Gabon has suspended access to social media and digital platforms throughout the central African nation until further notice as critics accuse the country’s leader of crackdown on dissent
February 18, 2026Lawyers say a new group of third-country nationals has been deported by the United States to Cameroon
February 16, 2026In Nigeria's capital, a rock musician is taking to the streets with roses and a guitar to remind people to slow down and feel the love ahead of Valentine's Day
February 14, 2026The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead
February 12, 2026Authorities say Cyclone Gezani killed at least 36 people, injured more than 370 and destroyed almost 18,000 homes across Madagascar
February 12, 2026Authorities in Madagascar say at least 31 people have died after Tropical Cyclone Gezani hit the large Indian Ocean island
February 11, 2026The British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale were both toddlers when their father died
February 11, 2026The U.N. migration agency says a shipwreck off Libya's coast has left at least 53 Europe-bound migrants dead or missing
February 09, 2026A drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including eight children
February 07, 2026In the Nigerian villages of Woro and Nuku, attackers arrived on motorbikes, going door to door, shooting and setting homes ablaze
February 06, 2026The Nigerian government has launched a military operation against Islamic militants after more than 160 people were killed in Muslim-majority villages
February 05, 2026A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, where acute malnutrition has been registered in two more towns there
February 05, 2026From scarcity to pride: How one country rebuilt its food culture after decades of war
February 05, 2026Armed extremists have killed over 162 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara state, western Nigeria, a lawmaker said
February 04, 2026Son of Libya’s late dictator Gadhafi shot dead by gunmen, political team says
February 04, 2026Kenya is rolling out tax breaks to encourage use of electric vehicles
February 04, 2026Libyan officials say that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has been killed in the northern African country
February 03, 2026A landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine and families of the deceased are mourning their lost loved ones
February 03, 2026Humanitarian organizations in South Sudan say restricted access to the conflict-hit eastern state of Jonglei has left thousands of people in need of lifesaving medical care and food assistance at risk
February 02, 2026Fela Kuti has become the first African to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the Grammys Special Merit Awards
February 02, 2026A landslide last week collapsed tunnels at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead
February 02, 2026Three months after paramilitary fighters overran the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a doctor is providing a rare first-person account of the attack
January 31, 2026Uganda’s army chief accused U.S. Embassy officials of helping opposition leader Bobi Wine as he went into hiding
January 30, 2026The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base in Niger's capital
January 30, 2026Ethiopia’s national carrier cancelled flights to and from its troubled northern region of Tigray as fears grew of a renewed fighting between federal troops and regional forces
January 30, 2026South Africa has declared Israel’s deputy ambassador persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours
January 30, 2026Researchers say human-induced climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods in southern Africa
January 29, 2026A crash involving a minibus taxi and a truck has killed at least 11 people in South Africa
January 29, 2026Spain will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization
January 27, 2026A military hunt is underway in Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine, whom the country's army chief is calling a wanted fugitive
January 27, 2026The Nigerian military says several of its officers will face trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the West African nation’s government
January 26, 2026Michelle Francine Ngonmo, a Cameroonian-Italian, has dedicated her career to promoting Africans and people of color in Italian fashion
January 26, 2026Armed men entered the home of Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and held his wife, Barbara Kyagulanyi, at gunpoint as they demanded to know his whereabouts
January 24, 2026After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars in public funds
January 24, 2026Senegal has won the Africa Cup of Nations in dramatic fashion
January 18, 2026Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by the Gates Foundation to support 1,000 clinics across Africa with the aim to improve health care services
January 22, 2026The driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria was arraigned on Tuesday
January 20, 2026Witness testimony has ended in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack
January 20, 2026Senegal's team receives a heroes' welcome in Dakar following their Africa Cup of Nations victory
January 20, 2026Player protests, an awful penalty and fan uproar: What happened in the most chaotic AFCON final in history
January 19, 2026Shapiro says Harris’ vetting team asked whether he was ‘an agent of the Israeli government’
January 19, 2026Authorities in South Africa say a collision between a truck and a school minibus in Gauteng province has killed at least 13 children
January 19, 2026Senegal is celebrating after its soccer team defeated Morocco 1-0 to win the Africa Cup of Nations
January 19, 2026President Yoweri Museveni says his landslide victory in Uganda's election shows his party's dominance
January 18, 2026Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has won his seventh term with 71.65% of the votes
January 17, 2026President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing
