Suicide attacker in Somali capital kills 13 at a military recruitment center
A suicide bomber in the Somali capital has targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others
May 18, 2025A suicide bomber in the Somali capital has targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others
May 18, 2025At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber targeted a queue of young recruits registering at the Damanyo military base in the Somali capital Mogadishu,
May 18, 2025Severe storms across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 27 people dead
May 18, 2025Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said on Saturday that eliminating militias is an "ongoing project," as a ceasefire after deadly clashes this week
May 17, 2025Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who have been living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been repatriated
May 17, 2025House Republicans are in the final rounds of negotiations over a sweeping budget plan that has been significantly influenced by President Donald Trump's priorities
May 17, 2025A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis
May 15, 2025Gabon's ousted former president Ali Bongo has flown to Angola with his wife and son, who had been freed almost two years after being detained following a coup, Angola's presidency
May 16, 2025U.S. oil producer Chevron Corp and several European companies are in talks with the Trump administration to obtain authorizations to keep their stakes in joint ventures with Venezuela's
May 15, 2025As Romania heads into a critical presidential runoff on Sunday between two starkly different candidates, many view the final vote as a geopolitical choice between East or West
May 16, 2025President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said on Thursday he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft
May 15, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim this week that there is an unreported “genocide” happening against white farmers in South Africa was his harshest accusation yet against a country he has moved to punish over a range of issues
May 15, 2025President Donald Trump says the United States and Iran have “sort of” agreed to terms on a nuclear deal
May 15, 2025U.S. envoys in Africa will be rated on commercial deals struck, not aid spent, a senior State Department official said, touting it as the new strategy for U.S.
May 15, 2025On Cristian Giacobone's farm in the heart of Argentina's Pampas plains, workers in the soy fields have been up since dawn, racing to
May 15, 2025Rwanda's central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at 6.5% in a decision announced on Thursday and said it planned to start buying gold for its international
May 15, 2025Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges following an appeal to a
May 15, 2025Congolese authorities have accused Rwanda’s army and the M23 rebel group it backs of killing dozens and kidnapping thousands in the war-torn country’s east
May 15, 2025President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to hold talks at the White House next week
May 14, 2025South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to the United States on a working visit next week and will meet U.S.
May 14, 2025The wife and son of Gabon's former president have been transferred from prison to house arrest, though it is unclear when they might stand trial for alleged financial crimes,
May 14, 2025The Danish Refugee Council, a major humanitarian group, said on Wednesday it will end its relief programmes in six countries and slash 650 additional jobs after the United States,
May 14, 2025The worst fighting in Libya's capital for years calmed on Wednesday after the government announced a ceasefire, Tripoli residents said, while there was no immediate statement from
May 14, 2025Pope Leo XIV, the first American to head the global Catholic Church, pledged on Wednesday to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a
May 14, 2025France's foreign ministry summoned a senior Algerian diplomat on Wednesday to inform him that Paris was expelling Algerians holding diplomatic passports without visas in a response
May 14, 2025A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang
May 13, 2025Lawyers for the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras confirmed that the family is lifting its lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump
May 13, 2025Burkina Faso’s junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore has sparked a social media debate, with some in Africa praising him and others criticizing him
May 13, 2025An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed a well-known Palestinian journalist whom it accused of working with Hamas and was
May 13, 2025Mali's military government announced on Tuesday that it had dissolved all political parties, approving a recommendation publicised last month that spurred unprecedented protests in
May 13, 2025Tanzanian authorities arrested a senior opposition official as he was departing for a political conference in Belgium, his party said on Tuesday, as fears grow of an escalating crackdown
May 13, 2025The killing of a powerful militia leader in the Libyan capital on Monday night sparked hours of intense clashes that drove his group from its main stronghold and may prompt a
May 13, 2025For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer
May 12, 2025UN mission in Libya calls for de-escalation after fighting erupts in capital
May 13, 2025President Donald Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he had intended to focus on pressing wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States
May 12, 2025The Trump administration has brought a small group of white South Africans to the United States as refugees in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort
May 12, 2025By Natalia Siniawski The top diplomats from Kenya and the Dominican Republic met in Santo Domingo on Monday and called on the international community to fulfill and expand its promised funding for the
May 12, 2025The Trump administration welcomed on Monday 59 white South Africans it granted refugee status in the U.S., having
May 12, 2025White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration arrive in US
May 12, 2025Human Rights Watch says at least 100 civilians in Burkina Faso were killed by government forces near the town of Solenzo in the western Boucle du Mouhoun region in an attack in March
May 12, 2025The first white South Africans granted refugee status under a programme initiated by U.S.
