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
The board of the U.S.
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
Microsoft will invest an additional 5.4 billion rand ($296.81 million) by the end of 2027 to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in
March 06, 2025
A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago
March 05, 2025
Egypt and the European Commission have signed a 90 million euro ($93.9 million) soft funding agreement to enhance food security, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation said on
March 03, 2025
The world must carry on pursuing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions outlined in the Paris Agreement, despite the United States' withdrawal, Britain's climate
March 06, 2025
The United Nations has released $110 million from an emergency fund to help neglected crises around the world, including Sudan, after donors like the United States ordered major
March 06, 2025
South Africa's FirstRand Ltd on Thursday forecast marginally higher second-half earnings than the 10% growth it reported in the first half, but net interest
March 06, 2025
Lesotho's foreign minister said on Wednesday he was shocked and insulted by U.S.
March 05, 2025
Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
March 05, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says no one has ever heard of Lesotho
March 05, 2025
Mozambican police fired on supporters of opposition leader Venancio Mondlane marching in the capital Maputo on Wednesday, injuring at least 10
March 05, 2025
Ghana's consumer inflation rate slowed for the second month in a row in February, to an annual 23.1% from 23.5% in January,
March 05, 2025
South Sudanese soldiers have surrounded Vice President Riek Machar’s home in the capital and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base
March 05, 2025
Kenya's private sector held steady in February, expanding at a similar pace to the previous month, a survey showed on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025
Business activity in South Africa continued to weaken in February, but the pace of contraction slowed compared with the start of the year, a survey showed on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025
Germany said on Tuesday it had halted new development aid to Rwanda and was reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in
March 04, 2025
A summit of Arab leaders in Cairo have approved Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza without expelling the Palestinians
March 04, 2025
Arab leaders adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday that would cost $53 billion and avoid
March 04, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Syria's new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, for the first time on the sidelines of the summit held to discuss Gaza's reconstruction in Cairo on
March 04, 2025
Israel criticized a plan put forward by Arab states for Gaza's reconstruction on Tuesday, while Palestinian militant group Hamas welcomed it.
March 04, 2025
The trial of prominent opposition figures in Tunisia who have been accused of conspiring against the state was postponed on Tuesday until April 11 by the judge, who
March 04, 2025
An Arab summit convened in Cairo on Tuesday adopted an Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said during a closing statement.
March 04, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied groups signed a transitional constitution on Tuesday that takes them a step closer to setting up a parallel government during a two-year
March 04, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he welcomed an Egyptian plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and urged U.S.
March 04, 2025
Twelve victims of a deadly blast at a rally last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were laid to rest on Tuesday in a ceremony organized by newly appointed rebel
March 04, 2025
A Moroccan appeals court on Tuesday increased a jail sentence to one year against Moroccan activist Said Ait Mehdi, who led protests criticizing the government
March 04, 2025
A charity vessel has rescued more than 30 migrants including two children who had been stranded for four days on a gas platform in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the Sea-
March 03, 2025
Norway will extradite a man to Rwanda on the East African country's request, to stand trial on charges of committing murder during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Norwegian police
March 04, 2025
One million more people in Somalia could face crisis levels of hunger in coming months due to a forecast drought during the next crop cycle, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday
March 04, 2025
Egypt’s Gaza plan excludes Hamas from future governance
March 04, 2025
An Arab summit draft communique on Tuesday adopted an Egyptian plan for Gaza's future and called on the international community and financial institutions to provide support for the
March 04, 2025
Rwanda is asking Britain for a 50 million-pound ($63.62 million) payment over a cancelled asylum deal, a source close to the government in Kigali said on Tuesday, after London
March 04, 2025
Shoprite Holdings will expand its on-demand grocery delivery service to its namesake discount stores, stepping up a turf war for South Africa's low-income
March 04, 2025
Children under five, including babies, are among victims of sexual violence in the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support
March 04, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Monday he would run for a second term in November, backtracking on earlier vows to step down and potentially stoking tensions
March 04, 2025
South Africa's economy returned to modest growth in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by a recovery in agricultural output after the sector triggered a
March 04, 2025
The U.N. children’s agency says children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped since the beginning of 2024 and that sexual violence is being used as a tactic of war
March 04, 2025
Rwanda said on Tuesday that Canada's position on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was "shameful", adding that measures announced by Ottawa against Kigali would not
March 04, 2025
Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of
March 04, 2025
Infants and young children are being raped as a weapon of war in Sudan, UNICEF says
March 04, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launching an offensive in east Congo abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in the city of Goma last week, the United Nations said on
March 03, 2025
Israeli fire killed at least two people in Rafah and wounded three others in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, raising fears among Palestinians that the ceasefire
March 03, 2025
The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts
March 03, 2025
Gabon’s military leader has announced that he will run as a candidate in the oil-rich central African nation’s presidential election set for April 12
March 03, 2025
Gabon's interim President Brice Oligui Nguema, who turned 50 on Monday, announced his decision to run as a candidate in the Central African nation's presidential election set for
March 03, 2025
Earth's warming climate is causing problems for big coffee producers everywhere and some are looking to a rarely cultivated species that may stand up better to drought and heat
February 28, 2025
With Gaza tensions high, Egyptians and Israelis warn of a new war
March 03, 2025
The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to funding constraints
March 03, 2025
Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach have cut March's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 0.9-3.2% from the previous month because of lower oil prices and
March 03, 2025
Ghanaian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would become one of Africa's most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation, three sponsors told
March 03, 2025
Congolese soldiers in a mix of fatigues and street clothes crowded into a chapel last week to stand trial for crimes including rape and
March 03, 2025
South African food producer RCL Foods reported a 38.8% rise in half-year earnings on Monday and declared its first interim dividend in two years, sending its
March 03, 2025
South African manufacturers reported a continued deterioration in business conditions in February, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on Monday.
