The Trump administration on Tuesday condemned attacks by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on civilians in North Darfur and called for parties in the country's civil war to be
April 15, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Tuesday, demanding accountability, after three students died on Monday following a school wall collapse in the central town of Mazzouna, an
April 15, 2025
Britain and the European Union have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to ease suffering in Sudan
April 15, 2025
The push for slavery reparations is at a defining moment, a Caribbean Community official said on the second day of a United Nations forum, adding it was time to step up
April 15, 2025
France will expel 12 agents serving in the Algerian consular and diplomatic network in France and will recall its ambassador to Algiers for consultations, the French presidency said
April 15, 2025
France says it is expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials, a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two countries
April 15, 2025
Trump administration looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates
April 15, 2025
Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA said on Tuesday its disqualification from elections due later this year was unconstitutional, days after its leader was arrested and
April 15, 2025
Nigeria's headline consumer inflation edged up to 24.23% year-on-year in March from 23.18% in February, its statistics agency said on Tuesday.
April 15, 2025
South Africa’s new special envoy to the United States is already under scrutiny for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a racist, homophobic and narcissistic “right-winger” in a speech in 2020
April 15, 2025
The European Union and Britain pledged on Tuesday to increase aid for Sudan, at a conference in London marking the second anniversary of a conflict that has
April 14, 2025
Four smugglers caught trying to transport thousands of live ants out of Kenya for sale on exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia will be sentenced
April 15, 2025
The towering legacy of Dikembe Mutombo
April 15, 2025
Ghana and the International Monetary Fund have reached a staff-level agreement on the fourth review of its $3 billion loan programme, the IMF
April 15, 2025
Criticism grows around proposed 64-team World Cup in 2030
April 15, 2025
Ras Hankorab Beach, a pristine spot on southern Egypt's Red Sea coast with crystal clear waters and flat white sands, is the jewel of Egypt's Wadi el-Gemal
April 15, 2025
A group of more than 270 some men and women, who were rescued from forced labor in scam compounds months earlier but remain in detention in Myanmar, attempted a mass escape Sunday from a guarded facility out of fear that they may end up being sent back to the places they were trying to escape from, where they face beatings, torture and potentially even death
April 15, 2025
A steep drop in crude oil prices largely due to U.S.
April 15, 2025
The U.N. humanitarian agency says more than 300 civilians were killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region
April 14, 2025
Haiti’s government says it's adopted what it called a “war budget” of $275,000 aimed at alleviating the country’s crisis as gang violence surges
April 14, 2025
Mediators Egypt and Qatar have presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas, Egyptian state-affiliated Al Qahera News
April 14, 2025
Hamas said on Monday it was studying the proposal it received from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding it will submit its response "as soon as possible."
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
Between 60,000 and 80,000 households - or up to 400,000 people, - have been displaced from Sudan's Zamzam camp in North Darfur after it was taken over by the Rapid Support Forces,
April 14, 2025
Cocoa farmers in the world's top-producing country Ivory Coast warn insufficient rainfall could hurt both the quality and size of the April-to-September mid-crop.
April 14, 2025
Colombia's Vice President Francia Marquez, an advocate of slavery reparations, urged former colonial powers to take responsibility for their past wrongs and called for a
April 14, 2025
The Greek coast guard said it had found the bodies of two women and 39 other migrants on the tiny island of Farmakonisi in the Aegean Sea on Monday, and that an investigation was
April 14, 2025
Qatar and Egypt agreed to work towards a package of $7.5 billion in direct Qatari investments, according to a joint statement released by the Egyptian president's office on Monday.
April 14, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as his special envoy to the United
April 14, 2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a former deputy finance minister as a special envoy to the United States after the ambassador was expelled last month
April 14, 2025
The South African rand firmed on Monday, boosted by a news report that the country's biggest political party may back down on a plan to raise value-added tax (VAT) and dollar
April 14, 2025
A court in Mauritius has granted bail to a former finance minister charged with fraud over alleged embezzlement at a state-owned company, his lawyer and the financial crimes
April 14, 2025
France said on Monday that Algeria had threatened to expel 12 of its diplomatic staff and that it would take immediate reprisals should that occur in the latest flare-up between them
April 14, 2025
For South African beverage company owner, Ndumiso Madlala, the impending value-added tax hike could spell trouble for his small-scale
April 14, 2025
The exhibition halls of Sudan's biggest museum were once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations
April 14, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary group said on Sunday, after a four-day assault the government
April 13, 2025
Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast,
April 13, 2025
Provisional results announced by the country’s interior ministry show that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup that ended a decadeslong political dynasty, has been elected president
April 13, 2025
SpaceX's Starlink satellite system is now available in Somalia, owner Elon Musk wrote on social media platform X on Sunday, while a Somalia government official confirmed the company has
April 13, 2025
Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels
April 13, 2025
A devastating assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Zamzam Camp for displaced people near al-Fasher has left hundreds dead or wounded, the foreign ministry and aid groups
April 12, 2025
Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA has been disqualified from elections due later this year, a senior election commission official said on Saturday, days after the
April 12, 2025
A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a two-day offensive by a notorious paramilitary group
April 12, 2025
Most polls have closed in the oil-rich Gabon following a presidential election that the country’s military rulers hoped would legitimize their grip on power
April 12, 2025
Gabon's coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema looked to cement his grip on power as the oil-producing Central African nation held a presidential election
April 11, 2025
Vultures have an image problem and are among the least loved animals in the world
April 12, 2025
UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis
April 11, 2025
In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at attention in a clearing
April 11, 2025
Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of thousands were deprived of protection
April 11, 2025
A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl
April 11, 2025
Authorities in Nigeria have barred radio stations from playing a song critical of President Bola Tinubu and his administration’s policies
April 11, 2025
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu survived being shot 16 times in 2017 and has been arrested on multiple occasions, but
April 11, 2025
Children including toddlers represent more than a third of victims in nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in eastern Congo in the first two
April 11, 2025
Turmoil in the wake of U.S.
