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
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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
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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
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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
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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
The South African rand rose on Thursday, after monthly domestic producer inflation came in as expected.
May 10, 2024
Burkina Faso's military in February summarily executed about 223 villagers, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with
May 10, 2024
Inflation in key African economies will slow into next year but remain stubbornly high in Nigeria due to sporadic flooding and difficult terrain for the naira
May 10, 2024
Adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, the migrants from West Africa resorted to drinking seawater to quench their unbearable thirst.
May 10, 2024
Kenya's government has advised lawmakers against banning TikTok over concerns about content shared on the platform, and instead recommended stricter oversight by
May 09, 2024
Tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains continue to batter the country
May 01, 2024
Tunisian coast guard recovered 14 bodies of migrants off the coast of Djerba, a judicial official told Reuters on Wednesday, raising the number of migrants died off Tunisia coasts in
April 24, 2024South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a
May 08, 2024
Egypt's economy will grow slower than previously expected this year after it signed an $8 billion financial support package with the IMF that came with conditions,
May 08, 2024
Twenty one migrants died and another 23 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the second such incident in two weeks, the United Nations
April 23, 2024Sudan's army used anti-aircraft missiles on Tuesday to shoot down drones targeting its headquarters in the city of Shendi, witnesses and army sources said, the latest in a series of such
April 23, 2024Attacks around the Sudanese city of al-Fashir have shattered a truce that protected it from a year-old war, leading to warnings of a new
April 23, 2024The Malian Supreme Court should annul the ruling junta's order to suspend political activities, a group of Malian political parties and civil society organisations said in an appeal
May 07, 2024
Six soldiers of the Nigerian army were ambushed and killed by gunmen while on patrol in the northern Niger state on Friday, the army said, the latest loss inflicted on the military
April 22, 2024Portuguese oil company Galp Energia said on Sunday it had concluded the first phase of exploration in the Mopane field off the coast of Namibia and estimated it
April 21, 2024
Ghana's Finance Minister expects a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from the country's bilateral creditors in May on a restructuring deal, he
April 21, 2024
Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as
May 01, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that Turkey would join in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
May 16, 2024
Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo might more easily spread among people
May 02, 2024
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars
May 02, 2024
The United States will provide nearly $55 million to address a dire humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso, U.S. aid chief Samantha Power will announce on
May 17, 2024
The government of the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe will ask Portugal to repair the moral damages caused by colonialism, the country's education
May 17, 2024
Nigeria's military has ordered two officers to face court martial proceedings over a drone strike that killed at least 85 civilians, the defence HQ said on Thursday,
May 02, 2024In the South African township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was
May 16, 2024
Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers
May 02, 2024
South Africa faces upside risks to its inflation outlook, Central Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said, but the latest data has not shown evidence of price
May 06, 2024
Angola's central bank sees relative stability for the country's kwanza currency this year, Governor Manuel Tiago Dias said on Saturday, cautioning that the
April 20, 2024Chad's air force chief ordered the United States to halt activities at an air base near the capital N'Djamena, according to a letter sent to the transitional government and seen by Reuters
April 19, 2024Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout
May 06, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo should file a complaint with the International Court of Justice over
May 06, 2024
An airstrike on a village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state killed at least 33 people last week, four residents and a traditional
April 19, 2024Incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa are falling further behind the rest of the world amid a "tepid" economic recovery, the
May 04, 2024
BNP Paribas was ordered by a U.S. judge on Thursday to face a lawsuit accusing the French bank of helping Sudan's government commit genocide between 1997 and
May 03, 2024
Kenya's military chief, General Francis Ogolla, was among 10 people killed when their military helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday, President William Ruto
April 18, 2024In Chad's scorching capital N'Djamena, housewife Sylvie Belrangar turned the handle of a tap but nothing trickled out as water
May 18, 2024
Chad will hold presidential elections on Monday, making it the first in a string of coup-hit states across Central and West Africa to use the
May 03, 2024
Chad will on Monday become the first of West and Central Africa's junta-ruled countries to hold a vote since a wave of coups swept over the region.
May 18, 2024
Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of "beating a war drum" over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans
May 18, 2024
Nigerian military authorities say two military personnel will face a court martial over the killing of 85 villagers in a drone attack in the West African nation’s conflict-battered north four months earlier
May 03, 2024
Attacks at two displacement camps in eastern Congo's North Kivu province have killed at least 12 people, including children
May 03, 2024
At least nine people, including seven children, were killed on Friday in a strike on a displacement camp in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, a local
May 03, 2024Torrential rains that caused widespread flooding and landslides across Kenya in recent weeks, killing at least 210 people, are forecast to worsen over the rest of this month,
July 02, 2024
At least 1,000 Sudanese refugees have fled a camp run by the United Nations in northern Ethiopia following a series of shootings and robberies, three of the
May 03, 2024Violence around the city of al-Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, has blocked a recently opened humanitarian corridor from Chad and time is running out to prevent starvation in the vast region, the
May 19, 2024
Fighting resumed in eastern Congo on Monday, again violating a ceasefire, the M23 rebel group and Congolese army said, casting doubt on whether the M23
December 03, 2024
An attack by gunmen on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan's South Darfur killed two drivers and injured three other staff on Thursday, the
May 03, 2024The United Nations food agency is warning Sudan’s warring parties that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region
May 04, 2024
Rwanda on Saturday denied U.S. accusations that its forces attacked a displaced persons' camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and instead blamed militias it
May 04, 2024The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the interior ministry said on Sunday.
July 02, 2024
Togo's ruling party has won 108 out of 113 seats in parliament, according to the final provisional results of last month's legislative election announced on Friday.