March 03, 2025
As nations mark World Wildlife Day, conservationists in Kenya are warning of shrinking wildlife spaces in a country that generates substantial revenue from wildlife tourism
March 03, 2025
Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the
March 01, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo threatened to expel a political mission sent to his country by the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), the political and
March 02, 2025
Trump wants to protect South Africa’s White farmers. But potential changes to trade privileges would hurt them
March 02, 2025
Saudi Arabia's stock market ended lower on Sunday, extending losses for a fourth session, amid disappointing corporate earnings, while Egypt's stock index was buoyed by
March 02, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Sunday that Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan, which ensures Palestinians remain in their land,
March 02, 2025
Mauritius' Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has described as "positive" U.S.
March 02, 2025
The World Health Organization says a 4-year-old child has become the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda
March 01, 2025
Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries
March 01, 2025
Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel's "formulation" of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire.
March 01, 2025
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding
March 01, 2025
At least four people died after cyclone Garance struck the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday, bringing wind speeds of up to 155 kph (96 mph), local authorities said
March 01, 2025
African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged
March 01, 2025
Many Jamaicans want their country to ditch King Charles as head of state but a bill presented by the government to do just that has
March 01, 2025
The World Health Organization says that authorities investigating the deaths of at least 60 people in northwestern Congo suspect the water source in one of the areas may have been contaminated
February 28, 2025
Officials say the bodies of 12 out of at least 16 Pakistanis who died this month when a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off Libya’s coast have been repatriated to Pakistan
February 28, 2025
At least three people died when cyclone Garance slammed into the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday with wind speeds of up
February 28, 2025
Dale Whitnell has made two holes-in-one in a round that started with him worrying about just making the cut at the South African Open
February 28, 2025
Malawi's government trimmed its economic growth forecast for this year in its annual budget on Friday as disgruntled citizens protested in major cities over rising
February 28, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was concerned about the detention and the health of Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria, and added that it was time to
February 28, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo's government and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels traded blame on Friday for explosions at a rally in the rebel-held eastern city of Bukavu that killed 13 people and
February 28, 2025
Forces fighting alongside Sudan's army said on Friday they had intercepted a substantial quantity of military supplies from a convoy destined for the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
February 28, 2025
British international development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in a surprise move triggered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's
February 28, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday
February 28, 2025
A parallel government being set up by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) aims to grab diplomatic legitimacy from its army-led rival and ease access to advanced weaponry
February 28, 2025
Tropical cyclone smashes into French Indian Ocean island, bringing 100-mile-an-hour winds
February 28, 2025
An Israeli delegation in Cairo aims to negotiate to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal by an additional 42 days, two Egyptian security sources said on Friday.
February 28, 2025
Namibia's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge against last year's presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling
February 28, 2025
ArcelorMittal South Africa will cease long steel production by April this year after discussions with the government failed to avert the plant's closure, the company said on Friday.
February 28, 2025
With Morocco’s sheep herds dwindling at an alarming rate, King Mohammed VI made a rare break with tradition by urging families to forgo buying sheep to sacrifice during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha
February 27, 2025
Senegal’s government has signed an agreement with separatist rebels to bring peace in its southern region, where an armed rebellion has been raging for over 40 years over calls for independence
February 27, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron urged residents on the French overseas territory of Reunion to hunker down on Thursday as a cyclone barrelled toward the Indian Ocean island.
February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-UK military base in the Chagos
February 27, 2025
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Thursday warned of "very strong" uncertainty on the global economic outlook that required vigilance in setting monetary policy
February 27, 2025
U.S.-funded projects worldwide, including those providing lifesaving care for millions of people in countries such
February 27, 2025
Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what is behind illnesses that have surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people
February 27, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has slammed a visit by a lobby group for the country’s white minority Afrikaner community to the White House this week
February 27, 2025
Explosions killed 11 people and wounded 65 at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Thursday, the leader of the rebel alliance said, blaming President Felix
February 27, 2025
At least 11 people have been killed and scores injured in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu where explosions struck a rally held by leaders of the M23 rebel group that took control of the city earlier this month
February 27, 2025
South Africa voiced dismay on Thursday that Group of 20 talks it hosted on global economic issues ended without consensus, after
February 27, 2025
Explosions at a rally held by M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu killed 11 people and wounded 65 others, Corneille Nangaa, head of the rebel alliance
February 27, 2025
Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage and say many humanitarian programs will collapse after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts
February 27, 2025
Growing external debt burdens are crippling the world's poorest countries, a group of former African leaders warned on Thursday as they pushed for a new
February 27, 2025
The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide
February 27, 2025
Cleopatra’s birthplace sees ‘dramatic surge’ in building collapses as sea level rises, study shows
February 27, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he wanted to "do a deal" with U.S.
February 27, 2025
Weak external demand and the impact of conflicts slowed economic growth again in countries covered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
February 27, 2025
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday to hold discussions with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia's presidency said,
February 27, 2025
Nigeria's national museum
February 26, 2025
Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, in an overnight
February 26, 2025
King Mohammed VI of Morocco asked Moroccans on Wednesday to abstain from performing the rite of slaughtering sheep on Eid al-Adha this year due to a drop in the
February 26, 2025
Japan's top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, said on Wednesday he did not see any disparity between recent rises in the yen and a slew of positive economic data
February 26, 2025
Unidentified illnesses in northwestern Congo have killed more than 50 people over the past five weeks, nearly half of them within hours after they felt sick
February 26, 2025
France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are
February 26, 2025
Satellite images show at least three drones and the construction of hangars at an airport in South Darfur held by Sudan's Rapid
February 26, 2025
More than 100 firefighters are battling two blazes on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain
February 26, 2025
British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday she was confident that U.S.-UK trade and investment would not be derailed as President Donald Trump
February 26, 2025
The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides
February 26, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's opposition has vowed to bring the West African country to a standstill on Thursday in a dispute over when the five-year mandate of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo
February 26, 2025
President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the latest sign of a drive by Moscow to build up economic and
February 26, 2025
South Africa's G20 presidency this year will prioritise efforts to help developing countries finance their shift to a low-carbon economy, President Cyril
February 26, 2025
South Africa sought to salvage international talks on tackling global poverty on Wednesday as finance chiefs from several leading economies skipped
February 26, 2025
Sudanese officials say the death toll from a military plane crash in the city of Omdurman has increased to at least 46 people, including women and children
February 26, 2025
Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the bodies of Israeli hostages would take place through "a new mechanism" that guaranteed Israel's
February 26, 2025
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting
February 26, 2025
Nigeria is automating its electronic visa approval and issuance process in an effort to boost travel and business, the interior minister said.
