, 2025
How to see a partial solar eclipse turn the sun into a crescent
March 28, 2025
Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar who serves as a vice president was arrested in the capital
March 28, 2025
The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France’s back-channel talks with the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
March 28, 2025
Britain on Thursday advised its citizens in South Sudan to leave the country following rising tensions that have brought the East African nation to the brink of renewed civil war.
March 27, 2025
An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites is back in the headlines in South Africa
March 27, 2025
Six Russian tourists killed after submarine sinks off Egyptian coast
March 27, 2025
South Sudan’s main opposition party says a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader Riek Machar a day earlier
March 27, 2025
The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks the latest turn in the turbulent relationship with his rival,
March 27, 2025
Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an escalating conflict between the government and Rwandan-backed
March 27, 2025
An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in jail on Thursday for undermining national unity, prompting a call for his freedom from French
March 27, 2025
Egypt, one of the mediators in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, has received positive indications from Israel over a new ceasefire proposal that
March 27, 2025
Prince Harry’s announced his resignation this week from an African charity that he co-founded in memory of his mother Princess Diana
March 27, 2025
A provincial governor in Egypt says that at least six Russian tourists are dead after a recreational submarine on an underwater cruise of coral reefs sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Hurghada
March 27, 2025
The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, residents said, after declaring victory over their Rapid
March 27, 2025
The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday.
March 27, 2025
The Bank of Ghana and the Central Bank of Kenya will pause cutting interest rates at their upcoming meetings and resume in May, a Reuters poll found on
March 27, 2025
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa acted to consolidate his hold on power with Tuesday's dismissal of a senior general, political analysts say, amid growing fears
March 26, 2025
The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere
March 26, 2025
South Africa's United National Transport Union (UNTU) said on Thursday it rejected a final wage offer tabled by state-owned logistics group Transnet, which was signed by a smaller union.
March 27, 2025
The party of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar said on Wednesday it was trying to locate him after the defence minister and chief of national security "forcefully entered" his
March 26, 2025
Kenya has recognised Kosovo as an independent state, the first country to do so after nearly five years of stalled efforts to gain further international recognition.
March 26, 2025
Suspected Islamist fighters launched a coordinated attack on an army base and a military outpost in Nigeria's
March 26, 2025
The Sudanese army drove its rival Rapid Support Forces from most of Khartoum city, residents said on Wednesday, as the army chief toured the presidential palace and airport, marking
March 26, 2025
An officer from the Kenyan multinational security support (MSS) mission was reported missing in Haiti on Tuesday after an incident involving gangs, the MSS said in a
March 26, 2025
Aid groups in Sudan say a military airstrike hit a local market in the country’s western region, igniting a huge fire and killing at least 54 people
March 25, 2025
Kenyan officer killed in Haiti after gang ambush, as Rubio visits Caribbean to discuss Haitian security crisis
March 26, 2025
Sudan’s military says it has recaptured the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a rival paramilitary group
March 26, 2025
Prince Harry has resigned as a patron of an African charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago in memory of his late mother, Princess Diana
March 26, 2025
Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if urgent funding is not found, the U.N.'
March 26, 2025
Mali is forecasting a slight recovery in industrial gold output in 2025 on the assumption that mining giant Barrick Gold will resume operations after a months-long
March 26, 2025
Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war, chanting "Hamas out," social media posts showed, in a
March 26, 2025
Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s constitution
March 26, 2025
Britain's Prince Harry has quit as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, following a dispute between
March 26, 2025
Police raids in six German states have targeted a group alleged to be “part of an international network whose aim is to overthrow the government in Eritrea.”
March 26, 2025
Police in eastern Congo killed two people on Tuesday when they opened fire on mourners at the funeral of a slain singer known for denouncing both his own
March 25, 2025
A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement
March 25, 2025
South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has accused Uganda of violating a United Nations arms embargo by entering the country with armoured and air force units, and
March 25, 2025
Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye said he had seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda has a plan to attack his country, whose forces have battled Rwandan-backed rebels in
March 25, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo battled militiamen allied with the government on Tuesday as regional countries tried to give fresh impetus to
March 25, 2025
South Africa's rand extended its recent rally on Tuesday, as markets continued to look for clarity on U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff plans.
March 25, 2025
The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions and Congo’s proposed minerals deal with the United States in search of peace will not stop the fighting
March 24, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false narrative.”