May 11, 2025A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration
May 11, 2025Pope Leo XIV appealed to the world's major powers for "no more war" in his first Sunday message to crowds in St.
May 11, 2025The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort
May 10, 2025At least seven people have been killed in two districts of Mogadishu after a flood triggered by severe rainfall swept through the east African nation on Friday
May 10, 2025Sudanese authorities say a suspected drone attack has killed at least 20 prisoners in the southern region of Kordofan
May 10, 2025U.S.
May 09, 2025The Trump administration will welcome more than two dozen white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week
May 09, 2025Ugandan opposition leader and pop singer Bobi Wine said on Friday he plans to run for president for a second time and criticised the West for not speaking out more against "gross
May 09, 2025Nigeria's Senate passed four tax reform bills on Friday aimed at boosting government revenue, nearing completion of a plan that has faced criticism and pushback from
May 09, 2025An attempt by Mali's military government to stamp out public dissent by banning all political activity will be put to the test on Friday as critics wary of security
May 09, 2025President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job
May 08, 2025U.S. energy groups are asking President Donald Trump's administration to exempt liquefied natural gas tankers from a new rule
May 07, 2025Gaza's tiny Christian community said that they were happy about the election of a new leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, adding they were also confident he would give
May 08, 2025Two advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents
May 08, 2025Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya
May 08, 2025U.S. law firm Susman Godfrey asked a judge in Washington on Thursday to permanently bar President Donald Trump's executive order against it, calling the
May 08, 2025The United States will cut $50 million worth of medical aid a year to Zambia because of “systematic” theft of the aid in past years and the government’s failure to crack down on corruption
May 08, 2025Nigeria has repaid $3.4 billion in emergency funding it received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help the country cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic five
May 08, 2025With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S.
May 08, 2025Fighting along the Nile River in South Sudan has prevented humanitarian aid from reaching more than 60,000 malnourished children in the northeast of the country for almost a month,
May 08, 2025Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow as Putin’s ‘guest of honor’ ahead of Victory Day military parade
May 07, 2025State media say Mali’s military government has announced the suspension of political party activities in the West African country “until further notice.”
May 07, 2025Sudan's army said its anti-aircraft systems intercepted drones on Wednesday targeting a naval base in the wartime capital Port Sudan.
May 07, 2025Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve 12 months in prison — the minimum penalty for the offense — for violating wildlife conservation laws
May 07, 2025When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program
May 07, 2025Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to
May 06, 2025The head of Yemen's Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, said the Iran-aligned group will continue their attacks to support Gaza, Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV
May 06, 2025Explosions and fires rocked Sudan's wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country's biggest fuel depots and damaged
May 06, 2025The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have restarted peace talks in Qatar, sources said on Tuesday, part of a diplomatic
May 06, 2025Cardinals have wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings before they enter the conclave to elect a new pope
May 06, 2025Skype users are scrambling to find an alternative after Microsoft shut down the pioneering internet phone service which let people make cheap long distance calls and chat with other users
May 06, 2025Fact check: Trump makes more false claims about Canada in advance of meeting with prime minister
May 06, 2025A bombing attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital and pharmacy in South Sudan over the weekend was deliberate and may amount to a war crime, the U.N.