February 26, 2025
International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who have made lightning advances in eastern Congo this year,
February 26, 2025
An initiative by the United States to increase electricity supply in Africa has been dismantled by U.S.
February 26, 2025
South African inflation edged up in January in the first release since the statistics agency updated its consumer price basket, but the headline rate
February 26, 2025
Armed gangs launched a fresh attack on Haiti's capital before dawn on Tuesday, killing residents in the Delmas 30 neighborhood and
February 26, 2025
The Botswana government has signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company after seven years of negotiations
February 25, 2025
The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering introducing cobalt export quotas as the world's biggest supplier of the battery metal seeks to
February 25, 2025
U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo
February 25, 2025
Eastern and Southern African countries are looking into the possibility of deploying troops to secure areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo now under M23 rebel control, according
February 25, 2025
Health experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks
February 24, 2025
An international aid worker says all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation there has become “unbearable.”
February 25, 2025
Egypt rejects proposals to displace the Palestinian people in order to not "liquidate" the Palestinian cause and to avoid threatening the national security of countries in the region
February 25, 2025
The debt crisis facing the world's poorest economies is reaching new highs and debt servicing is eating up a growing share of revenues at
February 25, 2025
Botswana's government on Tuesday signed a long-delayed 10-year diamonds sales agreement with Anglo American unit De Beers adding a possible extension period of five
February 25, 2025
Global trade tensions and a potential value-added tax hike in South Africa could derail two years of slowing inflation, the country's central bank governor said
February 25, 2025
Britain on Tuesday said it would pause some bilateral aid to Rwanda and impose other diplomatic sanctions on Kigali over its role in the conflict in neighbouring
February 25, 2025
Women sew feminine care products for girls around the world
February 25, 2025
A new report released by an anti-transnational crime group has identified the core chemical components of kush, a synthetic drug that has swept through Sierra Leone and the region in the past few years
February 25, 2025
Haitian police officers are demanding better protection and treatment a day after gunmen killed a Kenyan police officer who was part of a U.N.-backed mission tasked with fighting gangs in the troubled Caribbean country
February 24, 2025
Britain will introduce sanctions soon against Rwanda over fighting in neighbouring Congo, a minister in the UK Foreign Office told Reuters on Monday.
February 24, 2025
Morocco's counterterrorism agency said on Monday it had foiled attacks against national and international targets in the country by a 12-member cell loyal to
February 24, 2025
Congo says over 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in its mineral-rich eastern region
February 24, 2025
When Rwanda's ex-spy chief Patrick Karegeya was murdered in South Africa in 2014, his former brother-in-arms James Kabarebe was blunt: "When you choose to
February 24, 2025
Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country’s president
February 24, 2025
Dutch technology investor Prosus has agreed to buy Just Eat Takewaway.com for 4.1 billion euros ($4.3 billion) to create a "European tech
February 24, 2025
As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja's home near the airport to loot, firing indiscriminately and
February 24, 2025
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of
February 24, 2025
Somali pirates have used the Red Sea Crisis and war in Gaza to stage a return
February 22, 2025
Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday.
February 24, 2025
Kenyan authorities say one of their officers sent to Haiti to help rein in violent gangs was killed in an operation in the countryside
February 24, 2025
Sudan's miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group's yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in their nearly two years of war
February 23, 2025
Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis
February 23, 2025
Sudan's army said on Sunday it had seized back control of the town of el-Gitaina, just south of the capital, from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and broken the paramilitary group's
February 23, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces signed a charter with allied political and armed groups late on Saturday to establish a "government of peace and unity", signatories al-
February 22, 2025
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi will launch a unity government, his spokesperson said on Saturday, as he faces domestic pressure over his handling of an offensive by Rwanda-backed M23
February 22, 2025
Crowds of Congolese police officers who switched to the M23 rebel group sang and clapped in occupied Bukavu city on Saturday, preparing for retraining under the authority of the Rwandan-
February 22, 2025
Health officials in Sudan say a cholera outbreak in a southern city has killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days
February 22, 2025
Rwanda's government has asserted solidarity with a top official sanctioned by the U.S. over violence in eastern Congo
February 20, 2025
U.S.
February 22, 2025
Arab leaders discussed on Friday the joint efforts supporting "the Palestinian cause" and Gaza developments, during an informal meeting in Riyadh attended by Gulf states, Egypt and
February 21, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo has freed an opposition leader and the president's former right-hand man, Jean-Marc Kabund, his lawyer said on Friday, ending his imprisonment on
February 21, 2025
The United Nations Security Council on Friday called on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
February 21, 2025
An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be covered by the Sahara Desert
February 20, 2025
Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to escape fighting in eastern Democratic
February 21, 2025
China North Industries Corp, known as Norinco, has offered to adjust its offer to buy copper and cobalt assets owned by Chemaf SA by raising the Congo
February 21, 2025
The U.S. government's foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and
February 21, 2025
A Ugandan magistrates' court charged detained opposition politician Kizza Besigye with treason on Friday, rejecting his lawyer's pleas that he be transferred to hospital to help
February 21, 2025
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy says he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa
February 20, 2025
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason, in an escalation of legal troubles stemming from allegations he plotted to remove the country’s long-time leader by force
February 21, 2025
A U.S. aid freeze is threatening the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi
February 21, 2025
China came out in support of U.S.
February 20, 2025
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world's largest fund helping developing countries deal with the impacts of climate change, said on Friday it had approved $686.8
February 21, 2025
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that interactions between the United States and Russia showed Moscow had
February 20, 2025
A Tunisian judge on Thursday released prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, a critic of President Kais Saied, his lawyer told Reuters, a move the opposition hopes will lead to the
February 20, 2025
The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of the eastern town of Lubero after fleeing nearby clashes with
February 20, 2025
British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Thursday he saw no appetite from Russia for peace with Ukraine after listening to his Russian counterpart Sergei
February 20, 2025
Rwanda on Thursday described recent criticism of its Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris St Germain sponsorship deals by the Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign
February 20, 2025
Nigeria's central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Thursday after six hikes last year, saying that it was reassured by
February 20, 2025
Foreign ministers from the G20 top economies met in South Africa on Thursday, amid tensions between members over the Ukraine war,
February 20, 2025
A commission in military junta-led Niger has recommended a minimum five-year transition to democratic rule following national discussions, officials said.