March 24, 2025
The top U.N. official in South Sudan is warning that the country is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war
March 24, 2025
U.S. jet fuel imports are set to hit a two-year high in March after Nigeria's Dangote refinery pushed barrels to North America, which should lower prices of the
March 24, 2025
Australia's Gold Road Resources said on Monday it had rejected Gold Fields' $2.1 billion buyout bid because it believed the offer materially
March 24, 2025
Egypt made a new proposal last week aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters on Monday.
March 24, 2025
A de facto ceasefire between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed rebels in the eastern Congo town of Walikale appeared to have broken down on Monday, with the rebels going back on a pledge
March 24, 2025
Newly elected International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry has arrived in her home country of Zimbabwe to a hero’s welcome as her victory is celebrated as a national milestone
March 23, 2025
The South African ambassador who was expelled from the United States and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration has been welcomed home at an airport by hundreds of supporters who sang songs praising him
March 23, 2025
Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil war, the German
March 22, 2025
Sudan’s military has consolidated its grip on Khartoum, retaking more key government buildings a day after it gained control of the capital's Republican Palace from a notorious paramilitary group
March 22, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels staging an offensive in east Congo said on Saturday they would withdraw forces from the seized town of Walikale in support of peace efforts, having
March 22, 2025
Gabon's Constitutional Court has approved a list of eight candidates to run in the Central African nation's presidential election next month, including interim President Brice
March 22, 2025
The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in
March 21, 2025
Separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu pleaded not guilty to seven counts of terrorism and treason charges in a new trial in Nigeria on Friday, with a fourth judge now
March 21, 2025
Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying on perilous routes and one in 10 of those killed violently in incidents such as shootings, the U.N.
March 21, 2025
The United Nations children's agency said on Friday it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of
March 21, 2025
Namibia's newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged on Friday to boost investments in the agricultural sector and diversify the resource-focused
March 21, 2025
The International Olympic Committee has elected its first female and its first African President, the former Zimbabwean swimming champion Kirtsy Coventry. CNN Sport's Analyst Christine Brennan joins World Sport's Don Riddell to discuss.
March 20, 2025
Sudan’s military says it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting
March 21, 2025
Two brothers have been arrested and appeared in a Zimbabwe court accused of an armed robbery at the home of new International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry’s parents
March 21, 2025
Sudan, which has been in the grip of a two-year-old war between the army and a paramilitary group, has a history of civil wars, military takeovers and rebellions.
March 21, 2025
Sudan army reclaims presidential palace in major push to take back capital from rebels
March 21, 2025
Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO
March 21, 2025
The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government
March 20, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry on her election as International Olympic Committee president on Thursday, saying her "unique experience" would
March 20, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ceasefire this week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents as the M23 rebel group expands its footprint in the conflict-torn African country
March 20, 2025
The head of world cycling said the Road World Championships would go ahead in Rwanda in September, dismissing criticism from human rights groups who accuse Kigali of
March 20, 2025
Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the
March 20, 2025
The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa’s most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political opposition
March 20, 2025
Former Credit Suisse chief executive Tidjane Thiam has been relieved of his French citizenship, according to the French government gazette, potentially clearing the
March 20, 2025
The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate
March 20, 2025
The leader of a rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that insurgents were not bound by a ceasefire call from Congo and
March 20, 2025
At his bar in Bukavu - a city in eastern Congo overrun by Rwandan-backed rebels last month - Adolphe Amani dipped into his dwindling
March 20, 2025
Below are some quotes from South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago at a news conference to announce the central bank's latest interest rate decision.
March 20, 2025
South Africa's central bank paused its rate-cutting cycle on Thursday as risks stemming from U.S.
March 20, 2025
Sudan's army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, state TV reported on Thursday, in a significant milestone in a two
March 20, 2025
Ex-Formula 1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died
March 20, 2025
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that his government would not seek conflict with longtime foe Eritrea over access to the Red Sea, after regional officials
March 20, 2025
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the governor of northeastern Upper Nile state where clashes have escalated between government troops and an ethnic militia he accuses
March 20, 2025
Eddie Jordan, former F1 team owner who gave Michael Schumacher his debut, dies aged 76
March 20, 2025
Nationalistic behavior can put people, economies and ecosystems, and even peace, at risk. The US, which paused Columbia River talks with Canada, isn’t the only country shifting in this direction.
