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
(The Jan. 24 story said the president's comments confirmed accusations he had been grooming his son to take over.
January 24, 2025
(This Jan. 25 story has been corrected to clarify that President Assoumani's remarks have been interpreted in different ways by the government and his opponents.
January 25, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo authorities are investigating 12 possible cases of the deadly Ebola virus in its northwest, Africa's main health body said on Thursday, though first
January 30, 2025
Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, on Thursday confirmed the killing of its military leader Mohammed Deif and deputy military commander Marwan Issa in combat.
January 30, 2025
The United Nations expressed deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south towards the Congolese city of Bukavu on Thursday, as the militants sought also to
January 30, 2025
Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said
January 30, 2025
DR Congo’s president says country won’t be humiliated after rebels claim takeover
January 30, 2025
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that over 2,000 people have been wounded by fighting in and around Congo's city of Goma and 45 people have died, citing unnamed
January 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described the crisis between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo as a "very serious problem."
January 30, 2025
France's foreign minister was due in Rwanda on Thursday after talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of efforts to prevent a
January 30, 2025
France has handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities
January 30, 2025
A daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been arrested on terrorism charges for allegedly inciting violence during deadly riots that shook the country in 2021
January 30, 2025Some of the world's smallest economies, especially in Africa, could be at increased risk of being unable to pay their debts in the medium term, even as
January 30, 2025
Morocco has halted imports of feed grains from Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the head of Morocco's grain trade federation (FNCL) said on Thursday.
January 30, 2025
Nigeria's main labour union has rejected a government-approved 50% hike in telecommunications tariffs and announced plans for a nationwide protest on Feb. 4.
January 30, 2025
The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work such as investigating human rights abuses around the world from Syria to
January 30, 2025
Britain has warned Rwanda that its involvement in an escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo could jeopardise the over $1 billion of aid it receives every year.
January 30, 2025
Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body
January 30, 2025The International Criminal Court has found itself without a single trial ahead for the first time in years
January 29, 2025
Rebels backed by Rwanda have captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the conflict-battered region
January 29, 2025
As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels
January 29, 2025
Rwanda, which diplomats say backs M23 fighters who seized Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo this week, called on Wednesday for a ceasefire across eastern Congo and for
January 29, 2025
A fire aboard the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia on Tuesday was not linked to Houthi attacks, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center said on Wednesday.
January 29, 2025Israel and Hamas say the militant group will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, along with five Thai nationals in the next hostage release on Thursday
January 29, 2025
Health and humanitarian groups around the world were still uncertain on Wednesday if and how they could resume work after
January 29, 2025
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS
January 29, 2025
Residents of Congo’s besieged city live in fear as government forces battle rebel takeover
January 29, 2025
A woman in South Africa has rescued more than 2,500 pugs over the years after she and her husband sold their house, lived in a trailer home for a while and generally reset their lives to help as many dogs in need as they could
January 29, 2025
Migrants expressed their dismay and sense of betrayal on Wednesday over Italy's decision last week to release a Libyan policeman wanted by the International Criminal
January 29, 2025
Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by
January 29, 2025
A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, killing 20 people, the region's information minister
January 29, 2025
Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s interior and seek the protection of an army in disarray, or cross into nearby Rwanda, which is accused of backing the rebels
January 29, 2025
South Sudanese authorities say 20 people were killed when a small plane chartered by a Chinese oil company crashed in a remote part of South Sudan
January 29, 2025Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma.
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Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an "act of injustice" that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday in his
January 29, 2025
The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the bloc following their
January 29, 2025
An Italian navy ship has arrived in Albania with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters for processing of their asylum applications at special Albanian centers
January 28, 2025
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January 29, 2025
U.S.-funded aid programs worldwide have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented Trump administration freeze on foreign assistance brings their work to a sudden halt
January 28, 2025
Refugees, surrendering Congolese soldiers and stranded truckers thronged the Rwandan border on Tuesday, hoping to reach safety after rebels captured the
January 28, 2025
Congolese security forces have tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma after entering eastern Congo’s largest city
January 28, 2025
The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan troops and M23 rebel forces in
January 28, 2025
Rebels seized the airport of east Congo's largest city Goma on Tuesday, potentially cutting off the main route for aid to
January 28, 2025
Violence erupts in mineral-rich DR Congo as rebels move into key city. Here’s what we know
January 28, 2025
The Trump administration's freeze on U.S. foreign aid globally has included a stop-work order to a program run by aid group Action Against Hunger helping severely
January 28, 2025
After three years on the run from the Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency in eastern Congo, on Sunday, with the rebels fighting their way into Goma's city outskirts,
January 28, 2025
Bodies are lying on the streets
January 28, 2025
China has prohibited imports of sheep, goat, poultry and even-toed ungulates from African, Asian and European countries due to outbreaks of livestock diseases such as sheep pox,
January 27, 2025Rioters stormed embassies and started fires in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Tuesday, drawing tear gas from police, in an
January 28, 2025
The crew of the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia have abandoned the container ship in the Red Sea after it caught fire on Tuesday, two maritime sources said, adding the cause
January 28, 2025Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebel group has gained control of the airport in the eastern city of Goma, diplomatic and security sources told Reuters.
January 28, 2025The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in
January 28, 2025
‘Things are really changing for them’: Why explorer known as ‘Indiana Jones for girls’ is walking across Saudi Arabia
January 28, 2025
Dead bodies were scattered in the streets of Goma and hospitals were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, a day after Rwanda-backed rebels
January 28, 2025Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said, taking the number of South African
January 28, 2025
Residents of eastern Congo's largest city of Goma greeted the arrival of Rwanda-backed rebels with trepidation on Monday, some staying indoors and others coming out to cheer in what
January 27, 2025
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says his office will be seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region, which has seen reported ethnic cleansing by paramilitary forces that have been fighting government forces for 19 months
January 28, 2025
The U.S.
January 27, 2025
Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo's largest city Goma on Monday,
January 27, 2025
Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma are fleeing after Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured the regional hub from Congolese forces
January 27, 2025
At least 22 soldiers have been killed and several wounded in Nigeria's northeast after insurgents deployed improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers to ward off attacks by the
January 27, 2025Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in
January 27, 2025
South Sudan has lifted a nationwide curfew imposed more than 10 days ago after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese people by the army
January 27, 2025
Goldman Sachs on Monday tapped veteran banker Stefan Duffner to lead the investment bank's activism and shareholder advisory work in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at a
January 27, 2025
In 2018, Corneille Nangaa orchestrated the heavily criticised vote that handed President Felix Tshisekedi power.
January 27, 2025
After a week of whirlwind gains for the Sudanese army and allies in the capital Khartoum, leaders hailed a turning point in the civil war, speaking to reporters
January 27, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza have passed through checkpoints in a central zone of the enclave where scanners check for
January 27, 2025
Cameroon-born designer Imane Ayissi fused sumptuous satin and taffeta with ancestral African crafts in a couture collection that celebrated heritage while embracing modernity
January 27, 2025
Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across east Africa over the last two months, the global police body Interpol said
January 27, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebels claim they have captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, as the United Nations describe a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s government say the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.”
January 26, 2025
France expresses its solidarity regarding the Democratic Republic of Congo and condemns actions by Rwanda in the country, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.
January 27, 2025
The new era of unpredictability, marked by tariff threats and rising global tensions, is prompting emerging market investors to look for shelter in frontier markets
January 27, 2025
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January 27, 2025
President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza has fallen flat with both countries' governments and perplexed a congressional ally
January 26, 2025
Congolese rebels said on Sunday they had taken Goma, the biggest city in the east of the mineral-rich country, after a lightning advance that has forced
January 26, 2025
Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to
January 26, 2025
Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan
January 26, 2025
Sierra Leone's information ministry said on Sunday it was investigating media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level
January 26, 2025
Airstrike kills at least 70 seeking care at last functioning hospital in North Darfur capital as Sudan’s civil war rages
January 26, 2025
Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 20 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, after attacking an army base in a remote town in
January 26, 2025United Nations and army officials say fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead
January 25, 2025
The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur
January 26, 2025
Benedict Cumberbatch explains how a near-death experience changed his outlook on life
January 24, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unilaterally released 153 war detainees
January 25, 2025
Congo has severed all diplomatic ties with Rwanda and South Africa said on Saturday that nine of its peacekeepers had been killed amid a surge in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels in
January 25, 2025
Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum
January 25, 2025
‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’
January 25, 2025
Global ratings agency Moody's revised Kenya's outlook to "positive" from "negative" on Friday, citing a potential ease in liquidity risks and improving debt affordability over time.
January 24, 2025
By David Lewis, Stephanie van den Berg and Reade Levinson NAIROBI/THE HAGUE - One of Europe's most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level
January 24, 2025
The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said on Friday, in what would be a major victory in
January 24, 2025
The military governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has died from gunshot wounds suffered on the front line during an offensive by M23 rebels, the army said on
January 24, 2025
The army says Nigerian soldiers have killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers over the past week in an operation targeting a decades-long insurgency by Islamic militants in the northeast and attacks by various armed groups in the northwest
January 24, 2025Six people injured in mid-air jolt that forced DC-bound United plane to make emergency landing in Nigeria
January 24, 2025A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises that were swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives in floods this month caused by a tropical cyclone
January 24, 2025More than 100 dead dolphins have been found on the coast of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, with officials yet to establish what caused their deaths.
January 24, 2025
Two U.S. lawmakers will keep trying to block arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, having determined that the UAE is providing weapons to the paramilitary
January 24, 2025
The Israeli military said on Friday that it remained deployed in southern Lebanon while maintaining the terms of the ceasefire deal.