February 20, 2025
Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European
February 20, 2025
U.S.
February 19, 2025
The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful responses to a disease
February 19, 2025
Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo is threatening peace in the wider region
February 19, 2025
U.S.
February 19, 2025
Tomb of ancient Egyptian king unearthed in ‘remarkable’ discovery
February 19, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo has asked Chad for military support to help fight a spiralling insurgency by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in its eastern provinces, a Chadian
February 19, 2025
Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over its
February 19, 2025
Volleys of gunfire rang out in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border town of Uvira on Wednesday, local sources said, as clashes broke out among allied forces amid the advance of
February 19, 2025
Aid groups across the world have closed operations, laid off staff and halted life-saving work, including with
February 19, 2025
As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President Felix Tshisekedi's
February 19, 2025
Inside a Thai military camp, four Ethiopian men on Wednesday showed the bruises and scars on their bodies they said were sustained during their time in one of
February 19, 2025
Congolese religious leaders are aiming to organise peace talks that would bring President Felix Tshisekedi's government, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and exiled
February 19, 2025Donald Trump's axing of aid to South Africa, in response to land reform policies he says will harm its white minority, has raised fears a trade deal may be next,
February 19, 2025
Twenty-seven people have been arrested in a pan-European raid against two drug trafficking groups, one of which used migrants as couriers, Italy's Carabinieri police said on Wednesday
February 19, 2025Egypt's president called on the international community on Wednesday to adopt a plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza without displacing Palestinians, after a proposal by U.S.
February 19, 2025
Suspected Somali pirates have seized another Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa
February 19, 2025The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in
February 19, 2025Spanish police have arrested seven crew members of a crammed migrant boat that arrived in the Canary Islands in December from Senegal over the alleged killing of eight passengers,
February 19, 2025African leaders have approved the establishment of a continental financial stability fund, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, a move
February 18, 2025
Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.
February 19, 2025
The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa
February 18, 2025
Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, four sources said on Tuesday, in a further blow to Congo's army
February 18, 2025
Residents say Rwanda-backed rebels appear to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo
February 18, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance in eastern Congo, the U.N. said
February 18, 2025
A former senator is among suspects facing arrest in Haiti in connection with deadly gang attacks on a community near the capital for the past three weeks
February 18, 2025Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to travel to Riyadh on Thursday, two Egyptian security sources said, where he is due to
February 18, 2025
Sudanese officials and rights groups say attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state
February 18, 2025
Britain said on Tuesday it had summoned the Rwandan High Commissioner following advances by the Rwandan Defence Force and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic
February 18, 2025UN human rights chief accuses Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern DR Congo of killing and recruiting children
February 18, 2025Burundian soldiers, who have been fighting Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were pulling out following the fall of the city of Bukavu, four sources,
February 18, 2025A Tuareg-dominated rebel alliance in northern Mali accused Malian soldiers, accompanied by Russian Wagner mercenaries, of killing 24 civilians travelling north to Algeria from the city of
February 18, 2025Egypt has postponed an emergency Arab summit to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to remove the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip and take over the territory
February 18, 2025
The Commonwealth called on Tuesday for Uganda, a member of the 56-nation group, to release opposition politician Kizza Besigye, saying his detention undermined
February 18, 2025
Attacks by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have killed more than 200 people over the past three days, activists said on Tuesday, as the paramilitary group delayed signing a political charter
February 18, 2025
Nigeria's annual inflation rate stood at 24.48% in January, the statistics agency said on Tuesday, well down from the previous month's
February 18, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against Congolese forces
February 18, 2025
Three children were executed by the Rwanda-backed M23 after they donned weapons and uniforms abandoned by the Congolese army in the eastern city of Bukavu, the U.N. human rights
February 18, 2025South Africa's official unemployment rate fell slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by job gains in the finance and
February 18, 2025
South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the
February 18, 2025
Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over
February 17, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels have tightened their grip on Bukavu a day after seizing the second major city in eastern Congo
February 17, 2025
Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the arrival of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who have pledged to
February 17, 2025
China is reaping the rewards of its massive mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of surging imports of physical copper.
February 17, 2025
French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she will meet officials and open a French cultural center in a show
February 17, 2025
U.N. officials on Monday asked for $6 billion for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world's worst ever hunger catastrophe and the mass
February 17, 2025
South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamola said on Monday that the United States had not responded to attempts to discuss President Donald
February 17, 2025
Sudan's government said on Monday it would allow aid agencies to use the Adre border crossing for a further three months as of February 16.
February 17, 2025A Ugandan official says a prominent opposition figure facing military trial will be charged before a civilian court instead
February 17, 2025Soccer star Nabil Bentaleb scores in first game since suffering cardiac arrest last year
February 17, 2025
A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many are calling an assassination because of his teachings
February 17, 2025South Africa could turn to Russia or Iran to expand its civilian nuclear power capacity, a senior government minister said, a stance analysts say could deepen a
February 17, 2025
An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went extinct. A fossil could offer clues
February 17, 2025
Man hailed as world’s first imam to say he was gay is shot dead in South Africa
February 17, 2025
Detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye, who went on a hunger strike last week, has been rushed to hospital after his health deteriorated, an
February 17, 2025
Congo’s government says Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo
February 16, 2025
In the rural villages of South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden freeze on foreign aid impacts hundreds of thousands of HIV patients
February 16, 2025
A militant attack on an army position has killed six soldiers in northern Benin, where government troops are trying to curb cross-border assaults by armed Islamist groups, an army
February 17, 2025A court in Mauritius has released former Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on bail following his arrest on charges of money laundering, a magistrate at the court said.