March 18, 2025
The U.S. hit targets across Yemen in airstrikes overnight, including Saada province, which Yemeni sources say is a long-time hideout for Iran-aligned Houthi
March 18, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels pressed deeper into Congolese territory a day after Congo and Rwanda's presidents called for an immediate ceasefire, entering the outskirts of the town of Walikale
March 19, 2025
In a nutrition ward at a hospital in Sudan's war-stricken capital, gaunt mothers lie next to even thinner toddlers with wide, sunken eyes.
March 19, 2025
Malnutrition is growing in Yemen with needs outpacing current treatment capacity, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, in a statement appealing for greater
March 19, 2025
For years, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo demanded direct negotiations with Congolese authorities.
March 19, 2025
Rwanda's economy grew 8.9% in 2024 compared with 8.2% the previous year, the country's statistics office said on Wednesday, driven by good harvests, and a robust performance in the
March 19, 2025
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
March 19, 2025
A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
March 19, 2025
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif targets LA Olympics in 2028 after brushing off Donald Trump criticism
March 19, 2025
A foreign national was killed and four others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the site of a United Nations headquarters in central Gaza City on Wednesday, Gaza's health
March 19, 2025
South Africa's inflation rate was steady at 3.2% year on year in February,, the statistics agency said on Wednesday, a day before the
March 19, 2025
The presidents of Congo and Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year
March 18, 2025
Last September, torrential rains swept across West and Central Africa, causing devastating floods
March 19, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo on Tuesday during
March 18, 2025
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in oil-producing Rivers State and suspended the state governor, his deputy and all lawmakers.
March 18, 2025
Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they would expand their range of targets in Israel in the next hours and days unless the "aggression" on Gaza stops.
March 18, 2025
Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his motorcade as it was traveling through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the
March 18, 2025
A major party in South Sudan's coalition government said on Tuesday it had suspended its role in a key element of a 2018 peace deal as relations between its leader Riek Machar and
March 18, 2025
Kenya is hosting the Netherlands king and queen for a state visit against the backdrop of allegations of human rights abuses in the East African country
March 18, 2025
Ratings agency Moody's expects South Africa's coalition government to reach a compromise that allows the country's deadlocked budget to pass with its focus on fiscal
March 18, 2025
South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological evaluation after he allegedly assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues
March 18, 2025
The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east say they have withdrawn from planned peace talks with the country’s government in Angola
March 17, 2025
The State Department says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States has until Friday to leave the country
March 17, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said on Monday that they had withdrawn from planned peace talks aimed at resolving a spiralling conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the EU imposed
March 17, 2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the monthly losses of the Suez Canal revenues reached around $800 million due to the regional "situation", as Yemen's
March 17, 2025
Remarks by South Africa's ambassador to the United States about President Donald Trump were "unacceptable," a State Department spokesperson told reporters on
March 17, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Monday pulled out of peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo's government less than 24 hours before the warring parties in eastern Congo's worst
March 17, 2025
Nigeria's annual headline inflation eased to 23.18% in February, the country's statistics agency said on Monday, a month after it rebased its Consumer Price
March 17, 2025
In a part of Sudan recaptured by the army just weeks ago after nearly two years under the control of paramilitary fighters, Red Crescent volunteers in hazmat suits and
March 17, 2025
South Africa's lawmakers will scrutinise the 2025 budget in the coming weeks, with amendments not ruled out as political parties weigh up a contentious plan to
March 17, 2025
Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other's diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their respective roles in the conflict in eastern Democratic
March 17, 2025
The average inflation forecast for 2025 in a closely watched survey commissioned by the central bank fell further in the first quarter of this year, dropping below the level
March 17, 2025
Kenya and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will discuss a new lending programme and abandon the current one, as the country struggles to
March 17, 2025
Some 6.7 million additional
March 14, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has met U.S. lawmaker Ronny Jackson to discuss fighting in the east of the country and opportunities for U.S. investment,
March 17, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo will send a delegation to Angola on Tuesday for talks aiming to resolve a spiralling conflict against Rwandan-backed rebels in the east, the presidency said on
March 16, 2025
The U.S. has is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-
March 14, 2025
Rubio says South African ambassador ‘no longer welcome’ in US
March 14, 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being anti-white and anti-American
March 15, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the United States
March 14, 2025
Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that poisoned a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers downstream
March 15, 2025
Somalia and its breakaway region of Somaliland have not received any proposal from the United States or Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, their foreign ministers said on Friday,
March 14, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels rampaging through eastern
March 14, 2025
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will likely keep interest rates steady at its March 20 meeting as global trade risks and battles over the national budget
March 14, 2025
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
March 14, 2025
The European Union is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two EU diplomats said on Friday.