January 24, 2025
Authorities say the governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained in fighting on the front line as M23 rebels close in on Goma
January 24, 2025
Officials say Egypt and a consortium made up of energy companies Total of France and Italy’s Eni will sign a key agreement next month to transport natural gas from an undersea deposit inside Cypriot waters to Egypt, where it will be liquefied and processed for export
January 24, 2025
Ethiopian forces and Amhara militiamen have both in recent months killed dozens of civilians, caught in a conflict plaguing the country's second-largest
January 24, 2025
When a 25-year-old government worker was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border to eastern Congo, he knew the risks of resisting corruption
January 24, 2025
The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather
January 24, 2025
Maersk will continue to divert vessels away from the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea and toward the southern tip of Africa despite Yemen's Houthis announcing they will curb their
January 24, 2025
A federal court in Nigeria has declared the Islamist Lakurawa group a terrorist organisation, a designation that allows the military to use maximum force against a
January 24, 2025More than 100 baby tortoises, most of them dead, have been returned to Tanzania from Thailand as evidence in a case against a wildlife smuggling network
January 24, 2025Fears that the world’s biggest iceberg could hit island in the South Atlantic
January 23, 2025
Late at night in a Cairo public hospital, a young doctor treating a patient in severe pain found the CT scanner was broken, so relying on his clinical judgment alone,
January 24, 2025
The U.S. plan to withdraw from the World Health Organization will squeeze Africa's health initiatives, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, calling
January 23, 2025
Panic is spreading in Goma in eastern Congo as M23 rebels encircle the city, battling Congo’s army
January 23, 2025
Haiti's government has invested more than $3.8 million to welcome Colombia's president
January 23, 2025
Nigeria needs to double economic growth within the next year or two from an annualized rate of 3.5% in the third quarter to lift its population out of
January 23, 2025
At least 20 fishermen have been killed in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno after Boko Haram insurgents attacked their village, fishermen and local security officers said on
January 23, 2025Botswana President Duma Boko said on Thursday that the West had every reason to play a role in Africa as other global powers like China exert an influence on the
January 23, 2025
The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Thursday accused each other of attacking the Khartoum refinery in Al-Jaili.
January 23, 2025
Top diamond producer Botswana's new President Duma Boko said on Thursday that he hoped to clinch a long-delayed sales pact with industry giant De
January 23, 2025
Twenty-five victims' families and survivors of apartheid-era political crimes have sued South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for what
January 23, 2025Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,
January 23, 2025
How African designers are making their mark on global fashion
January 23, 2025
Gabon's council of ministers said late on Wednesday that presidential elections would be held on April 12, 2025, marking an end to the military rule that began with a coup on
January 23, 2025The South African Reserve Bank will trim its repo rate next week by a quarter of a percentage point to 7.50% and repeat that in March, but then delay its final
January 23, 2025
Yemen’s Houthis free crew of Red Sea cargo ship after 14 months in captivity
January 22, 2025
Malian singer Rokia Traore, arrested in Rome last year over an international child custody dispute and later handed over to Belgium, will be released from a Belgian prison on
January 22, 2025
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that he was not worried about the country's relationship with the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
January 22, 2025
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than a century later
January 22, 2025
The M23 rebel group is advancing toward eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma
January 22, 2025
The M23 rebel group in Democratic Republic of Congo has seized the eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for the provincial capital Goma, a local
January 21, 2025
The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist
January 22, 2025
More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs
January 22, 2025
A joint force of 5,000 troops from military-led neighbours Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali will soon deploy in their troubled central Sahel region, Niger's defence chief said on state
January 22, 2025
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving
January 21, 2025
A plane carrying Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro, who was kidnapped in North Africa on Jan. 17, was expected to land in Algeria's Boufarik air base, Algerian state media
January 21, 2025
A rebel group in Mali says it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week
January 21, 2025Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, as a
January 21, 2025
Operations at a Red Sea port in Yemen used for aid imports have fallen to about a quarter of its capacity, a UN official said on Tuesday, adding it was not certain that a Gaza
January 21, 2025
Italy has released a senior member of Libya's judicial police who it had arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes accusations, an interior
January 21, 2025Italian state-run RAI says a court in Turin has freed a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court
January 21, 20252011 Africa and Middle East Unrest Fast Facts
July 27, 2013Ghana President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday appointed a former national security chief as envoy to a new alliance formed by Niger, Mali and Burkina
January 21, 2025
The new stretch of the Suez Canal near Egypt's Little Bitter Lake will be operational in the first quarter of this year, the chairman of the canal authority Osama Rabie said on
January 21, 2025
Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend have been released in Niger
January 21, 2025An investigating magistrate has been appointed in Belgium after Democratic Republic of the Congo in December filed criminal complaints accusing Apple subsidiaries of using
January 20, 2025
The death toll from a weekend fuel truck blast in Nigeria has reached 98 after more bodies were recovered from the wreckage on Monday, the head of the regional
January 20, 2025Nigeria plans to rebase its gross domestic product and inflation data by the end of the month to capture changes in certain sectors of the economy and to reflect current consumption
January 20, 2025
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where dozens of miners died and 246 were rescued last week
January 20, 2025
South Sudan police said on Monday that 16 Sudanese nationals were killed in riots last week over the alleged killings of South Sudanese people in Sudan's El Gezira region.
January 20, 2025Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease
January 20, 2025
A suspected gang leader known as "Tiger" escaped with the help of South African police after being pulled from an illegal gold mine last week where at least 78
January 20, 2025
Ghana's military says that soldiers have killed at least seven people at a gold mine
January 20, 2025Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal with Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-British military
January 20, 2025
Solar-charging backpacks are helping children to read after dark
January 20, 2025A Ghanaian small-scale miners' association on Sunday said soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti mine on
January 19, 2025
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response agency said
January 19, 2025
Four Moroccan truck drivers went missing on Saturday as they crossed the restive border area between Burkina Faso and Niger, according to a source from the
January 19, 2025About 200 aid delivery trucks, including 20 carrying fuel, began arriving on Sunday at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing ahead of entry into the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian
January 19, 2025
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald Trump’s first presidency and saw China fill the vacuum
January 19, 2025
At least 70 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria on Saturday when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded, the
January 18, 2025Kenya sent more than 200 police officers to Haiti on Saturday, providing backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where rampant gang violence has
January 18, 2025
Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence
January 18, 2025Across Africa, Russia is growing in influence. What might Moscow want?
January 18, 2025
Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials
January 18, 2025
Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a local newspaper, a contentious
January 18, 2025
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem congratulated Palestinians on Saturday over the Gaza ceasefire deal, saying in a speech that it proved the "persistence
January 18, 2025
Mozambique President Daniel Chapo on Friday appointed Carla Louveira as finance minister and Estevão Pale as mineral resources and energy minister.
January 17, 2025
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund on Friday approved the second review of Ethiopia's current financing program, the fund said, paving the way for a
January 17, 2025
Brazil's government announced on Friday Nigeria's acceptance as a partner country in the multinational bloc of nations known as BRICS.
January 17, 2025Officials say more than 40 Pakistanis are feared to have drowned in the capsizing of a migrant boat off West Africa’s Atlantic coastline
January 17, 2025
A former Mozambique finance minister was sentenced on Friday to 8-1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of participating in a fraud involving $2 billion in
January 17, 2025A federal court in New York has sentenced Mozambique’s former finance minister to another two-and-a-half years behind bars for his role in the “tuna bond” corruption scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the African nation
January 17, 2025
Botswana's economy is expected to grow 3% to 4% in 2025 after a contraction last year, a senior government official said at a budget workshop on Friday, as the
January 17, 2025
Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a Gaza ceasefire deal
January 17, 2025
South Sudan's police imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m.
January 17, 2025
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging for gold
January 17, 2025
South Sudanese authorities imposed a countrywide dusk-to-dawn curfew after a night of violence during which shops were looted in the capital
January 17, 2025North Africa's largest economy and second-largest natural gas producer has stepped up the production and export of several highly energy-intensive
January 17, 2025
When vigilantes in northwestern Nigeria's Tungar Kara town prepared to go after an armed gang in a nearby forest last Saturday, residents cheered and prayed for their
January 17, 2025Egypt’s chief diplomat is calling on Israel and Hamas to implement a Gaza ceasefire plan “without any delay.”
January 16, 2025
Spain’s foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country
January 17, 2025South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities attempted to force them to surrender during a monthslong standoff
January 17, 2025
Egypt's current account deficit more than doubled to $5.9 billion in July-September 2024, compared with $2.8 billion in the year-ago quarter, as Suez Canal revenues remain depressed,
January 16, 2025
The flagship U.S. aid program on HIV/AIDS is in jeopardy, a senior Republican warned on Thursday, after U.S. officials said four nurses in
January 16, 2025The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan's leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war
January 16, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan’s military in a devastating war that is spreading famine in that country
January 16, 2025
Nigeria's military says it has killed 76 Islamic militants in the country’s northeast during operations conducted in various parts of Borno state
January 16, 2025South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people
January 16, 2025
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87
January 16, 2025
Terrorist Attacks by Vehicle Fast Facts
May 03, 2017U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com opened on Thursday a walk-in centre in South Africa that it says will help its independent sellers attract more customers and
January 16, 2025
Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the
January 16, 2025
Nigerian troops have killed 76 Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militants in the country's northeastern Borno state in recent weeks, a
January 16, 2025
As many as 50 migrants, many of them Pakistanis, may have drowned in the latest deadly wreck involving people trying to make the crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands,
January 16, 2025For people without access to banks, community savings groups are a lifeline. New research suggests they’re good stewards of donors’ money, too.
January 16, 2025
Global unemployment remained steady last year at an historical low of 5%, where it is set to stay in 2025, the International Labour Organization said in a report on Thursday.
January 16, 2025
South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies of those who died
January 15, 2025
Digicel, one of Haiti's main internet providers, has partially restored its network after a fire near the capital caused a series of outages that affected services across the
January 15, 2025CNN's Larry Madowo speaks with Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou about how his role in "Amistad" inspired his mission to reconnect the Black diaspora with their African heritage.
January 15, 2025
At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water
January 15, 2025
Video released by a human rights group in South Africa appears to show emaciated miners and dead bodies wrapped in plastic in an abandoned mine in the country’s northwest region, although CNN is not able to independently verify the video. South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy says a rescue operation plan is now underway at the mine where more than 100 people are suspected dead.
January 14, 2025
President Emmanuel Macron and key members of the government will meet in the coming days to decide how to respond to what Paris deems as growing hostility from Algeria,
January 15, 2025
Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted
January 15, 2025
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from underground
January 15, 2025
Henk Lategan and Yazeed Al-Rajhi will duel in the Saudi sand for their first Dakar Rally title after swapping the lead for a second straight day
January 15, 2025
A Kenyan cabinet minister said his son's abduction during last year's anti-government protests was carried out by the National Intelligence Service
January 15, 2025
The Libyan state agency mandated to oversee government performance has called for suspension of public sector appointments and contracts due to an excessive wage bill.