February 17, 2025
Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon, smashing world record
February 16, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the centre of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, meeting little resistance from government troops, witnesses and the armed
February 16, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian police officers east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said, calling it
February 16, 2025
Rebels seen in center of key DR Congo city after claiming takeover
February 15, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told a mother who has been on hunger strike for 140 days that he will press the Egyptian government to release her son
February 16, 2025
A gold mine has collapsed in the east of Mali, leaving a preliminary death toll of 42 and many injured, according to Malian national television and local authorities
February 16, 2025Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said.
February 16, 2025Some white South Africans have showed support for President Donald Trump and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government
February 15, 2025
Former Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has been arrested and is facing money laundering charges, the state-run Financial Crimes Commission said early on Sunday.
February 16, 2025
Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo’s second largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels
February 15, 2025
Chaotic scenes unfolded in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu on Saturday after M23 rebels reached its outskirts, while Congo's prime minister declined to comment on a threat by Uganda's army
February 15, 2025
Human rights advocates and politicians from the region say Russian mercenaries are believed to be behind the disappearance of two soldiers in Central African Republic
February 15, 2025African leaders chose Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to chair the African Union commission on Saturday at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war
February 15, 2025
Uganda will attack the town of Bunia in neighbouring eastern Congo unless "all forces" there surrender their arms within 24 hours, the chief of Ugandan defence forces, General
February 15, 2025
African leaders elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union
February 15, 2025Sudan's Rapid Support
February 14, 2025
Congo's war tops the agenda at this weekend's African Union summit but chances of diplomatic progress are slim as rebels advance and Rwanda's leader
February 14, 2025
Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by
February 14, 2025
A world-renowned U.S. program for international disaster and crisis assistance can no longer deploy in the event of a major emergency due to the Trump administration's
February 14, 2025
The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left
February 14, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city Bukavu on Friday, a rebel leader told Reuters, as residents reported seeing the militants in the
February 14, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have reached the strategic Kavumu airport that services Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, three sources told
February 14, 2025Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-
January 26, 2025
Residents and community leaders say that Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo have entered the region’s second-largest city of Bukavu, the latest ground gained since a major escalation of their yearslong fighting with government forces
February 14, 2025
More than 80 civilians were killed in a late night attack by the armed group CODECO on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week, UN peacekeeping
February 14, 2025The European Parliament
February 13, 2025
Paramilitary forces raid Sudan’s largest refugee camp
February 14, 2025War-torn countries, those with high levels of debt and U.S. allies such as Jordan have the most to lose if the United States Agency for
February 14, 2025
Kenya expects to have a slightly narrower budget deficit and a modest increase in overall spending in its 2025/26 (July-June) fiscal year compared with the year that ends in June,
February 14, 2025
The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push government forces out
February 13, 2025
Thandiwe Mhlambi talks to Christiane Amanpour about how USAID has bettered her life, and what life may be like without it.
February 14, 2025
Nigerian lawmakers have approved an additional $200 million for the health sector as part of its 2025 spending plan to offset the shortfall from U.S. aid cuts
February 14, 2025This Valentine's Day Kenya's flower industry is being ravaged by pests, leading some flower farmers to rely more heavily on toxic pesticides
February 14, 2025
Thailand receives 260 victims of human trafficking from Myanmar, mostly Ethiopians, army says
February 14, 2025A European naval force in the Mideast helped free a Yemeni fishing boat seized by suspected Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa
February 14, 2025Libyan security authorities have recovered at least 11 more bodies of migrants a mass grave in the southeast of the country, a security official told Reuters on Thursday.
February 13, 2025
A New Jersey man whose wife was killed in a hippopotamus attack last year during a safari in Africa is suing the U.S. company that arranged the trip
February 13, 2025
African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial
February 13, 2025
Rwanda's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 6.5% for the second monetary policy meeting in a row, saying that despite a recent pickup in
February 13, 2025
Nigerian lawmakers approved a budget of 54.99 trillion naira ($36.6 billion) for 2025, exceeding the proposal submitted by President Bola Tinubu, the parliamentary
February 13, 2025
Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday, in a massive repatriation that comes amid a
February 13, 2025
The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of
February 13, 2025
Imane Khelif says she will ‘stand firm’ following legal action after winning Olympic gold
February 13, 2025
Police say 24 people have died in a collision between a bus and a truck in Zimbabwe
February 13, 2025Video shows gunfire and clashes in Goma, a key location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a rebel group claimed to have captured the area. Goma is in a conflict-battered province of the DRC and this, CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz explains, may be linked to consumers’ ravaging demand for smartphones.
February 12, 2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not travel to
February 12, 2025
Countries outside of Africa are still reporting cases of the clade Ib form of the mpox virus that prompted the World Health Organization to declare the virus a global public health
August 16, 2024Ethiopia's national elections body on Thursday imposed a three-month suspension on a party that administers the war-scarred Tigray region, saying it had breached laws governing
February 13, 2025Liberia’s president has suspended over 450 government officials who failed to declare their assets to the anti-corruption agency on time
February 13, 2025A prominent opposition figure jailed in Uganda for allegedly threatening state security is unwell and in need of urgent medical care
February 13, 2025USAID employees detail harrowing exits from DR Congo amid violence as Trump administration dismantles agency
February 13, 2025
Congo’s largest church organizations have met with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east to advocate for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting
February 12, 2025
An agreement signed years ago for the creation of a Russian naval base in Sudan remains on the table following talks in Moscow, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusef Sharif said in an
February 12, 2025
Barrick Gold will resume operations at its shuttered Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali once authorities in the country allow it to resume gold shipments
February 12, 2025
Senegal's Court of Auditors released a long-awaited review of the country's finances on Wednesday that confirmed the previous government
February 12, 2025Representatives of Congo's powerful Catholic church met on Wednesday with a rebel leader whose Rwandan-backed M23 forces last month seized Goma, the biggest city in the country's east, and
February 12, 2025
Global marine fuel sales jumped in 2024 after attacks by Yemen's Houthis starting in late 2023 prompted most shipping companies to divert vessels around southern
February 12, 2025
Families and activists in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, have protested over the government’s closure of a critical unit at the main public hospital following two sudden deaths
February 12, 2025
Senegal and France will set up a joint commission to organize the departure of French troops from Senegal and the restitution of French military bases by the end of 2025, the foreign
February 12, 2025Christian aid groups are being hard-hit after the Trump administration froze most foreign aid and sidelined the U.S. Agency for International Development
February 12, 2025
South Africa's G20 presidency was meant to be an opportunity to get rich, powerful nations to pay attention to poorer countries'
February 12, 2025
Beijing has long used infrastructure development as a means of building influence in Africa. Now, it’s using media as well.