May 06, 2025British maritime security firm Ambrey reported on Tuesday that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had launched a drone attack on facilities at Port Sudan, targeting the
May 06, 2025A magistrate court in Tanzania has ordered that an opposition leader who was charged with treason last month be brought in court in person after he went on hunger strike to protest virtual hearings
May 06, 2025A Ugandan opposition activist, who President Yoweri Museveni's son said he had been holding captive in his basement, appears to have been tortured, the East African nation's justice
May 06, 2025Growing up in Nigeria's cocoa farming area of Ikom in the southeast, Anyoghe Akwa did not see much of a future, so instead he decided to move away, study
May 06, 2025The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday said it can not rule on Sudan's case accusing the United Arab Emirates of fueling genocide in Darfur by supplying weapons to
May 05, 2025A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end fighting in resource-rich eastern Congo
May 05, 2025Togo leader Faure Gnassingbe has been given the powerful new role of President of the Council of Ministers which has no fixed term limit, parliament said - a move the opposition
May 05, 2025Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process meant to end fighting in eastern Congo and attract billions of dollars of Western investment, U.S.
May 05, 2025Egypt's net foreign assets jumped by $4.9 billion in March, central bank data showed, apparently boosted by the approval of the fourth review of the country's IMF programme.
May 05, 2025A Kenyan court on Monday charged four police officers with crimes against humanity over accusations of killing a baby during a crackdown on protests after a disputed election in
May 05, 2025Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse conclave in history
May 05, 2025Top UN court dismisses Sudan’s genocide case against UAE
May 05, 2025The top United Nations court has dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s deadly civil war
May 05, 2025Hundreds of activists defied threats from Mali’s military government and demonstrated over the weekend in the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago
May 05, 2025Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday.
May 05, 2025Israel called on Qatar, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas, to "stop playing both sides with its double talk and decide if it's on the side of civilization or if it's on the
May 03, 2025Hospital bombing kills 7 amid fears South Sudan is returning to civil war
May 03, 2025The NCAA has taken disciplinary action against five current or former Iowa State athletic department employees for combining to make more than 6,200 online bets totaling more than $100,000 on professional and college games, including men’s and women’s basketball games involving the Cyclones
May 02, 2025At least seven people were killed and 20 injured and the last remaining hospital and pharmacy in the country's Fangak county were destroyed in bombings, medical charity
May 03, 2025The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most
May 03, 2025Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it had become the latest African country to grant a licence to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink and that the company would begin
May 02, 2025Israel's security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and
May 02, 2025The U.N.
May 02, 2025A Haitian woman who moved to South America nearly a decade ago was finally reunited with her daughter through a local visa program that
May 02, 2025What’s emerged from the Washington-led effort to end the war in Ukraine suggests a deal that seems likely to be favorable to Russia
May 02, 2025A South African court found a mother and two accomplices guilty on Friday of kidnapping and trafficking her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained
May 02, 2025Uganda's military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man's
May 02, 2025With the end of a U.S. tariff exemption for small parcels on Friday, some retailers have stopped selling to customers in the United States while others are seeking
May 02, 2025Farmers in a breadbasket town in eastern Congo who previously fled heavy fighting are facing new challenges as they return to tend fields now under
May 02, 2025A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian Institution would be under review for whether they should remain on display at the institution
May 02, 2025The U.S. is pushing Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace accord at the White House in about two months, accompanied by bilateral mineral deals that would bring billions of
May 01, 2025Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say
April 30, 2025Kenya's police have said the fatal shooting of a lawmaker by a gunman aboard a motorcycle in the capital Nairobi on Wednesday evening appeared to be targeted and premeditated.
May 01, 2025If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history
May 01, 2025A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime
May 01, 2025Harris accuses Trump of abandoning American ideals in first major speech since leaving office
May 01, 2025A Kenyan lawmaker was shot dead on Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi by gunmen on motorcycles, local broadcaster Citizen TV reported.
April 30, 2025First Canada, now Australia? Conservatives fear the Trump slump is spreading
April 30, 2025Sudan's army leader Abdel Fattah Burhan appointed diplomat Dafallah Al-Haj Ali as acting prime minister on Wednesday, weeks after the army's recapture of Khartoum.