January 15, 2025Daniel Chapo of Mozambique's long-ruling Frelimo party was sworn in as president on Wednesday at a sparsely attended ceremony, as the death toll
January 15, 2025
Britain will give U.S.
January 15, 2025
Nigeria's inflation rate rose for the fourth straight month in December, advancing to 34.80% in annual terms from 34.60% in November, data from the statistics agency showed on
January 15, 2025
A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of gold bars
January 15, 2025
The ruling party in the Comoros won decisively in parliamentary elections this week, the electoral commission said, but opposition parties either boycotted the vote or rejected the
January 15, 2025
Djimon Hounsou on battling ‘systemic racism,’ and reconnecting Black people to their African roots
January 15, 2025
South Africa has temporarily closed a key border crossing with Botswana due to heavy rainfall and flooding, the country's border authority said.
January 15, 2025A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of
January 15, 2025
The World Health Organization says an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania
January 15, 2025Rescuers try to free men trapped in South African gold mine with scores reported dead
January 14, 2025
The U.N.
January 14, 2025Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings
January 14, 2025South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of
January 14, 2025
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months
January 14, 2025
At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa two months after a police raid, a group working on behalf of the miners said on
January 13, 2025The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned what it called "individual violations" in Sudan's El Gezira in recent days after rights groups blamed the army and its allies for
January 14, 2025Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party wants to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term in office by two years until 2030, a party spokesman said on Tuesday.
January 14, 2025
Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of harmful chemicals, explosives and drugs
January 14, 2025More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security
January 14, 2025
Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual voodoo festival, as spectators learn about the
January 14, 2025
A prominent opposition figure in Uganda will stand trial on the serious charge of treachery, a military court ruled Tuesday, escalating the legal trouble Kizza Besigye faces ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026
January 14, 2025
The U.S.
January 13, 2025A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out
January 13, 2025
Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency after reporting its second case of mpox in less than four days
January 13, 2025Ugandan military prosecutors on Monday added a charge of "treachery" - which carries the death penalty - to the list of violations of military law they say were committed by a
January 13, 2025
Hamas said on Monday that talks over some core issues for a ceasefire deal in Gaza have made progress, an official in the Palestinian group told Reuters.
January 13, 2025
Suspected Islamist militants killed 40 farmers in an attack on the Dumba community in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State on Sunday, a senior state official said
January 13, 2025While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
January 13, 2025
A prominent Tanzanian activist has been released after being "kidnapped" on Sunday by three armed men on the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi, her husband said, accusing
January 13, 2025
A Nigerian official says at least 40 farmers were killed by militants in a weekend attack in northeastern Borno state
January 13, 2025Civilians and soldiers celebrated in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan's El Gezira state, after it was recaptured by the Sudanese army from the
January 13, 2025
Britain and Mauritius said on Monday there had been good progress in talks to finalise a deal over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, including a U.S.-British military base, with
January 13, 2025Nigeria's air force said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties during a weekend air strike that targeted armed gangs in the northwest, the latest military
January 13, 2025A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat
January 12, 2025
The Congolese army says several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been recaptured by government forces
January 13, 2025
An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said.
January 12, 2025Zambia's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sanctioned Standard Chartered for mis-selling a Chinese property company's bonds to one of the
January 11, 2025
Gunmen have kidnapped an Austrian woman in Niger's Agadez city
January 12, 2025The French territory of Mayotte is on red alert again with another cyclone heading toward the islands off Africa that were devastated by their worst storm in nearly a century last month
January 12, 2025
Voters in Comoros were heading to the polls on Sunday to elect the Indian Ocean archipelago's 33-seat parliament, a year after the re-election of President Azali
January 12, 2025
Chad's ruling party won two-thirds of the seats in the legislative election which was boycotted by many in the opposition last month, provisional results showed on Sunday,
January 12, 2025
The French territory of Mayotte is on red alert again with another cyclone heading toward the islands off Africa that were devastated by their worst storm in nearly a century last month
January 11, 2025
Sudanese officials says the military and its allies had taken back the strategic city of Wad Medani more than a year after the Rapid Support Forces seized it
January 11, 2025
Sudan's army said on Saturday it had entered the central city of Wad Madani and was pushing out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a step which if completed
January 11, 2025
Somalia's president visited Ethiopia on Saturday, his office said, the strongest sign yet of improving relations between the two neighbours after a year of tensions over Addis
January 11, 2025
Authorities will put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Overseas Minister Manuel Valls said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian Ocean
January 11, 2025
The United States will return $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates
January 10, 2025Benin's military says that militants inflicted heavy losses on the country's armed forces during an attack this week on a fortified military post in the north
January 10, 2025An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a major oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, according private security firm Ambrey
January 10, 2025
Ethiopia launched a securities exchange on Friday, in what officials touted as a milestone in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's drive to open up the country's
January 10, 2025
Nigeria's anti-graft agency has arrested 105 people, including four Chinese nationals, for suspected involvement in an internet fraud scheme targeting hotels in
January 10, 2025
Nigeria and the United States signed an agreement on Friday to repatriate about $52.88 million in assets forfeited by former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-
January 10, 2025Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here?
January 10, 2025
Inhabitants of the cyclone-ravaged French overseas territory of Mayotte were advised on Friday to ensure they could shelter in sturdy buildings and had food and water over the
January 10, 2025
Medical aid agency MSF said on Friday it has been forced to suspend its activities at one of the few remaining hospitals in southern Khartoum due to repeated attacks, cutting
January 10, 2025
A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army's war effort, finance
January 10, 2025Kenyan government critics mysteriously disappeared. They came back silenced
January 09, 2025
Jane Goodall Fast Facts
April 14, 2013Benin's armed forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack on one of their most well-equipped positions in the north, where troops are trying to curb cross-border
January 09, 2025Ghana's new government could seek extra funding from the International Monetary Fund during its current, three-year programme with the lender in order to
January 09, 2025
NATO needs a stronger focus on the south and Africa, Italy's prime minister told a news conference on Thursday, saying Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya after the
January 09, 2025
Nigeria and China plan to deepen cooperation in areas such as clean energy, defence and finance, with China pledging support for Nigeria's issuance
January 09, 2025
(An alert and story on the date of Gabon's presidential election have been withdrawn. They were published in error. The interim president did not announce an election date in his speech on Thursday.)
January 09, 2025
Baby born at sea on migrant dinghy en route to Spain
January 09, 2025
A baby girl, who was born on a packed migrant dinghy headed for Spain's Lanzarote island in the Canaries, was being treated in hospital along with
January 09, 2025
A foiled attack on Chad's presidential compound overnight was carried out by a group of two dozen armed "ill-intentioned individuals" who were neutralised by
January 09, 2025
How Nigeria’s biggest city became the world’s hottest winter party destination
January 09, 2025
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday he would like to continue serving his country as president but emphasised that his party had not yet made a formal decision
January 09, 2025
Mozambique’s main opposition leader has returned from self-imposed exile as security forces fired tear gas at hundreds of his supporters who gathered near the main international airport to welcome him home
January 09, 2025
Oil producer Saudi Aramco and Algeria's Sonatrach lowered January's official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by between 1.6% and 6% from December because of
January 09, 2025
Mozambique opposition leader Venancio Mondlane returned from self-exile on Thursday, defiantly claiming to have won a hotly contested October
January 09, 2025
State media in Chad say an attack on the presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded
January 09, 2025
A photo of a baby born at sea during a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by migrants from Africa has been made public by Spain’s maritime rescue service
January 08, 2025
Residents in the capital of the African nation of Chad say multiple gunshots have been heard near the presidential palace
January 08, 2025
Chad's government said security forces had foiled an attempt to destabilise the country on Wednesday evening, after bursts of gunfire rang out near the
January 08, 2025Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fraudulently exported at least 150 metric tons of coltan to Rwanda last year, leading to the largest contamination of the
January 08, 2025A baby boy was born on a migrant dinghy en route to Spain's Canary Islands this week, Spain's rescue service said on Wednesday, publishing a photograph of the newborn, its mother
January 08, 2025
The United States determined on Tuesday that members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias
January 07, 2025
Azerbaijan has lodged a protest with Eritrea over the detention of three Azerbaijani-flagged vessels and their crews that have been held since November 2024, Azerbaijani Foreign
January 08, 2025Archaeologists have uncovered intact portions of the foundation wall of pharaonic Queen Hatshepsut's valley temple in Luxor and the nearby tomb of Queen Teti Sheri, grandmother of
January 08, 2025
Libya's eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, three lawmakers said, a measure aimed at reunifying the oil-
January 08, 2025
Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labor and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God
January 08, 2025
The Nigerian military says six soldiers and 34 Islamic extremists have died in a clash in the northeastern Borno state
January 08, 2025Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years
January 08, 2025
Egyptian inflation is expected to have eased to 24.2% in December as food prices continued to cool, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
January 08, 2025
The Nigerian military said on Wednesday its troops had killed 34 Islamist militants in a gun battle in northeastern Borno state and six soldiers had also died.
January 08, 2025Ghana's consumer inflation rose for a fourth month in a row in December, to 23.8% year on year from 23.0% in November, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
January 08, 2025
South African manufacturing activity fell for the second month in a row in December, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed, as demand declined.
January 08, 2025
Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence
January 07, 2025Tanzania's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at 6% on Wednesday, holding it steady for a third consecutive policy meeting, with an aim of
January 08, 2025Ireland joins genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration says it has determined Sudan's Rapid Support Force rebel group and proxies are committing genocide in the country's civil war
January 07, 2025
Walt Disney has named Tony Chambers president of Disney in Europe, Middle East and Africa, as part of a restructuring of its entertainment businesses in the region, the company said
January 07, 2025
US determines Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group committed genocide in country’s civil war
January 07, 2025
John Mahama was sworn in on Tuesday as Ghana’s president for the third time, as the country faces its worst economic crisis in a generation
January 07, 2025Mauritius has issued an arrest order for its former finance minister, Renganaden Padayachy, in relation to a probe into alleged embezzlement, a police notice in local newspapers
January 07, 2025
Macron’s claim that Africans failed to say ‘thank you’ for French military aid sparks outrage
January 07, 2025
Senegalese and Chadian leaders say the ousting of French troops from their territories was their sovereign decision, rejecting remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron that suggested otherwise
January 07, 2025
John Dramani Mahama was sworn in for a second term as Ghana's president on Tuesday at a ceremony in the capital Accra, pledging to overcome public
January 07, 2025
Gunmen kidnapped at least 46 people, including women and children, in a raid on Gana town in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, residents and a local traditional leader said on
January 07, 2025This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests
January 07, 2025
Kenya's economic growth slowed in the third quarter of 2024 from the same period a year earlier due to underperformance in most sectors of the economy, the statistics office said
January 07, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas has approved a list of 34 hostages presented by Israel to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal, a group official told Reuters on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
The United States accused Russia at the United Nations on Monday of funding the two warring parties in Sudan, an apparent step up from Washington's
January 07, 2025
A suspected bomb explosion killed at least two people and injured two others at a school near Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Monday, police said.