January 16, 2026Authorities say torrential rains and flooding have killed more than 100 people in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in recent weeks and are warning that more severe weather is expected across the southern African region
January 16, 2026Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has an early lead in a tense presidential election
January 16, 2026Widespread delays have plagued voting in Uganda’s presidential election
January 15, 2026A pop star, an aging autocrat and a crackdown: What to expect from Uganda’s election
January 14, 2026Peace efforts in Sudan have resumed in Cairo, with Egypt and the United Nations urging warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce
January 14, 2026The Ugandan opposition leader known as Bobi Wine has been campaigning for president in a flak jacket and helmet as soldiers filled the streets of the capital, Kampala
January 14, 2026The Trump administration has announced it will end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants
January 13, 2026Senegal and Ivory Coast fans who want to support their teams at the World Cup this summer have had their plans upended because of a travel ban imposed by the Trump administration
January 13, 2026Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Ugandan president’s military son, is not on the ballot in Thursday's presidential election
January 12, 2026Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman
January 10, 2026Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday
January 09, 2026A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others
January 09, 2026Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela
January 09, 2026Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland
January 09, 2026A tennis player played so poorly that it went viral. Tournament organizers say they should have never let it happen
January 08, 2026Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program
January 08, 2026Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints
January 08, 2026The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians
January 07, 2026President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”
January 07, 2026Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution
January 07, 2026Uganda is preparing for a election in an atmosphere of political violence
January 07, 2026Provisional results have shown Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra won a third term in last month’s election
January 06, 2026British boxer Anthony Joshua has reportedly returned to the UK after a deadly crash in Nigeria
January 03, 2026Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved "super tusker" elephant named Craig
January 03, 2026Police say the driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria has been charged
January 02, 2026A multi-story building under construction in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, collapsed Friday, leaving at least four people believed trapped, according to a government official
January 02, 2026British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries sustained after a deadly crash
January 01, 2026British boxer Anthony Joshua injured in car crash that killed two close friends in Nigeria
December 29, 2025Bazoumana Touré scores in stoppage time as defending champion Ivory Coast recovers from a two-goal deficit to beat Gabon 3-2 in the Africa Cup of Nations
December 31, 2025Mali and Burkina Faso have banned U.S. citizens from entering their countries
December 31, 2025Authorities report that at least 41 young men have died from circumcision procedures during traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December
December 30, 2025Tributes have been paid after the crash that injured British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two close associates
December 30, 2025Host nation Morocco and South Africa have advanced to the Africa Cup of Nations’ knockout stage
December 29, 2025CNN’s Rahel Solomon spoke to Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar after President Donald Trump said he ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, whom he accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
December 25, 2025Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup
December 28, 2025The Central African Republic voted on Sunday to elect a new president and federal lawmakers
December 28, 2025Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area
December 27, 2025A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit
December 26, 2025Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria
December 25, 2025Trump says violence in Nigeria targets Christians. The reality is more nuanced
December 26, 2025The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years
December 26, 2025President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians
December 25, 2025A bomb has exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people
December 25, 2025Ivory Coast has got its Africa Cup of Nations title defense off to a winning start and France great Zinedine Zidane has watched his goalkeeper son’s safe hands as Algeria also started its campaign with a win
December 24, 2025Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction
December 24, 2025Search teams in Turkey have recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a jet crash that killed eight people, including Libya’s military chief
December 24, 2025Guineans are set to vote Sunday in their first presidential election since a military coup four years ago
December 24, 2025Libya’s army chief killed in plane crash in Turkey
December 23, 2025Nigerians have welcomed back 130 children and teachers who were released after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history
December 22, 2025Sudan’s prime minister is proposing a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force
December 23, 2025A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter
December 22, 2025Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels
December 22, 2025A spectacular bicycle kick has earned royal approval for Ayoub El Kaabi as host Morocco opened the 35th Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Comoros
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