February 12, 2025
A Libyan state minister survived an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, a government statement said.
February 12, 2025Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
February 12, 2025
South African business confidence stabilised in January, data showed on Wednesday, after surging in the second half of 2024 because of optimism about the country's economic
February 12, 2025
A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said, two weeks after the country's top
February 12, 2025
Amnesty International has released a report that details the impact gang violence has had on children across Haiti and called for immediate action
February 12, 2025
In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia’s capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under the baking sun not sure if they can have access to food rations and medication following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decree to freeze most of his country’s foreign aid
February 11, 2025
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities controlled by Rwanda-backed rebels after the rebels were accused of forced camp closures
February 11, 2025
Egypt said on Tuesday it plans to offer a "comprehensive proposal" to rebuild Gaza while ensuring Palestinians remain on their land, according to a foreign ministry statement.
February 11, 2025
A U.S. pause on foreign aid has had a "major impact" in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where humanitarian operations last year were 70% funded by
February 11, 2025
The Rwandan-backed M23 armed group in Democratic Republic of Congo threatened on Tuesday to advance on the provincial capital of Bukavu, citing a "dangerously deteriorating" situation, as
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
The United Arab Emirates called on Tuesday for a ceasefire in Sudan during the coming holy month of Ramadan, a UAE official said, a call rejected by the Sudanese army, as the
February 11, 2025
On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to
February 11, 2025
The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces repelled the
February 11, 2025Armed militants killed more than 35 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of
February 11, 2025They line up by the hundreds to meet recruiters at schools in provincial towns and convention halls in large cities, some carrying advanced
February 11, 2025
What we know about the Super Bowl halftime show demonstrator
February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025
Pakistan says at least 16 citizens died when a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants capsized near the Libyan coast over the weekend
February 11, 2025South Africa does have a history of racist land inequality. Just not in the way Trump and Musk are portraying
February 11, 2025
Authorities say militia fighters in northeastern Congo have killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages and a camp for displaced people camp
February 11, 2025Health authorities in Uganda say Ebola cases in the country have risen to nine while 265 other people are being monitored under quarantine
February 11, 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected U.S.
February 10, 2025
Suspected Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa
February 11, 2025The United States Geological survey (USGS) said early on Tuesday that a 5.1 magnitude quake hit near Ksar el Kebir in northern Morocco. There were no official reports of casualties.
February 10, 2025The trial of 84 Congolese soldiers accused of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians in the country’s conflict-battered east has begun
February 10, 2025Making a splash in South Sudan: Local students saving lives in remote African villages
February 10, 2025Mediators fear a breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, two Egyptian security sources said on Monday, after Hamas said Israel was not serious about executing the deal and
February 10, 2025Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate inched down to 24% year-on-year in January from 24.1% in December, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Monday.
February 10, 2025
South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic
February 10, 2025
South Africa’s second biggest political party has launched a legal challenge against a new land expropriation law that was roundly criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump
February 10, 2025
The party of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma on Monday filed a treason complaint against AfriForum, a group championing the white Afrikaner minority, after
February 10, 2025
Botswana's economy is forecast to grow 3.3% this year after a contraction in 2024, due to an expected recovery in the global diamond market, its
February 10, 2025
Some of the bodies of migrants found in two mass graves in Libya bore gunshot wounds, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday, adding that one of the sites is
February 10, 2025
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped
February 10, 2025
South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due
February 10, 2025The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on all sides by vast
February 09, 2025
The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony
February 09, 2025
Egypt has announced it will host an emergency Arab summit on Feb. 27 to discuss “new and dangerous developments” after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
February 09, 2025Egypt disapproves of the statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in U.S. media describing them as "misleading accusations", the foreign ministry said late on
February 09, 2025
Congo authorities will put at least 75 soldiers on trial on Monday for fleeing the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into the eastern province of South Kivu and for violence against
February 09, 2025
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February 09, 2025
The formation of a new Sudanese government is expected to happen after the recapture of Khartoum is completed, military sources told Reuters on Sunday, a day
February 09, 2025
Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country
February 09, 2025
Libya's security authorities recovered at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya, the country's attorney general said on its Facebook page
February 09, 2025Ethiopia is in the "final stages" of negotiations with its creditors in an ongoing plan to restructure its debt, its finance minister, Ahmed Shide, said on Sunday.
February 09, 2025
Egypt will host an emergency Arab summit on 27 February to discuss what it described as "serious" developments for Palestinians, according to a statement from the Egyptian foreign
February 09, 2025
Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern city of Gao on Friday, the army said late on Saturday.
February 09, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group
February 08, 2025
Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government
February 08, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing
February 07, 2025
Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks
February 08, 2025
Trump freezes aid to South Africa over controversial land law, claiming discrimination against White farmers
February 08, 2025
Former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam has renounced his French citizenship to meet eligibility conditions for Ivory Coast's presidential election in October, as his party mulls
February 08, 2025
Egypt condemned statements by Israeli officials suggesting the establishment of a Palestinian state on Saudi territory as "irresponsible" on Saturday.
February 08, 2025
In Ghana and Kenya, insecticide and mosquito nets sit in warehouses because U.S. officials haven’t approved urgent anti-malaria campaigns.
February 08, 2025
Leaders at an unprecedented joint summit of Eastern and Southern African blocs aimed at defusing the crisis in Eastern Congo urged
February 08, 2025
More than 50 people were killed near Mali's northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said.
February 08, 2025President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era
February 07, 2025
Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key city of Goma in a blitz offensive in the mineral-rich region
February 08, 2025
At least 29 bodies of migrants have been recovered in two locations in the southeast and west of Libya, a security directorate and the Libyan Red Crescent said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
Sexual violence against children in Haiti has surged in the last year and their bodies have been turned into "battlegrounds," UNICEF warned on Friday.