January 06, 2025The United Nations' Yemen mediator arrived in Yemen's capital on Monday as part of a bid to subdue heightened tensions in his first visit in almost two years, a spokesperson
January 06, 2025
France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was still waiting for Africa's Sahel states to thank Paris for stopping them falling into the hands of militants and he dismissed
January 06, 2025
Congo will execute more than 170 people convicted of armed robbery, official says
January 05, 2025
Kenya's private sector activity expanded very slightly in December, with growth slowing a little from a month earlier but remaining supported by increased customer sales, a survey
January 06, 2025
Boy, 7, found alive in ‘lion-infested’ Zimbabwe game park after going missing for five days
January 06, 2025Nineteen-year-old Charles Owino was killed by a gunshot to the head during a day of anti-government protests near Nairobi in July, according to an autopsy
January 06, 2025
The head of Uganda's military, who is also the son of longstanding President Yoweri Museveni, said he wanted to behead the country's most prominent opposition leader.
January 06, 2025
China's top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Sunday, maintaining a 35-year-long tradition, to quietly advance Beijing's already sizeable influence
January 06, 2025
Operating conditions in Egypt's non-oil private sector deteriorated in December, with output and new orders falling at the sharpest rates in eight months amid rising cost pressures,
January 06, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic eastern town near the provincial capital Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, local politicians said on Sunday.
January 05, 2025
Nine civilians including women and children were killed in an attack on a vehicle in Mali's Segou region last week, a civil society group and a rebel coalition said late on Saturday,
January 05, 2025
Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”
January 05, 2025
Gunmen from Nigeria have killed at least five Cameroonian soldiers and wounded several others in the village of Bakinjaw on Cameroon's border with Nigeria
January 04, 2025Huge fire at Ghanaian clothing market destroys hundreds of stalls
January 03, 2025
Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya
January 03, 2025Ghana's parliament has passed a provisional budget that allows the government to spend 68.1 billion Ghanaian cedis ($4.65 billion) through March, the
January 03, 2025
Ethiopia's defence minister travelled to Somalia on Thursday, a senior official in Mogadishu said, the first bilateral visit since relations nosedived a year ago over an Ethiopian
January 02, 2025Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave's
January 02, 2025
Police officer arrested after allegedly releasing prisoners to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Zambia
January 02, 2025
Dozens die in shipwrecks off Tunisia as 2025 is already deadly for migrants in Mediterranean
January 02, 2025Tunisia's coast guard has recovered the bodies of 27 African migrants after two boats they were attempting to cross the Mediterranean in sank off the coast, the national guard said
January 02, 2025Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet smashes her own 5,000m women’s world record
January 02, 2025
The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a military base in Somalia's northeastern region of Puntland a day earlier, the group posted on
January 01, 2025Yemen's Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the country would continue to defend itself after several U.S. strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday.
December 31, 2024
Seven migrants were rescued, but at least 20 are missing after their boat sank en route to Italy from Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said on Wednesday.
January 01, 2025A Congolese military tribunal has sentenced 13 soldiers to death on charges including murder, looting, and cowardice in what military
January 01, 202511 architecture projects set to shape the world in 2025
January 01, 2025
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Tuesday that French forces would withdraw from the West African nation, continuing the former colonial power's military exit from
December 31, 2024
Jimmy Carter helped expand democracy around the world long after he left the White House
December 31, 2024
Spike in Russian flights from Syria to Libyan desert base as Moscow eyes new Mediterranean hub
December 31, 2024
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago
December 31, 2024Security forces in Somalia repulsed an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers on a military base in the northeastern region of Puntland on Tuesday, the local state
December 31, 2024People in Zimbabwe are shunning traditional grocery stores to do their shopping at informal and illegal markets that pop up at night to avoid police raids
December 31, 2024
Kenya's consumer price inflation
At least 71 people died in Ethiopia when a truck packed with passengers plunged into a river, according to the spokesperson for the southern Sidama regional government and a
December 30, 2024
An opposition politician and several other protesters have been arrested in Kenya during street demonstrations calling for an end to alleged abductions, that have recently targeted young government critics
December 30, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter spent decades waging war against an ancient parasite
December 30, 2024
Kenyan lawmaker among dozens arrested during anti-abduction protests
December 30, 2024
New French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Monday that power will be restored to all households on the storm-ravaged Mayotte archipelago by the end of January, while the
December 30, 2024
Police in Kenya's capital Nairobi fired teargas to try to disperse protesters demonstrating on Monday against what they say is a wave of unexplained abductions of government
December 30, 2024
At least 23 Congolese soldiers are facing the death penalty or 10 to 20 years in prison following their arraignment for alleged rape, desertion and other crimes amid the fighting in the country’s conflict-battered east
December 30, 2024Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections in 2024, and voters' message was often: “You’re fired.”
December 30, 2024
A hospital in southern Ethiopia says at least 66 people have died after a truck plunged into a river
December 30, 2024A gas explosion killed three police officers as maintenance work was being performed at Egypt's police academy in Cairo on Sunday night, the country's interior ministry said in a
December 29, 2024Shark attack at Egyptian Red Sea resort kills one foreigner, injures another
December 29, 2024Kenya’s president promises to stop abductions following wave of disappearances
December 28, 2024
Chadians were voting on Sunday in a parliamentary election boycotted by the opposition that will likely consolidate President Mahamat Idriss Deby's power and complete the oil-
December 29, 2024
More illnesses and deaths reported in Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak involving malaria
December 27, 2024
The United Nations Security Council authorized an African Union stabilisation and support mission in Somalia - known as AUSSOM - on Friday that will replace a larger AU anti-
December 27, 2024Nigeria's military has acknowledged that an airstrike targeting a Lakurawa group hideout in the northwestern state of Sokoto had killed 10 civilians due to secondary explosions, army
December 27, 2024More than 2,000 Mozambican families have sought refuge in Malawi this week, Malawian authorities said, as dozens of people were reported killed in spreading unrest over a
December 27, 2024
‘A whole different wiring system’: the extreme athletes who pushed limits in 2024 – and why they might not be crazy after all
December 27, 2024
The Malian authorities have announced that almost 70 migrants, including 25 Malians, died when their boat sank last week while they were trying to reach Europe
December 27, 2024At least 69 people died after a boat headed from West Africa to the Canary Islands capsized off Morocco on Dec.
December 27, 2024The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has raised concerns over the rising number of government critics who were apparently abducted, as four people were reported missing over the weekend
December 27, 2024Why Nefertiti still inspires, 3,300 years after she reigned
December 27, 2024
Mozambique’s police chief says at least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in the capital of Maputo on Christmas Day after a rebellion, as widespread post-election riots and violence are roiling the country
December 26, 2024At least 10 people were killed and several wounded when a Nigerian military fighter jet pursuing bandits in two villages mistakenly bombed civilians in the northwestern state of
December 26, 2024A Spanish migration rights group says more than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by sea
December 26, 2024
A prison riot in Mozambique's capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country's police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on
December 25, 2024
A survivor of the worst gang attack on Haitian journalists in recent memory describes seeing colleagues cut down by bullets and reporters with head and chest wounds going without help
December 26, 2024
Violence that engulfed Mozambique after the country’s highest court confirmed ruling party presidential candidate Daniel Chapo as the winner of disputed Oct. 9 elections has killed at least 21 people, including two police officers
December 24, 2024
Libya's eastern-based government said in a statement on Wednesday that it had agreed on a proposal to end fuel subsidies and would prepare a mechanism to implement the agreement.
December 25, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo has freed 14 of the 17 Chinese men arrested on suspicion of running an illegal gold mine in the country, authorities said late on Tuesday.
December 25, 2024Israel's military intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory, the army said.
December 25, 2024French officials raised the death toll in Mayotte to 39 from 35, about 10 days after the islands were battered by a devastating cyclone.
December 24, 2024
At least 21 people have been killed in unrest after Mozambique's top court on Monday confirmed long-ruling party Frelimo's victory in the election, the country's
December 24, 2024
Morocco aims to grant women more rights over child custody and guardianship as well as a veto over polygamous marriage, in the first review of its family code in
December 24, 2024Two arrested in Egypt after attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea
December 24, 2024
Famine is reported to be spreading in Sudan amid relentless war between the military and a notorious paramilitary group that devastated the country and created the world’s largest displacement crisis
December 24, 2024
Famine in Sudan has expanded to five areas and will likely
December 24, 2024
It’s a simple but brutal equation: The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are
December 24, 2024
The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s expected to show famine spreading across the country, a step
December 24, 2024
The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen.
December 23, 2024Mozambique's top court on Monday confirmed the victory of ruling party Frelimo in the October election, which has sparked massive protests by
December 23, 2024
Omar al-Bashir Fast Facts
December 10, 2012France unveiled a new government on Monday composed of former ministers and senior civil servants that Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will
December 23, 2024
Egypt will contribute troops to an African Union Somalia peacekeeping mission, its foreign minister said on Monday, as ties between the two countries grow closer amid tensions with
December 23, 2024
In Nigeria, the first part of a $1 billion project to clean up Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, where there have been thousands of oil spills, was a “total failure.”
December 23, 2024The United Nations has raised the death toll of a recent massacre in which dozens of older people and Vodou religious leaders were killed by a gang in Haiti
December 23, 2024France held a national day of mourning for Mayotte, its Indian Ocean territory devastated by a violent cyclone on Dec. 14, beginning in the
December 23, 2024
France marked a day of mourning Monday for victims of Cyclone Chido, which devastated its poorest territory, Mayotte, over a week ago
December 23, 2024
Some World Bank staff have criticised an assessment of Ethiopia's finances conducted with the International Monetary Fund, questioning whether the analysis that
December 23, 2024
Senegal's local toymakers are experiencing a boom in demand ahead of Christmas, with sellers hoping to win market share with high-quality products that reflect the country’s culture and
December 23, 2024
No sooner had the global economy started to put the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it than a whole new set of challenges opened up for 2025.