April 11, 2025
Over a thousand Sudanese refugees have reached or attempted to reach Europe in early 2025, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Friday, citing growing desperation in part due
April 11, 2025
Nigerian traveler says her thwarted world record attempt shows ‘passport privilege’ is real
April 11, 2025
China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had discussions with his Saudi Arabian and South African counterparts to exchange views on responding to the United States' "reciprocal
April 10, 2025
A senior U.N. official says a nearly two-year-old war has engulfed Sudan in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and led the African country to become the only nation experiencing famine
April 10, 2025
An ex-military officer in Gambia and others have testified this week against a man on trial in the United States accused of conspiring to torture people accused of opposing the West African nation's longtime dictator
April 10, 2025
Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, could take measures to make the product more expensive if tariffs proposed by U.S.
April 10, 2025
Morocco’s social security agency says troves of data were stolen from its systems during a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the Telegram messaging app
April 10, 2025
African nations that were facing some of the steepest reciprocal tariffs from the Trump administration have been given a moment of relief with the pausing of the duties
April 10, 2025
South Africa is considering offering additional incentives to automakers to help cushion the impact of U.S.
April 10, 2025
Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ceasefire and end months of fighting that have raised
April 10, 2025
The U.S.
April 09, 2025
Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo have been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with staging an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African nation’s government
April 09, 2025
U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund support for some Central African countries, in an effort to
April 09, 2025
Tanzanian police arrested the leader of the country's main opposition party on Wednesday as he finished addressing a public meeting, his party said.
April 09, 2025
Authorities in Mauritius arrested the former finance minister and central bank governor on Wednesday as part of an investigation into embezzlement at a state company, the Indian
April 09, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians staged two protest rallies on Wednesday against what they say is the authoritarian rule of President Kais Saied and demanded the release of
April 09, 2025
The top opposition candidate in Gabon's presidential election challenged the eligibility of Brice Oligui Nguema in an
April 09, 2025
An aid organization says five children are among eight people who have died from cholera in South Sudan after aid cuts are forcing patients to walk for hours to reach the nearest clinics
April 09, 2025
Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram has renewed attacks and kidnappings in northeastern Borno state with little push back from security forces,
April 09, 2025
Petra Diamonds, which has the world's third-largest resource of diamonds, said on Wednesday it had delayed the sale of gems from its Cullinan Mine in South Africa until there was greater
April 09, 2025
International debt issued by small emerging economies generally viewed as riskier by investors suffered another sharp drop on
April 09, 2025
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila will return to the central African nation to help find a solution to the crisis in the war-ravaged east, where Rwanda-backed M23
April 09, 2025
Peace talks between Congo's government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels planned for Wednesday in Doha have been postponed, sources from both sides told Reuters this week, with
April 09, 2025
In December, Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he
April 09, 2025
Voters in Gabon will go to the polls on Saturday in a presidential election as the country's junta leader seeks democratic legitimacy after taking power in a 2023
April 09, 2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services
April 08, 2025
USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences
April 08, 2025
Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North
April 08, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently canceled U.S. foreign aid
April 08, 2025
Congo says three Americans convicted of participating in a botched coup attempt last year have been repatriated to the United States
April 08, 2025
The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table
April 08, 2025
Three American citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to U.S. custody on
April 08, 2025
A lawyer for a man accused of torturing people suspected in a planned coup against Gambia’s longtime president says the defendant was a mere private in the West African country’s military who risked torture and death himself if he disobeyed superiors
April 08, 2025
South Sudan to admit man deported by US after blanket visa ban
April 08, 2025
At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one
April 08, 2025
The African National Congress remains committed to South Africa's multiparty government, it said on Tuesday, after its main coalition partner, the Democratic
April 08, 2025
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday appointed Tadesse Worede to lead the interim administration in the northern Tigray region, where divisions in
April 08, 2025
Gabon holds a presidential election on Saturday, the first since a 2023 coup ended the Bongo family's 56-year dynasty and which the country's new military
April 08, 2025
Tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will hurt South African citrus farms and could potentially affect 35,000 jobs, a farmers' association said on Tuesday.
April 08, 2025
The humanitarian situation in Haiti is dramatically worsening, aid group Save the Children said, with underfunded security forces increasingly overwhelmed by powerful gangs and capital
April 07, 2025
A new report by the U.N. political mission in Haiti says more than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in the country's capital
April 07, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S.
April 07, 2025
Aid cuts threaten progress toward ending deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, WHO warns
April 07, 2025
The morning sun cast long shadows as Abdulilah Mohamed, an elderly resident of Sharg Elnil in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, returned to his family home after fleeing from
April 07, 2025
Arab states formally support the Palestinian cause but security, regional and sectarian tensions have strained their ties with the Palestinians
April 07, 2025
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