February 07, 2025
The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual
February 06, 2025
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February 07, 2025
Egypt said on Friday it had been in contact with Arab partners including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to firm up the region's rejection of any displacement of
February 07, 2025
The U.S. has warned of possible sanctions against Rwandan and Congolese officials ahead of a summit meant to address the escalating conflict in eastern Congo, according to a
February 07, 2025
Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was fomenting conflict inside its neighbour's border.
February 07, 2025Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and the deadly mpox virus, the
February 07, 2025
The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city
February 07, 2025Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a weeks-long offensive they hope will
February 07, 2025
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February 07, 2025
The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety
February 06, 2025
The U.N.
February 07, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to respond to threats from U_S_ counterpart Donald Trump by saying in his annual speech to the nation that his country would “not be bullied.”
February 06, 2025
Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in line with President Donald Trump’s plan to empty the territory of its population
February 06, 2025
The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global
February 06, 2025
The cobalt market is no stranger to boom and bust cycles but the current downturn is unprecedented and no-one is sure how long it's going to last.
February 06, 2025
More than 100 Kenyan police arrived in Haiti's capital on Thursday to reinforce a security mission whose future has been in limbo, after the U.S. froze some funding
February 06, 2025
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday warned doctors and other healthcare workers about an outbreak of Ebola cases in Uganda.
February 06, 2025
The United States' decision to freeze and potentially scrap its core aid agency jolted countries receiving its funding and could make it harder
February 06, 2025
Zimbabwe's central bank said on Thursday that its monetary policy rate had been kept unchanged at 35%.
February 06, 2025
"We are staying here and dying here."
February 06, 2025
Morocco stopped 78,685 migrants from illegally crossing into European Union territory in 2024, up 4.6% from a year earlier, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
February 06, 2025
Africa's leading public health official will write to the U.S.
February 06, 2025
The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon after nearly seven decades as the spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community, will be
February 06, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi will take part in a joint summit of Eastern and Southern African leaders starting on Friday to discuss the conflict in its east,
February 06, 2025
A Swiss aid group said on Thursday that three of its local employees were killed during an attack while on a humanitarian mission in eastern Congo where Rwandan-backed M23 rebels
February 06, 2025Travelers and health-care providers should be on alert due to Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda, CDC warns
February 06, 2025
Kenya's central bank governor said on Thursday that bank officials did not see much effect on the exchange rate from U.S.
February 06, 2025
More than 150 female inmates raped and burned to death during Goma jailbreak in DRC, UN says
February 06, 2025
The bodies of four Pakistanis who drowned in the capsizing of a migrant boat off West Africa last month have been repatriated
February 06, 2025A non-profit organization supporting LGBTQ people in Uganda says its work is being threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign aid
February 06, 2025
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February 06, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk on the subject of misinformation about South Africa, the presidency said on Tuesday, after U.S.
February 04, 2025
Stunned Palestinians rejected President Donald Trump's proposal to expel them from the Gaza Strip so that the U.S. could take over the territory and rebuild it for others
February 05, 2025
The Tunisian president on Wednesday sacked Finance Minister Sihem Boughdiri and named Michkat Khaldi, a judge, as new finance minister.
February 05, 2025U.S. health officials are telling Americans to take precautions if they travel to Uganda because of an Ebola outbreak
February 05, 2025
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on
February 05, 2025
Officials and residents say Rwanda-backed rebels have gained ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week, taking control of a town 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu
February 05, 2025
Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of
February 04, 2025
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Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered defense forces to begin preparations for a withdrawal of its troops from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a statement said on
February 05, 2025
A Tunisian court sentenced a number of top politicians, former officials and journalists to long prison terms on Wednesday, defence lawyers said, the latest move in what critics say
February 05, 2025
Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to
February 05, 2025At least 17 students died in a fire in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state on Tuesday night, a state police spokesperson said on Wednesday.
February 05, 2025Kenya has already started talks with International Monetary Fund officials to secure a new lending program when the current one expires in April, its finance
February 05, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the country's funding over a land expropriation law
February 05, 2025
Italy’s justice minister has strongly defended the government’s decision to free and repatriate a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court
February 05, 2025
Beyond the short-term volatility and uncertainty created by U.S.
February 05, 2025
These apes can tell when humans don’t know something, study finds
February 05, 2025South African private sector activity contracted sharply in January as output fell due to lower sales, a survey showed on Wednesday.
February 05, 2025
Kenya's private sector activity expanded for a fourth straight month in January but only modestly and at a slower pace than in December, a survey showed on Wednesday.
February 05, 2025
Uganda's police have detained nine finance ministry officials as part of an investigation into accusations of hacking the central bank's electronic systems that resulted in theft
February 05, 2025South Africa's president needed to call Elon Musk on Monday evening.
February 04, 2025
Seventy soldiers from El Salvador have arrived in Haiti to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital
February 04, 2025Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S.
February 04, 2025Congo’s government has described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo as “false communication,” while the United Nations on Tuesday noted reports of heavy fighting with Congolese forces in the region
February 04, 2025
Man makes unexpected discovery while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
February 04, 2025
A U.N. aid official said on Tuesday that a U.S. funding pause would cut off millions of Afghans from sexual and reproductive health services, and the continued absence
February 04, 2025
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February 04, 2025
In an exclusive interview with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, CNN's Larry Madowo pressed the country's leader on the uptick in violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kagame has been accused by the Congolese government of supporting the rebel group M23 in the DRC. UN experts believe that an up to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers are supporting M23 fighters there.
February 04, 2025
The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.K. and Zimbabwe before fleeing to South Africa, where he died in 2018
February 04, 2025The U.N.