December 23, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized back control of a key logistical base in North Darfur on Sunday, the paramilitary group said, a day after it was taken by rival forces
December 22, 2024
The US still has not had a woman leader – here are the countries that have
December 22, 2024
Cyclone Chido not only ravaged Mayotte’s fragile infrastructure but also laid bare deep-seated tensions between the island’s residents and its large migrant population
December 22, 2024
Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children
December 22, 2024
Facebook inflicted ‘lifelong trauma’ on Kenyan content moderators, campaigners say, as more than 140 are diagnosed with PTSD
December 22, 2024
Mozambique's death toll from Cyclone Chido has risen to 94, news agency AFP said on Sunday, citing the country's disaster management agency.
December 22, 2024
Nigerian police say the death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events has increased from 13 to 32
December 22, 2024
Crowd crushes at two charity events in Nigeria kill at least 32 people
December 22, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron expressed full support on Saturday for Ethiopia's debt restructuring efforts, emphasising the need for a swift resolution "in the coming weeks"
December 21, 2024
Officials say 38 people are confirmed dead, and over 100 missing in Congo after an overloaded ferry — full of people returning home for Christmas — capsized
December 21, 2024Suspected jihadists killed more than 20 people in a string of attacks on villages in central Mali's insurgency-hit Mopti region on Friday, two local sources said.
December 21, 2024Authorities in Nigeria say At least 13 people, including four children, were killed in two separate stampedes in the country, as large crowds gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed at annual Christmas events
December 21, 2024A week after Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte, France’s poorest territory, the island remains in crisis
December 21, 2024
At least 13 people died in two incidents in Nigeria on Saturday as crowds, mostly women and children, scrambled for charity, police authorities
December 21, 2024Authorities in Nigeria say ten people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Christmas event
December 21, 2024The U.S. Department of State said on Friday that it is imposing visa restrictions on multiple individuals responsible for the ongoing conflict in South Sudan.
December 21, 2024Crowds in Mayotte have vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing
December 20, 2024
Two people have been arrested for allegedly plotting to harm Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema using witchcraft
December 20, 2024Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least 10,
December 20, 2024
Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew
December 20, 2024
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a new policy that will allow beneficiaries of land taken from white people under controversial land reforms to sell it and to be able to borrow from banks using it as collateral
December 20, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have said they will work with a planned new government to oversee territories they control,
December 20, 2024The United Nations Security Council voted to extend the mandate for a long-running U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic
December 20, 2024Angry residents of a Mayotte neighbourhood damaged by Cyclone Chido heckled French President Emmanuel Macron, who replied they would be in "deeper shit" without
December 20, 2024
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that three of its staff were killed in war-torn Sudan's Blue Nile state on Thursday after an aerial strike
December 20, 2024Macron tells cyclone-hit Mayotte islanders to be grateful they are French after facing jeers
December 20, 2024
The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government have declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks
December 20, 2024
Britain and Mauritius both want to finalise a treaty over the future of a U.S.-British military base in the Chagos Islands as quickly as possible, they said on Friday, after
December 20, 2024Greece has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who fell into the sea after their speedboat collided with a coastguard boat pursuing it off the island of Rhodes on Friday, the
December 20, 2024
More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur state since May, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support
December 20, 2024
The U.N.'s food agency says more than 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa
December 20, 2024
Rwanda has declared an end to the country's Marburg virus outbreak following the recovery of the last patient 42 days ago, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told a news conference on
December 20, 2024
People in storm-ravaged Mayotte implored French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday to do more to help as he toured the overseas
December 19, 2024
Crowd crush kills 35 children at funfair in Nigeria, police say
December 20, 2024
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has replaced the chief of staff of the armed forces and dozens of other senior military figures in one of the biggest shake-ups of its kind in
December 19, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Chido
December 19, 2024
U.S.
December 19, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced $200 million in humanitarian aid for conflict-torn Sudan during his likely final trip to the United Nations while in office
December 19, 2024
Early last Sunday, after a night spent working at a small Mayotte maternity ward as a vicious storm devastated the French islands, midwife Lucie Gerard
December 19, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration will provide U.S. lawmakers an assessment by Jan. 17 on the credibility of assurances by the United Arab Emirates that
December 19, 2024
A man in western Congo has died with hemorrhagic fever symptoms
December 19, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron met with anger from Mayotte residents, days after devastating cyclone
December 19, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan legislative bodies agreed at talks in Morocco on Thursday to work together with a United Nations mission
December 19, 2024
Four French nationals held in Burkina Faso for a year have been released following mediation from Morocco, France and Morocco said on
December 19, 2024
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of 20 people who appeared to have drowned after a shipwreck off the country’s Mediterranean coastline, near a popular point of departure for migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat
December 19, 2024Four French nationals detained for more than a year in Burkina Faso were released this week after negotiations between the two countries and Morocco
December 19, 2024Under a scorching sun in Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the farmers tending to their fields in the troubled eastern
December 19, 2024
Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte off the coast of Africa, survivors recalled the horror of a storm that caught many by surprise
December 18, 2024
At least 20 migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisian coast, marking second tragedy in a week
December 18, 2024Tunisia's coast guard has recovered the bodies of 20 migrants from Africa after the boat they were in sank off the coast, the national guard said on Wednesday, the second migrant
December 18, 2024Several children have died following a stampede during a school holiday fair in Nigeria
December 18, 2024The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years, according to officials
December 18, 2024
U.S.
December 18, 2024
A stampede at a religious event in Ibadan, the capital of Nigeria's southwest Oyo state, resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, Governor Seyi Makinde said on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024A woman who joined Namibia’s independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country votes in a presidential election
November 27, 2024
Residents of Mali's northern town of Tinzaouaten, caught in the crossfire of a fierce July battle between Tuareg rebels and the army backed by
November 27, 2024
France’s Mayotte cleans up after cyclone, total death toll still unknown
December 18, 2024The destruction wreaked by cyclone Chido on Mayotte can be seen across France's Indian Ocean archipelago.
December 18, 2024
Authorities in the French overseas territory of Mayotte could still confirm only 31 deaths on Wednesday from Cyclone Chido, more than four days after
December 18, 2024
The British government says it still plans to hand over a contested Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically important military base, to Mauritius
December 18, 2024
In Nigeria, roughly 85 million people do not have access to electricity
December 18, 2024
Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back
December 18, 2024International lawyers for the Democratic Republic of Congo welcomed Apple's decision to stop sourcing minerals from there due to worsening conflict, but said they
December 18, 2024
US transfers Guantanamo Bay detainees to Kenya and Malaysia
December 17, 2024
A river boat sank in western Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 22 people after the overcrowded upper deck collapsed, a local official told Reuters on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two separate cases challenging the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive pieces of anti-LGBT legislation, paving the way for the
December 18, 2024Helena Monteiro da Costa's father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century.
December 18, 2024
Mayotte was already struggling with overcrowding, illness and poverty before a devastating cyclone hit the French island territory at the
December 18, 2024
Ghana's President-elect John Dramani Mahama has named an anti-corruption team to gather information on suspected graft, his transition team said in a statement on Wednesday.
December 18, 2024
Mozambique's 2024 economic growth is likely to be revised down from a previous forecast of 4.3% due to post-election civil unrest and the impact of Cyclone Chido
December 18, 2024
Authorities in Mayotte struggled on Tuesday to stop hunger, disease and lawlessness from spreading in the French overseas territory after the weekend's
December 17, 2024
Kenya suffered a widespread power outage on Wednesday that affected most of the country, with electricity supply restored about six hours later, the nation's leading power utility
December 18, 2024
United Methodist News Service reports that a religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze
December 17, 2024
An overnight curfew goes into force Tuesday evening as Mayotte struggles to recover from Cyclone Chido, the strongest storm to hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago in 90 years
December 17, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in
December 17, 2024
Local officials and residents say an overcrowded boat capsized on a river in central Congo, killing at least 25 people, including children, and leaving dozens missing
December 17, 2024
Huge Israeli airstrikes killed extended families in homes in two parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza medics said, with Israel's military saying it
December 17, 2024
Tens of thousands of people could have died in Mayotte after a devastating cyclone and doctors are also bracing for a surge in disease, a dental surgeon at the islands' only hospital
December 17, 2024
An official says that the pirates who hijacked a Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew off the northeastern coast of Somalia last month are demanding $10 million in ransom
December 17, 2024France is rushing rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte after the island group off Africa was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century
December 16, 2024
South Africa's rand weakened against a stronger dollar on Tuesday as investors turn their attention to the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.
December 17, 2024
Brazilian digital bank Nubank said on Monday it has invested $150 million in Tyme Group, a Singapore-based digital bank backed by China's Tencent with 15 million
December 17, 2024
At least 34 people have been killed by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique since it made landfall there on Sunday, the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday, citing figures from the
December 17, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will take part in a summit of big Muslim countries in Egypt on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, the first visit by an
December 17, 2024
A Kenyan court has sentenced a man to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of the murder of gay rights activist Edwin Kiptoo nearly two years ago.
December 17, 2024
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto headed to Egypt on Tuesday to attend meetings of a group of eight major Muslim developing countries, known as the D-8 Organization for Economic
December 17, 2024
The top U.N. official in Libya has announced a new initiative to overcome a three-year deadlock and move the divided oil-rich North Africa nation toward a national election
December 16, 2024
‘It’s as if an atomic bomb fell on Mayotte’: Widespread destruction after 100-year cyclone pummels French territory
December 16, 2024
A Ugandan court has ordered the government to pay up to 10 million Ugandan shillings ($2,740) to each victim of Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo, the first senior
December 16, 2024
World Trade Organization members agreed on Monday to hold the next ministerial conference in Cameroon in early 2026, the global trade watchdog said in a statement.
December 16, 2024
Morocco plans to expand its airport capacity to 80 million passengers by 2030 from 38 million currently, Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said.