March 14, 2025
Fitch ratings agency said on Friday that it thought South Africa's government would struggle to stabilise debt as projected in this week's revised budget.
March 14, 2025
Pulling a train by the strength of your teeth is no easy task
March 13, 2025
Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in northern Ethiopia and regional experts have warned.
March 14, 2025
Accounts of child survivors shed light on surge of rape and sexual violence in conflict-torn DRC
March 14, 2025
The world’s greatest places of 2025, according to TIME
March 13, 2025
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March 13, 2025
The conflict in Sudan has created the "largest and the most devastating humanitarian crisis in the world" as the warring parties lay siege to towns and
March 13, 2025
The head of the U.N. children's agency says the war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, with over 30 million people needing aid this year – 16 million of them children
March 13, 2025
Namibia has confirmed the first case of cholera in ten years, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, adding that laboratory confirmation of the
March 13, 2025
Anglo American has begun a consultation process in the United Kingdom and South Africa to cut jobs, amid a broader restructuring aimed at refocusing its operations on copper and iron ore
March 13, 2025
Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran
March 12, 2025
European Union leaders have announced a 4.7 billion euro, or about $5.1 billion, investment package in South Africa to support green energy transition and vaccine production
March 13, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo is considering sending representatives to peace talks with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that Angola plans to host next week, two government
March 13, 2025
Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in a restive Ethiopian region at the centre of the tensions have
March 13, 2025
European Union leaders announced a 4.7 billion euro ($5.10 billion) investment package during a visit to South Africa on Thursday, at a time when both are on
March 13, 2025
Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent's public health agency said ahead of a meeting with regional health ministers to discuss other financing options
March 13, 2025
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in the Democratic
March 13, 2025
Arab foreign ministers said on Wednesday they would continue consultations with U.S.
March 12, 2025
Standard Bank, Africa's biggest lender by assets, on Thursday forecast headline earnings per share (HEPS) growth of 8-12% over the medium term after its
March 13, 2025
South Africa's budget may be tweaked further as more talks between political parties will try to overcome differences over a contentious plan to raise value-added
March 13, 2025
The interim government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has appealed for the Ethiopian federal government to intervene after a faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seized control of two major towns, leaving several people wounded and raising fears of a return to civil war
March 13, 2025
Egypt said on Thursday it appreciated U.S.
March 13, 2025
Lawmakers in South Africa have laid out plans to shore up the budgets for health and defense but also put up value added tax by 0.5%, a move that will raise the cost of living
March 12, 2025
Angola says the government of Congo and the M23 rebel group will participate in peace talks next week
March 12, 2025
A routine night shift ended in tragedy for Alseny Camara.
March 12, 2025
Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, Angola's presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025
A bloc of East African nations on Wednesday called for South Sudan's government to release detained officials and lift security restrictions as part of efforts to prevent recent
March 12, 2025
Officials administering Ethiopia's Tigray region asked for federal help on Wednesday as a faction of the main regional party seized control of a town, stoking fears of a return
March 12, 2025
A revised budget presented on Wednesday by South Africa's finance minister was immediately rejected by major political parties,
March 12, 2025
A pan-African payments infrastructure provider designed to facilitate trade on the continent is piloting an African currency market platform
March 12, 2025
Technology workers in Kenya have held a vigil for a colleague who died in unclear circumstances after she was unable to travel to her home in Nigeria for two years
March 11, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target as Israel continues to block aid to the Gaza Strip
March 12, 2025
A federal judge on Tuesday found that removing most grants and most staff from a U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses would be legal
March 11, 2025
The International Monetary Fund approved the disbursement of $1.2 billion to Egypt following completion of the fourth review of the country's $8 billion economic reform programme,
March 11, 2025
Only seven countries met World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed on Tuesday, as researchers warned that the war on smog would
March 11, 2025
Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days.