April 30, 2025Millions of dollars in U.S. grants for Jordan's largest water desalination project abruptly dried up when President Donald Trump announced sweeping cuts to
April 30, 2025South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is setting up a judicial commission of inquiry to establish whether attempts were made to prevent the investigation or prosecution of
April 30, 2025A surge in attacks in Nigeria's northeast by Boko Haram and its splinter rival ISWAP has raised fears of a major comeback by jihadists, whose tactics now include armed
April 29, 2025Nigeria has appointed a new commander for its fight against insurgency in the northeast after renewed attacks in the last four months that have killed several
April 29, 2025A national conference of political actors in Mali has recommended naming junta leader Assimi Goita, who seized power following coups in 2020 and 2021, as
April 29, 2025A U.N. panel of experts charged with monitoring sanctions in Sudan is investigating how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the United Arab
April 29, 2025Rwanda escorted the troops of a Southern African force through Rwandan territory to Tanzania on Tuesday as they pulled out from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda's foreign
April 29, 2025The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won Canada’s federal election
April 28, 2025The twisted metal and bloodstained rubble of a detention centre in mountainous northern Yemen on Monday marked the end of an arduous journey for scores of migrants killed in what the
April 28, 2025Boys become warriors in an ancient initiation ceremony in Kenya’s Maasai community
April 28, 2025Somalia's Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, reshuffled his government on Sunday, appointing a new defence minister as his government tries to stem an Islamist insurgency.
April 27, 2025Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor
April 27, 2025Federal judge says 2-year-old US citizen was deported with mother to Honduras
April 26, 2025Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country's latest outbreak of ebola, three months after authorities confirmed cases of the highly infectious and often
April 26, 2025At least 11 people were killed after a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hit a displacement camp in Sudan's River Nile state, the governor said
April 25, 2025Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office
April 25, 2025Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate was at 85.7% in April in local currency terms, statistics agency data showed.
April 25, 2025The World Food Programme warned on Friday it is facing a funding shortfall that could affect its ability to support people facing acute food shortages in Sudan
April 25, 2025Gabon's Constitutional Court on Friday confirmed Brice Oligui Nguema won the Central African nation's April 12 presidential election, official results showed.
April 25, 2025Sub-Saharan African economies should work to increase their domestic revenue collection to avoid having to take on debt amid "
April 25, 2025South African economic growth will be a bit weaker this year than thought a month ago partly due to trade tensions, with U.S.
April 25, 2025Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed groups, according to an agreement
April 25, 2025Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to stage a violent coup in Congo that failed
April 25, 2025Pope Francis visited a record 10 African countries throughout his pontificate, often venturing to areas ravaged by war, poverty or natural disaster
April 25, 2025Ethiopia's inflation is expected to decline to 10% in the coming financial year, the country's central bank chief Mamo Mihretu said on Thursday, the lowest level in a
April 24, 2025South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday that he had spoken to U.S.
April 24, 2025South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday that peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow should start without
April 24, 2025U.S. officials have interviewed white South Africans seeking refugee status about their troubles with
April 24, 2025The South African government has canceled a proposed tax increase that has threatened to collapse the unity government after a pushback from various political parties
April 24, 2025China and Kenya announced they had upgraded ties to a "new level" on Thursday during a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto in
April 24, 2025Police in Tanzania detained two senior opposition figures on Thursday as the men drove to a court hearing for their leader Tundu Lissu, who has been charged with treason,
April 24, 2025Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to build closer ties with China on Thursday, a day after saying a global trade war triggered by Washington could deal a “death blow” to the current world order
April 24, 2025South Africa on Thursday scrapped plans to raise value-added tax after a political backlash that threatened the stability of the ruling coalition
April 23, 2025The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels on Wednesday pledged in statements released after talks in Qatar to work towards peace after
April 23, 2025Rwanda said on Wednesday it was in talks with the U.S. over a potential minerals deal, a development that follows similar ongoing talks between Washington and Rwanda's neighbour
April 23, 2025Kenyan police who raided a national park guesthouse earlier this month aimed not to bust elephant tusk or rhino horn poachers but a more
April 23, 2025