December 16, 2024
Cameroon's President Paul Biya warned on Monday of "disastrous consequences" for the countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa if urgent action is not
December 16, 2024
Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human
December 16, 2024
Emergency workers searched for survivors on Monday and battled to restore services in Mayotte, France's poorest overseas territory,
December 16, 2024
The housemate of an LGBTQ+ activist in Kenya has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was discovered in a metal box almost two years ago
December 16, 2024BP and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's international investments arm XRG said on Monday they have closed a deal for a new natural gas joint venture in Egypt, as ADNOC
December 16, 2024
Following are some facts about the French overseas territory of Mayotte, where Cyclone Chido devastated the poorest place in France.
December 15, 2024
South Africa's biggest e-commerce retailer, Takealot, has hired thousands of personal shoppers to help it penetrate townships and rural areas and fend off
December 16, 2024
The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands
December 15, 2024
The United Nations will convene a technical committee of Libyan experts in an attempt to resolve contentious issues and put the country on the path to long-awaited national elections, the
December 15, 2024
Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French
December 15, 2024
West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS has approved setting up a special court Sunday to try crimes committed in Gambia during its military dictatorship
December 15, 2024Suspected jihadists killed 39 civilians, including women and children, in two separate attacks in western Niger's conflict-torn borderlands in recent days, the defence ministry said
December 15, 2024An oil spill has occurred at the Shell loading terminal in Nigeria's Delta region after a pipeline ruptured, Nigeria's maritime agency said on Sunday.
December 15, 2024Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have a six-month grace period after their scheduled exit from West Africa's main political and economic group next month during
December 15, 2024
At least 10 people died when a boat capsized on the Benue River in central Nigeria, Benue State police spokesperson Catherine Anene said on Sunday.
December 15, 2024West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS has approved an exit timeline for three coup-hit nations
December 15, 2024
The Dec. 10 story headlined "Meta contractor dismissed threats to moderators by Ethiopia rebels: court documents" is withdrawn out of safety considerations for some named
December 10, 2024
A meeting between the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo will not take place as planned on Sunday, both countries said, dashing hopes of a deal to curb Congo's
December 15, 2024
At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from
December 14, 2024
Libyan officials say clashes have broken out between armed groups in a western city, trapping residents in their homes and causing fires in the country’s second largest oil refinery
December 15, 2024Here are 5 good things that happened this week
December 14, 2024
At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece's southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, and witnesses said many were still missing as
December 14, 2024
Senegal expects a budget deficit of about 7% of gross domestic product in 2025, according to government proposals seen by Reuters on Saturday, down from the 10% revealed in an audit
December 14, 2024
Ghana's President-elect John Dramani Mahama has said he will not abandon the country's $3 billion rescue package with the International Monetary Fund,
December 14, 2024
Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade
December 14, 2024A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia's air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside
December 14, 2024
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the main still-functioning hospital in al-Fashir, in Sudan's North Darfur state on Friday, killing nine people and injuring 20,
December 13, 2024Three African leaders seeking to head the African Union have detailed their plans for regional security amid conflicts and political coups while strongly advocating for inter-Africa trade
December 13, 2024Sophia, a world-renowned robot, has been the center of attention at an Artificial Intelligence and Innovation fair in Zimbabwe this week
December 13, 2024
THE HAGUE - A Sudanese man accused of ordering thousands of pro-government Janjaweed militia to carry out atrocities including murder and rape in Sudan's Darfur region told judges at the International
December 13, 2024
The islands of Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean are bracing for Cyclone Chido as it makes its way toward Africa’s east coast
December 13, 2024Turkey can step in to resolve disputes between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, President Tayyip Erdogan told the head of Sudan's sovereign council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in a
December 13, 2024
Two Namibian opposition parties that are seeking to challenge the result of elections last month won a court order on Friday allowing them to inspect election materials they had
December 13, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing agreed with Egypt that both nations should promote peace and negotiations to achieve stability in the Middle East, amid several crises
December 13, 2024
Zimbabwe’s senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty and it is now set to be signed into law by the president
December 12, 2024
The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing conflicts
December 12, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged rich nations to honor their new commitments to help the world’s poorer countries fight climate change in a speech to Lesotho’s Parliament
December 12, 2024
A humanitarian rescue group says its sailboat plucked from the central Mediterranean an 11-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a shipwreck in stormy seas
December 12, 2024
Male humpback whale makes record-breaking migration
December 12, 2024
Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates have landed at a small airstrip in Chad that some U.N. experts and diplomats suspect
December 12, 2024
A Supreme Court prosecutor in Greece has launched an emergency inquiry into the alleged beating and sexual assault of a 16-year-old Egyptian boy at a camp for migrants outside Athens
December 12, 2024Zimbabwe appears to be heading into another dry spell that could worsen hunger for millions of people already suffering from an El Nino-induced drought,
December 12, 2024
Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of nine migrants while six others are still missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast, a judicial official said on Thursday,
December 12, 2024A court in Comoros released two women on Thursday after a judge found them guilty of engaging in gay sexual activity and sentenced them for a shorter period than
December 12, 2024Nearly 10% of the planet’s human inhabitants live within 3.1 miles of the coast − where the risk of climate disasters is often highest.
December 12, 2024
Girl, 11, survives migrant shipwreck by clinging to tire tubes for 3 days
December 12, 2024
Rights and civil society groups say more than 100 people including children have been killed by security forces in post-election protests in Mozambique that have lasted nearly two months
December 12, 2024
Somalia said on Thursday it had pulled federal troops out of the southwestern Lower Juba region, after clashes with local forces from Jubbaland state which has
December 12, 2024Somalia and Ethiopia said they would work together to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa's plan to build a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland, which had drawn in regional
December 11, 2024
Nigeria is the latest African country to give a new malaria vaccine to young childen
December 12, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Mali’s armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, committed abuses against civilians since the withdrawal of a UN peacekeeping mission late last year
December 12, 2024
Growing demand for the lithium used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage has created a new frontier for mining in Nigeria
December 11, 2024Clashes erupted on Wednesday between forces from Somalia's federal government and the semi-autonomous Jubbaland region, raising
December 11, 2024An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue
December 11, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that existing debt relief mechanisms were far from adequate to address global
December 11, 2024
Nigeria suffered a widespread electricity blackout after its national grid collapsed on Wednesday, the country's power distribution companies said.
December 11, 2024More than 40 people have been killed over the last week in a flare-up of violence between two feuding communities in western Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese
December 11, 2024United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there were signs of hope in Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces over
December 11, 2024
Authorities say the mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria
December 11, 2024
THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor told judges on Wednesday that the suspect in the first trial examining war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region two decades ago was a feared
December 11, 2024
At least six migrants have died trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands using precarious boats from West Africa, the emergency services and the Red Cross said on Wednesday.
December 11, 2024Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state will provide six gunboats to the navy for patrols as part of efforts to help combat oil theft, which has plagued the
December 11, 2024There were around 11 million more cases of malaria in 2023 than in 2022, up to an estimated 263 million, according to a new World Health Organization report, marking another year of
December 11, 2024
South Africa's inflation rate rose less than expected in November, staying just below the central bank's target range thanks to food inflation slowing to its
December 11, 2024
Sudan - for the second year in a row - topped a 2025 watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization on
December 11, 2024
Human trafficking has risen sharply due to conflicts, climate-induced disasters and global crises, according to a United Nations report published on Wednesday.
December 11, 2024
Amnesty International has called for an investigation into a former governor and two top army officials in Congo for “possible crimes against humanity” during a deadly protest crackdown last year
December 11, 2024
Some patients in mysterious outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo have malaria, early testing reveals
December 10, 2024
A coastal community in Haiti’s capital is reeling days after a gang leader was accused of killing more than 100 people to avenge his son’s death
December 10, 2024
A wall collapsed at an illegal gold mine in northern Kenya, killing five people and leaving around 15 others missing, a local government official said on Tuesday.
December 10, 2024At least 127 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday by barrel bombs and shelling from the warring sides, rights activists said.
December 10, 2024
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was heading to Ankara, Turkey, to attend the third round of talks aimed at defusing tensions with Ethiopia, the state news agency reported
December 10, 2024
France has started the withdrawal of its military from Chad with the departure of two warplanes that were based in the capital N'Djamena, the French army said, two weeks after Chad
December 10, 2024
Armed men kidnapped dozens of people in northwestern Nigeria, residents and the police told The Associated Press on Tuesday, in the latest mass abduction in the region
December 10, 2024Police in Kenya’s capital have hurled tear gas canisters at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide or the killing of women
December 10, 2024
The French military says it has flown out the two Mirage fighter jets it had stationed in Chad, signaling the beginning of its withdrawal of military forces from the central African country
December 10, 2024
Kenyan police fired teargas and arrested at least three people on Tuesday as hundreds protested against a wave of femicides, a Reuters reporter and
December 10, 2024
Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate dropped more than expected to 25.5% in November, its lowest since December 2022, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on
December 10, 2024
Egyptian authorities say at least eight people have been killed when an apartment building collapsed Cairo
December 10, 2024
In 2024, people voted in countries that were home to almost half the world's population.
December 10, 2024
A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria's Zamfara state, police and residents said.
December 10, 2024
Zambia's constitutional court ruled on Tuesday that former President Edgar Lungu was ineligible to run for another term in office after he announced his return to politics last year.
December 10, 2024
Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last
December 10, 2024
South African business confidence saw its biggest year-on-year improvement in almost two years in November, boosted by higher tourist numbers, precious metal prices and new
December 10, 2024
A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, police and residents said.
December 10, 2024The World Bank downgraded Kenya's economic growth estimate for this year to 4.7% on Tuesday, from an initial 5.0%, citing the impact of floods, anti-government
December 10, 2024
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December 10, 2024Many lithium mines, led by Chinese operators, are maintaining production of the raw material needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, in defiance of prices weak
December 10, 2024
For eight years a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating the environment
December 09, 2024
Since its inception in 2019, a U.S. development agency has created a portfolio of more than $50 billion worth of projects in 114 countries, including a trans-Africa railway corridor, a power plant in Sierra Leone, and solar panel manufacturing in India
December 09, 2024
Haiti gang massacre leaves over 180 dead after Voodoo accusations, say UN and rights groups
December 09, 2024
Ghana’s former leader John Dramani Mahama has been declared the winner of the presidential election
December 09, 2024
Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a
December 09, 2024
Ghana's electoral commission on Monday declared ex-president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday's
December 09, 2024
The Council of European Union on Monday renewed EU sanctions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for another year, extending them until Dec. 12, 2025, it said in a
December 09, 2024United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned gang violence and loss of life in Haiti, his spokesperson said, after more than 180 people were killed
December 09, 2024
South Africa's rand jumped on Monday at the start of a week packed with economic data releases, as gold prices climbed after China's central bank resumed purchases of the
December 09, 2024
Prosecutors have told the International Criminal Court that they are confident that two alleged leaders of a predominantly Christian rebel group in the Central African Republic are guilty of multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity
December 09, 2024Armed attackers on motorcycles killed at least 21 civilians in the West African nation of Niger, the army said.