March 11, 2025
Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but South Sudan's information minister denied the presence
March 11, 2025
Governments and global health groups are working to try to fill the most urgent gaps in the fight against diseases such as malaria and HIV,
March 11, 2025
A bus lost control and flipped on a highway early Tuesday near Johannesburg’s international airport, killing 16 as some were thrown from the vehicle
March 11, 2025
The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of
March 11, 2025
South African lender Absa forecast mid-single digit revenue growth for 2025 and fewer bad loans following a 10% jump in its annual profit, driven by improved
March 11, 2025
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it has received termination notices from the U.S. government for five of its projects, forcing it to shut some programmes
March 11, 2025
Nigeria's government has started vetting potential candidates to lead its more than 100 diplomatic missions, with appointments expected "very soon", 18 months after
March 11, 2025
Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return to civil war in the east African nation
March 11, 2025
J.P.Morgan on Tuesday downgraded South African equities to "neutral" from "overweight," citing concerns over an economic slowdown and the effectiveness of the country's policy reforms.
March 11, 2025
Cuts to US foreign aid are hurting efforts to tackle human trafficking at scam compounds. Americans may pay the price
March 11, 2025
Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila appeared before a military prosecutor on Monday in a sign of political tensions over advances by
March 10, 2025
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Mauritius on Tuesday for talks on upgrading strategic ties, days after U.S.
March 10, 2025
Nigeria's economic crimes commission said it recovered nearly $500 million in proceeds of crime last year and secured more than 4,000 criminal convictions, its highest since the
March 10, 2025
Ambitions by the BRICS group to take on a greater climate leadership role, building on success last month at United Nations nature talks, depend on the countries
March 10, 2025
The United States is open to exploring critical minerals partnerships with Congo, the State Department said in a statement to Reuters on Sunday, after a Congolese senator contacted U.S.
March 09, 2025
Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least nine villagers in an attack in Congo’s conflict-battered east
March 09, 2025
The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north
March 09, 2025
Israel and Hamas signaled on Saturday they were preparing for the next phase of ceasefire negotiations, as mediators pushed ahead with talks to extend
March 08, 2025
Women have taken to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence
March 08, 2025
Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threaten its fragile peace process, a United Nations rights body said on Saturday, days after the arrests of several
March 08, 2025
South Africa on Friday rejected a claim by multibillionaire Elon Musk that his Starlink satellite company could not operate in the
March 07, 2025
Guinea-Bissau on Friday set November 23 for its presidential and legislative elections, according to a presidential decree.
March 07, 2025
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March 07, 2025
Soldier returns from deployment and surprises children at school
March 07, 2025
Nearly 100 people have died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State
March 07, 2025
South Africa's defence minister said there was a need to "relook at" a Southern African mission in Democratic Republic of Congo, where troops from several countries including
March 07, 2025
A South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed on Friday when a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern town of Nasir came under attack, the
March 07, 2025
At least 11 people were killed in attacks over the past day in the rebel-held Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu as vigilante violence rises following the army's withdrawal,
March 07, 2025
An Eritrean who was among a group of sea migrants held on an Italian coast guard vessel for 10 days in 2018 is entitled to compensation, Italy's top appeals court
March 07, 2025
The World Health Organization says it will send leprosy drugs to Nigeria this weekend after resolving testing hold-ups that led to a year
March 07, 2025
By Mohamed Ezz FAYOUM, Egypt - Nine Egyptians freed after being held for 19 months by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces arrived in Egypt to celebrations on Thursday morning as the Sudanese
March 07, 2025
The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing
March 07, 2025
Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp
March 07, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold talks in South Africa with President Cyril Ramaphosa on April 10, Ramaphosa's spokesman said on Friday, as the Ukrainian
March 07, 2025
South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice President Riek Machar, Machar's spokesperson said on
March 05, 2025
South Africa's net foreign reserves rose to $61.733 billion at the end of February from $61.328 billion in January, central bank data showed on Friday.
March 07, 2025
Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease
March 06, 2025
A judge has barred the Trump administration from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports investment in African countries
March 06, 2025
Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said on Thursday that he spoke over the phone with his Sierra Leone counterpart Alpha Sesay about the Dutch extradition request for European
March 06, 2025
Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future as Rwanda-backed rebels seize
March 06, 2025
Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its
March 06, 2025
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