February 04, 2025South African president and Elon Musk discuss ‘misinformation’ after Trump aid threat
February 04, 2025
Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels
February 04, 2025
Ukraine is studying the possibility of opening a logistics hub in Egypt for supplies of Ukrainian agricultural products to the region, agriculture minister Vitaliy Koval said on
February 04, 2025Rebels call for ceasefire in DR Congo after hundreds are killed in a week of fighting
February 04, 2025
Nigeria's largest labour union has suspended a planned nationwide protest against a 50% hike in telecommunications tariffs and will negotiate with the government to
February 04, 2025Uganda has begun a trial vaccination programme for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country's latest outbreak, according to the World
February 03, 2025
Egypt's non-oil private sector expanded in January, marking its best performance in over four years and its first growth since August as output and sales volumes increased, a
February 04, 2025
Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week
February 03, 2025
Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker Chrysalis, which was attacked by Yemen's Houthis last year, sailed through the Red Sea this week, the Suez Canal said on Monday, in one of the first
February 03, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a massive human rights violation
February 03, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country’s polices, claiming a “massive” human rights violation is happening over a new land expropriation law
February 03, 2025
The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma have announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region for humanitarian reasons
February 03, 2025
The international community must take concrete action and impose sanctions on Rwanda to curb the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Congo and keep the
February 03, 2025
The Eastern Congo rebel alliance that includes the M23 has declared a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons starting on Feb. 4, the group known as the Congo River Alliance said in a
February 03, 2025
Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely untouched by criminals
February 03, 2025Rwanda’s president says he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in DRC
February 03, 2025
As Rwanda-backed M23
January 31, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa defended his land reform policy on Monday against an attack by Donald Trump that laid bare deep
February 03, 2025
The Nigerian government is in talks with local communities to restart oil production in a region that’s previously suffered environmental damage after oil giant Shell’s sale of its onshore business in the country
February 03, 2025
Weeks into the ceasefire in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians who left for neighbouring Egypt are grappling with the question of when they might go home, though they
February 03, 2025
African countries plan a fresh push at international summits this year for standard measures of economic strength such as GDP to have better recognition of
February 03, 2025
A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as
February 03, 2025The cost of insuring South Africa's debt against default rose to its highest since early August on Monday, after U.S.
February 03, 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa's land policy on Monday after Donald Trump's threat to cut off funding because of what he said were land
February 03, 2025
Two former company executives with inside knowledge of Barrick Gold's operations in West Africa are helping to drive Mali's demands for a payment of around $200 million from the Canadian
February 01, 2025
Gunmen suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted five government officials in northeast Kenya on Monday as they were on their way to work, local
February 03, 2025Ghana's consumer inflation dipped slightly to 23.5% year-on-year in January from 23.8% in December, the statistics service said on Monday.
February 03, 2025
Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the major city in eastern Congo last week
February 03, 2025
South Africa denies ‘confiscating land,’ after Trump threatens to cut off aid
February 03, 2025
South African manufacturers reported a deterioration in business conditions for the third month in a row in January, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on
February 03, 2025
The South African government has given Taiwan a deadline of the end of March to relocate the island's de facto embassy outside of the capital city Pretoria, the Taiwanese Foreign
February 03, 2025
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February 02, 2025
South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S.
February 03, 2025Unidentified attackers raided cattle camps in a southeastern area of South Sudan last week, killing at least 35 people and wounding 46, a community leader said.
February 03, 2025Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a makeshift displacement
February 02, 2025
Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala
February 02, 2025
Sudan’s health authorities say a paramilitary group has attacked an open market in the city of Omdurman, killing 54 people and wounding scores
February 01, 2025
A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt for treatment
February 01, 2025
U.S. forces carried out airstrikes in Somalia on Saturday targeting a senior Islamic State attack planner and other members of the
February 01, 2025
The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term
February 01, 2025
An Italian navy ship has taken migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome
February 01, 2025
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
February 01, 2025
Powerful Arab nations have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan
February 01, 2025
There were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of Jan. 30 following this week's offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, the Democratic Republic
February 01, 2025
At least 54 people were killed and 158 wounded on Saturday in a strike by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a market in the city of Omdurman, the health ministry said in a
February 01, 2025Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national
February 01, 2025How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
February 01, 2025
Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land under any circumstances, presenting a unified stance against U.S.
February 01, 2025Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday his government would continue to prosecute civilians in military tribunals even after the country's top court banned the
February 01, 2025
Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age
February 01, 2025
The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first rebellion in 2012
February 01, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong protections", including from "malign influence", for a U.S.-
January 31, 2025
France will propose a draft resolution to the U.N.
January 31, 2025
The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region’s major city
January 31, 2025
Switzerland’s top criminal court convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities trader Trafigura in a case of bribery linked to lucrative oil industry contracts in Angola
January 31, 2025
Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-Italian influencer who ranks as world’s most popular TikTok personality, has been named as a goodwill ambassador by the U.N.'s children’s agency
January 31, 2025
UN says more than 700 killed in just five days of fighting in DR Congo
January 31, 2025
Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi congratulated Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was appointed on Wednesday by armed factions, and wished him success in achieving the
January 31, 2025
Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels seeking to expand their grip on eastern Congo in a weeks-old
January 31, 2025
From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in
January 31, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped
January 24, 2025
Tourist trampled to death by elephant while reportedly trying to save his grandchild at South Africa park
January 31, 2025
Switzerland's top criminal court convicted trading house Trafigura and a former senior executive of corruption on Friday in an unprecedented case over
January 31, 2025
The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the bombing of displacement camps, reports of gang rape and other
January 31, 2025
Uganda's top court said on Friday that trying civilians in military courts was unconstitutional and ordered any ongoing prosecutions to stop immediately.
January 31, 2025
Thousands of people demonstrated at the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an eyewitness told Reuters, in a rare state-sanctioned protest against a proposal earlier this week by U.S.
January 31, 2025
Africa's biggest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are working on deals to gain exposure to metal trading
January 31, 2025
Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie has told shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk there are signs of stability returning to the Red Sea, and urged the company to take that into
January 31, 2025
Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African country
January 30, 2025Rwanda-backed rebels who have captured eastern Congo’s largest city say they plan to take their rebellion to the capital and seek to gain political power
January 30, 2025
South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in
January 30, 2025
When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw.
January 30, 2025
Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali
January 31, 2025
In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid to put pressure on Rwanda to withdraw its support
January 30, 2025A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023
January 30, 2025
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