December 09, 2024John Dramani Mahama, who is returning as Ghana's president eight years after losing power, achieved his political comeback on a promise to
December 09, 2024
A mystery disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading mainly among children and putting severely malnourished people at risk, according to the World Health Organization
December 09, 2024
After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies
December 09, 2024
Ghana’s former President John Dramani Mahama is set to return to office in the West African nation’s presidential election after the ruling party candidate conceded defeat
December 08, 2024
Former Ghana leader pulls off historic comeback after crucial presidential election
December 08, 2024
Steve Collins, a butterfly collector in Nairobi, has dedicated his life to finding, preserving, and studying African butterfly species, amassing what is considered the world's largest collection. He's now looking for a new home for the collection and someone to carry on his work. CNN's Larry Madowo reports.
December 08, 2024
Each year, celebrities descend on Morocco to attend the Marrakech International Film Festival, enjoy warm weather, luxurious resorts and laud the power of cinema
December 08, 2024
Ghana's former President John Dramani Mahama has staged a political comeback by winning the West African nation's presidential
December 08, 2024
Burkina Faso's military government has appointed Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister of the transition after it fired Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, and dissolved
December 07, 2024Ghana voted in a presidential and parliamentary election on Saturday amid hopes for an economic revival after the worst financial
December 07, 2024
The Marrakech International Film Festival has bestowed its top prize on “Happy Holidays,” a Palestinian drama set in Israel whose screenplay won an award at the Venice Film Festival in September
December 07, 2024
Dr. Michael Osterholm says he believes doctors will know soon what caused 143 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo to die over a period of two weeks after experiencing flu-like symptoms and says evidence indicates that it is not spreading rapidly.
December 07, 2024
Two years ago forensic pathologist Modesto Martinez, 68, moved to the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro with an eye to retiring.
December 07, 2024
Burkina Faso's ruling junta has dismissed interim Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government, a decree issued by the office of military leader Ibrahim
December 06, 2024
Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers serving in Haiti on a U.N.-backed anti-gang force have submitted letters of resignation from the mission over the
December 06, 2024
The World Health Organization said Friday it deployed experts to investigate a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people in southwest Congo
December 06, 2024
An Egyptian military agency has taken over the country's import of strategic commodities, a letter seen by Reuters showed, replacing a decades-old state institution to
December 06, 2024
The World Health Organization said on Friday it is deploying experts to support health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate an as-yet undiagnosed disease
December 06, 2024
A new documentary chronicles Sudan's 2019 revolution and the period of time immediately after the ouster of military dictator Omar Al-Bashir
December 06, 2024
Julien Guerrier has taken a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City
December 06, 2024An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti’s capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of the violence confronting the United Nations-backed force almost daily in Port-au-Prince
December 06, 2024
Ghanaians vote in high-stakes elections as former leader eyes Trump-like comeback
December 06, 2024
Nigeria's Senate has passed a bill seeking to make it a crime to export large quantities of unprocessed corn in an effort to alleviate hunger in the West African
December 06, 2024
Wolves may be pollinators as well as predators, study suggests
December 06, 2024Local authorities in Somalia have confirmed that a Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Xaafuun district in Somalia’s Bari region
December 06, 2024The South African government says the convicted killer of South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani will be deported to his home country of Poland after his parole came to an end this week
December 06, 2024Chinese fishing vessel under control of suspected pirates off Somali coast, EU naval force says
December 06, 2024
South Africa will deport Janusz Walus, a far-right extremist who assassinated anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, to his native Poland on Friday, the government said.
December 06, 2024McKinsey and Company Africa Ltd, a subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, will pay more than $122 million to resolve a U.S. investigation into a
December 05, 2024
Manchester City, Arsenal and now Tottenham
December 05, 2024
Rwanda’s atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the company claims is a new approach for nuclear fission
September 13, 2023Ghana's two main presidential contenders staged rival rallies in the capital, Accra, on Thursday evening, courting voters in a final push ahead of the
December 05, 2024
France says a French official detained in military-led Niger last week has been released
September 14, 2023Kenya’s president is wooing American tech companies, promising a business-friendly environment — even though he has raised taxes on businesses at home
September 15, 2023
Lawyers for an opposition party councilor in Zimbabwe say he and a relative were abducted, beaten and whipped by unknown men amid a post-election crackdown on criticism of recently reelected President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party
September 17, 2023
Libya' health minister says four Greek rescue workers dispatched to Libya following devastating flooding in the eastern city of Derna were killed in a road collision
September 17, 2023
Authorities in northwestern Congo say torrential rain has caused a landslide that killed at least 17 people overnight
September 17, 2023Residents and local media in northcentral Nigeria say at least 20 students have been abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria during an attack that targeted their school
September 22, 2023The military government that seized power in Niger has accused United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of “obstructing” the West African nation’s full participation at the U.N.‘s annual meeting of world leaders in order to appease France and its allies
September 23, 2023President Emmanuel Macron says France will end military presence in Niger and pull ambassador from country after coup
September 24, 2023A spokesperson says Mali's military-led government has postponed a presidential election that was expected to return the West African nation to democracy following a 2020 coup
September 25, 2023Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November
September 26, 2023
Mali, one of Africa's biggest gold producers, has issued an arrest warrant for Barrick Gold Chief Executive Mark Bristow, a warrant
December 05, 2024
An African subsidiary of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc. will pay a criminal penalty of more than $122 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a yearslong scheme to bribe South African government officials
December 05, 2024Congo’s health minister says the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people
December 05, 2024
Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine
December 05, 2024
A Chinese fishing vessel is under the control of alleged pirates in Somalia's waters in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, the European Union's anti-piracy naval force said on
December 05, 2024Namibia's President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged "radical shifts" to fix the country's high levels of poverty and unemployment, speaking on Thursday in her first press
December 05, 2024
The crew of Panama-flagged cargo ship MV ISA STAR have been rescued in the Red Sea after sending a distress signal, the EU's Aspides naval mission said.
December 05, 2024President Joe Biden’s long-delayed trip to Africa was overshadowed by his controversial pardon of his son Hunter
December 04, 2024
A court in Kenya has found the housemate of an LBGTQ activist guilty of murder in the killing of the activist, whose body was discovered stashed in a metal box two years ago
December 04, 2024Biden wraps historic Africa trip overshadowed by domestic and geopolitical controversies
December 04, 2024
A gang of armed men planted explosives along the Dansadau-Gusau road in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, causing significant damage and casualties, a military
December 04, 2024President Joe Biden has ducked questions on his decision to break his word and pardon his son Hunter, ignoring calls for him to explain his reversal as he was making his first presidential trip to Angola
December 03, 2024
President Joe Biden has pledged another $600 million for an ambitious multi-country rail project in Africa as one of the final foreign policy moves of his administration
December 04, 2024
Multilateral lender Climate Investment Funds will back a $500 million plan to help drought-prone Ethiopia restore degraded land, protect its forests and bolster food
December 04, 2024
Shelling renewed at the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp on Wednesday, after a lull the previous day in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, according to activists and medics
December 04, 2024China's zero-tariff access for Africa's least developed countries kicked in this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said, just as U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola.
December 04, 2024
A Kenyan court on Wednesday found the housemate of gay rights activist Edwin Kiptoo guilty of his murder, authorities said, nearly two years after the killing sent shockwaves
December 04, 2024The new head of the U.N. humanitarian aid agency is calling for “ruthlessness” when prioritizing how it spends money
December 04, 2024
Violent clashes have escalated between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s army and Rwandan-backed M23 Tutsi-led rebels in eastern Congo, killing scores and
February 19, 2024
U.S.
December 04, 2024
Congolese authorities say extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group killed at least 9 people, including an 8-month-old baby and a 14-year-old girl, in eastern Congo and kidnapped several others
December 04, 2024Russia's involvement can be seen in many of the wars currently taking place across the world, said British Foreign Minister David Lammy at a NATO meeting on Wednesday, as he urged
December 04, 2024
South Africa's consumer confidence slipped one point in the fourth quarter, although retail sales during the festive season are still expected to be their best levels last seen in 2019, a
December 04, 2024
Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ability to alleviate hunger in the
December 04, 2024
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on his first official visit to Mali on Thursday, said he raised the question of remaining in regional bloc ECOWAS with his Malian
June 16, 2024
Senegalese head to the polls to vote in a tightly contested presidential election marred by months of unrest that has threatened democracy in one of West Africa’s most stable nations
March 24, 2024
A state official in northwest Nigeria says nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in have been released more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school
March 24, 2024
Senegalese anxiously are awaiting the results of Sunday's presidential election, following months of uncertainty and unrest that tested its reputation as a stable democracy in a region rife with coups
March 25, 2024
Authorities in Kenya say that an explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in the northeast of the country has killed four people
March 25, 2024
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Monday for reparations over the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people as a way to tackle its legacy in today's
July 02, 2024
South African prosecutors say they intend to charge the parliamentary speaker with corruption
March 25, 2024
Senegal woke up to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political novice
March 26, 2024
Kenya's government has begun handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country
March 26, 2024
The United States is eyeing April 18 for a possible resumption of peace talks on Sudan in Saudi Arabia, U.S.
April 26, 2024
Public frustration over Ghana's economic travails, including high prices and a dearth of jobs, has dominated the run-up to Saturday's general election,
December 04, 2024
A Rwandan man who authorities say took part in the country’s 1994 genocide before making his way to the U.S. has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston
March 26, 2024Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity say they saw them and that they couldn't hold back tears of joy during the reunion
March 27, 2024
Results from Senegal’s tightly contested presidential election show a previously little-known opposition figure won over 54% of the votes
March 27, 2024
The special U_N_ envoy for Congo says security in the African nation’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group allegedly linked to neighboring Rwanda making “significant advances and expanding its territory.”
March 27, 2024
Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people
March 28, 2024
Emergency workers in South Africa are searching for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire
March 29, 2024
Representatives of two armed groups in Congo signed solemn pledges this week to both their violence-wracked country and the wider world: We will do better to respect and protect civilians
March 30, 2024
A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging
March 31, 2024
Dr. John Nkengasong has spent decades working in Africa on HIV and AIDS, his career intertwined with a U.S. program that has transformed care in some of the hardest-hit countries and saved an estimated 25 million lives
April 01, 2024
More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion
April 02, 2024
The United Nations on Wednesday sought $47 billion in aid for 2025 to help around 190 million people fleeing conflict and battling starvation, at a time when this
December 04, 2024
Senegal is inaugurating Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president, completing the previously little-known opposition figure’s dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks
April 02, 2024
Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic since a disarmament program launched nearly a decade ago
April 03, 2024
Uganda’s constitutional court has upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
April 03, 2024
Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of disaster over a devastating El Nino drought sweeping across much of southern Africa
April 03, 2024
The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond production, but they joined forces to keep supporting the Kimberley Process, which aims to eliminate the trade in “blood diamonds” that helped fuel devastating conflicts in Africa
April 04, 2024
Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country’s Constitutional Court refused to nullify on Wednesday
April 04, 2024
Nigerian authorities has asked in court for cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to be tried for alleged money laundering and tax evasion, the first legal step following weeks of a criminal investigation into the trading platform
April 04, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
April 04, 2024
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep lethargy
April 04, 2024
South African footballer Luke Fleurs has been killed in a hijacking in Johannesburg
April 04, 2024
A safari company says a bull elephant charged a truck that an 80-year-old American was riding in with other tourists on a game drive in a Zambian national park, flipping over the vehicle and killing her
April 04, 2024A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast
April 05, 2024
The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months following two successful cross-border operations but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives
April 05, 2024
Family members described an American tourist who was killed in Africa when a bull elephant charged the truck she was riding in as an adventurer
April 05, 2024Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the killings
April 06, 2024
In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women
April 06, 2024
A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects
April 07, 2024
Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country that continues to grapple with the legacy of the massacres
April 07, 2024
Local media reports in Mozambique say that more than 90 people including children have died after a makeshift ferry sank off the country's northern coast
April 08, 2024
Police and Red Cross workers are engaged in a rescue operation at a swollen river in northern Kenya after a bus carrying an unknown number of passengers was swept away by floodwaters
April 09, 2024
South Africa’s Electoral Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office as a lawmaker in the upcoming election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls
April 09, 2024
A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike for almost one month
April 09, 2024
The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in Africa's most populous country
April 11, 2024
Mali’s ruling junta issued a decree suspending all political activities until further notice late on Wednesday, citing a need to preserve public order
April 11, 2024Mali’s ruling junta has banned the media from reporting on the activities of political parties and associations in the country
April 11, 2024
The war in Sudan began a year ago
April 12, 2024
State television in Niger has broadcast footage of Russian military trainers arriving in the country aboard a plane equipped with security supplies
April 12, 2024
The United Nations say heavy rains pounding different parts of Kenya have led to the deaths of at least 13 people and displaced some 15,000 people
April 12, 2024
Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta's order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to what
April 26, 2024
Hundreds took to the streets of Niger's capital on Saturday to demand the departure of U.S. troops, after the ruling junta further shifted
April 26, 2024
South Africa's health regulator said on Saturday it is recalling batches of Johnson & Johnson's children's cough syrup after detection of high levels of diethylene glycol.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Sunday will announce an additional $100 million in aid to respond to the conflict in Sudan, according to a statement seen by Reuters,
April 26, 2024
A U.S. judge has tossed out a series of civil lawsuits against a Libyan military commander who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country’s civil war
April 14, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that world donors are pledging more than 2 billion euros in aid for Sudan after a year of war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine
April 15, 2024
For the artistic and cultural elites of the West African nation of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment
December 04, 2024
A senior official at Nigeria's drug regulator said on Tuesday that the regulator had no record of children dying from a batch of cough syrup manufactured by Johnson & Johnson which
April 26, 2024
Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania
April 16, 2024
A United Nations forum on people of African descent opened on Tuesday with calls for extra funding to support its work and progress towards reparations for transatlantic
April 26, 2024
Authorities in Ivory Coast's largest city are demolishing homes in low-income areas over what they say are public health concerns, leaving thousands without shelter and with nowhere to go
April 17, 2024
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
April 17, 2024
The United States has barred four former officials of the Malawi government from entry because of their involvement in significant corruption, the State Department said on
April 17, 2024South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since transitioning from white minority rule to a democracy 30 years ago
April 18, 2024
Nigeria's army says soldiers rescued a pregnant woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok
April 18, 2024
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners in an independence day amnesty
April 18, 2024
Kenya’s military chief Gen. Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced
April 18, 2024
Street vendors in Mali’s capital of Bamako peddle water sachets, ubiquitous for this part of West Africa during the hottest months
April 19, 2024
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to achieve a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon
April 19, 2024
A UN report says drug seizures have soared in the West African Sahel region in recent years, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential hotspot for trafficking
April 19, 2024
The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on Friday, adding his
May 06, 2024
Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone
April 19, 2024
The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters late on Friday, adding an agreement was reached between
April 19, 2024U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no timeline
April 20, 2024
Witnesses in Central African Republic say that at least 20 people have drowned after a ferry sank in the capital
April 20, 2024Alexander Mutiso Munyao denied 41-year-old Kenenisa Bekele a first London Marathon victory by pulling away from the Ethiopian great with about 3 kilometers to go for his biggest career win
April 21, 2024
Tesla is cutting prices of some models in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a spokesperson said on Sunday.
May 06, 2024
Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year
April 23, 2024
Moroccan officials are aiming to turn the country into an aviation hub, luring investors aiming to spread out their supply chains to more nations with available and affordable workers
April 23, 2024
Skies over southern Greece have turned an orange hue as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks
April 23, 2024
The United States on Wednesday called on all armed forces in Sudan to immediately cease attacks in al-Fashir, North Darfur, as Sudan's army battles the paramilitary Rapid
April 24, 2024Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African country
April 24, 2024
A top U.S. military official says there's been no final decision on whether or not all U.S. troops will leave Niger and Chad
April 24, 2024
Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help
April 25, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo is pushing Apple Inc for more information about its supply chain over concerns it may be tainted with conflict minerals sourced from the country,
April 25, 2024
As of 2022, only Nigeria and Sudan had lower trade-to-GDP ratios.
April 25, 2024
Congo’s government is questioning Apple about the tech company’s knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into supply chains
April 25, 2024
Tanzania's prime minister says flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others
April 25, 2024
The disintegration of the United States’ relationship with Niger following its military coup in 2023 is giving way to stronger ties between the African country and Russia and China.
April 16, 2024
Human Rights Watch says military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants
April 25, 2024
South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule and racial segregation
April 26, 2024
A selection of South African artworks produced during the country’s apartheid era which ended up in foreign art collections is on display in Johannesburg
April 26, 2024
Somalia's government said it had suspended and detained several members of an elite, U.S.-trained commando unit for stealing rations donated by the United States,
April 26, 2024Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio stations for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces
April 26, 2024
The United Nations is increasingly concerned about a possible imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan's North Dafur region and is seeking to reduce tensions
April 26, 2024South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27
April 27, 2024
South Africa has marked 30 years since the end of apartheid with a ceremony in the capital
April 27, 2024
Kenya has postponed the reopening of its schools by one week due to ongoing flooding caused by heavy rains, as flood-related deaths since mid-March in the East African country neared 100
April 29, 2024
Police in Kenya say at least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in the country’s west
April 29, 2024
People in Togo have voted in parliamentary elections that tested support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president
April 29, 2024
Some 135 people were killed in a crush at a soccer stadium in southeast Guinea on Sunday, a local group of human rights organisations said, sharing an estimated death toll more
December 03, 2024
Credit ratings agency Moody's affirmed South Africa's Ba2 rating on Tuesday, highlighting the country's robust financial sector and external position following a recent regime change.
December 03, 2024
Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs” and people downstream are being told to move away
April 30, 2024
South African police are investigating if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month
April 30, 2024
The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years
April 30, 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it had reached a staff-level agreement with Mali for about $120 million in emergency financing, as the West African
May 15, 2024
Uganda has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for a $295 million loan to fund road construction and other projects, the east African country's
May 15, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov visited Sudan on Monday in a signal of support for the Sudanese army which is locked in a year-long war with the paramilitary Rapid Support
May 14, 2024
The first asylum seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government
May 14, 2024
Voting got under way in legislative elections in Togo on Monday following approval of constitutional reforms by the outgoing parliament that
May 14, 2024
Coca-Cola is gearing up for a potential initial public offering (IPO) of its African bottling business as soon as next year, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with
May 14, 2024
Zimbabwe has started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by depreciation and often outright rejection by the people
April 30, 2024
Flash floods and a landslide in central Kenya killed at least 45 people and injured over 110 others on Monday as floodwaters swept away houses and cars in the town of Mai
May 14, 2024
Kenya Airways said it would suspend flights to the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa from Tuesday, after military authorities there failed to release its employees
May 14, 2024
A high court in Ghana has dismissed a legal challenge to President Nana Akufo-Addo's decision not to act immediately on an anti-LGBTQ bill passed by parliament in February, it ruled
April 29, 2024Burkina Faso has suspended a number of Western and African media over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, its communications
April 28, 2024Nigeria secured a $600 million investment in seaport infrastructure from Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday.
May 14, 2024
Portugal's government said on Saturday it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the
May 14, 2024
The U.N. Security Council on Saturday expressed its "deep concern" over an imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur region by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
April 27, 2024Police in Benin fired tear gas to break up a protest over the cost of living called by trade unions and they arrested several senior union figures on Saturday,
May 13, 2024
Burkina Faso has suspended the radio broadcasts of BBC Africa and the U.S-funded Voice of America (VOA) for two weeks over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the
May 13, 2024
Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general
May 13, 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the
May 13, 2024
A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public
May 01, 2024
Kenya Airways on Friday accused authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of harassment over the continued detention of two of the airline's staff for alleged
May 13, 2024
When Isaac Anthony Lumori launched South Sudan's first weekly comedy show at the height of a civil war in 2014, his performers' quips about different ethnic
May 11, 2024
At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison
May 10, 2024
Kenya's military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month.
May 10, 2024
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