May 20, 2024
An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder,
May 20, 2024
Chad deployed dozens of security forces in the capital amid rising tensions on Monday as polls closed and vote counting
July 02, 2024
Voters in Chad have headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a long delayed presidential election that is set to end three years of military rule under the interim president
May 06, 2024
A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the apartment block at least four years before the blaze
May 06, 2024
In an interview with The Associated Press, the new head of Liberia's forest management authority, Rudolph Merab, said he would work to increase timber exports and cut regulations
May 06, 2024
Mozambique's ruling FRELIMO party has announced Daniel Chapo will be its presidential candidate in an election scheduled for October.
May 21, 2024
Authorities say two workers are dead and 53 are trapped under rubble after a multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa
May 06, 2024A court in Malawi has dropped corruption charges against the country's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima, clearing a legal hurdle over his potential candidacy in next year's
May 21, 2024
Rescue efforts were underway after three people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building under
May 06, 2024
At least 107 migrants including women and children have been freed from captivity in a town in southeast Libya, a security force spokesman said on Monday.
May 06, 2024Rescuers were using cranes, drills and their bare hands to try to reach dozens of people trapped when a multi-storey building being
May 22, 2024
Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have brought out more survivors as the operation entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the mangled wreckage
May 07, 2024
BHP's plan to divest the South African assets of its target Anglo American are key to the strategy behind the proposed
May 21, 2024
Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner Tuesday of last week’s presidential election as the long-ruling party remains in power
December 03, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is facing an attempt to oust him from leadership positions in his new party, state broadcaster SABC reported on
May 22, 2024
Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains
May 07, 2024
Eighteen people were killed and 32 wounded on Friday when at least five rockets fell on camps sheltering displaced people around the eastern Congolese
May 07, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the island state of Cape Verde had become the first African country to agree to attend a world "peace summit" aimed at finding
May 22, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained Saadia Mosbah, a prominent activist and head of a nongovernmental group that defends the rights of migrants, human rights groups said,
May 07, 2024Authorities say a cruise ship worker from South Africa has been arrested in Alaska’s capital city after he was accused of attacking a woman and two security guards with scissors on board the vessel
May 08, 2024Egypt's non-oil private sector continued to shrink in April despite a $35 billion investment deal signed with the United Arab Emirates in February and an $8 billion IMF agreement in
May 22, 2024
South Africa's election on May 29 could bring momentous change, with polls suggesting the ruling African National Congress is likely to lose its majority after 30 years in
May 22, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described as "treasonous" a campaign ad by an opposition party that depicts a burning national flag, as antagonism
May 22, 2024
Rescue teams are continuing to search for dozens of construction workers who are believed to be buried in the rubble of an unfinished five-story apartment building that collapsed in South Africa on Monday
May 08, 2024
Kenya’s President William Ruto has declared Friday a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died due to ongoing flooding
May 08, 2024
Moses Malala, a 34-year-old construction worker who escaped the wreckage of a five-storey building in George, South Africa,
May 22, 2024
Families of the victims of last week's bombings at two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo, which killed at least sixteen people, have mourned their loved ones at a ceremony in the city of Goma
May 08, 2024
An alliance of South African opposition parties can win a May 29 election and would bring significant change after 30 years of African National Congress (
July 02, 2024
Nigerian authorities on Wednesday denied allegations from Binance's CEO of soliciting bribes, saying the claim was a "diversionary tactic" and an "act of blackmail"
May 22, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it had reached a staff-level agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo on the final review of a $1.5 billion loan
May 22, 2024
Microsoft is closing down its Africa Development Centre in the continent's most populous nation Nigeria, which will lead to job losses, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
May 22, 2024
Ghana's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that lawyers battling over the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ bill must amend their motions due to insulting language
May 24, 2024
Kenya's public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months
May 08, 2024
South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), fighting to extend its 30-year grip on power in elections this month, would like to cast the
July 02, 2024
Tensions in Tunisia have ratcheted up as demonstrators seeking better rights for migrants staged a sit-in before European Union headquarters, capping a week in which Tunisian authorities targeted migrant communities from the coast to the capital with arrests and the demolition of tent camps
May 09, 2024
Relatives of 44 construction workers trapped under a collapsed building in the South African city of George faced a fourth day of anguished waiting on Thursday as heavy
May 24, 2024
A plane with dozens of passengers skidded off a runway before takeoff at Senegal's main airport on Thursday, injuring at least 10 people and
July 02, 2024
Egypt's foreign debt climbed by $3.5 billion in the three months to the end of December, according to central bank data released on Thursday.
May 23, 2024
Senegal’s transport minister says a Boeing 737 carrying 85 people caught fire and skidded off a runway at an airport near the capital and 10 people were injured
May 09, 2024
Somalia's government has requested the termination of a U.N. political mission that has advised it on peace-building, security reforms and
May 25, 2024A Nigerian investigative journalist has spent more than a week in police detention without being brought to court for allegedly violating the country's cybercrime laws, his employer
May 24, 2024Chad's state election body said on Thursday interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the May 6 presidential election outright with over 61%
July 02, 2024
Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election
May 09, 2024
Zimbabwe will fine businesses using inflated exchange rates as the government battles to maintain the value of its newly introduced gold-backed currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG).
May 25, 2024
Greece will start bringing in workers from Egypt this summer to take on temporary farming jobs under a deal between the countries to tackle a labour shortage, the migration ministry
May 25, 2024
Floods in South Kivu and Tanganyika provinces in eastern Congo have hit nearly half a million people, creating food shortages, displacements and risk of diseases, according to a World Food Program report released Wednesday
May 10, 2024A number of people were hurt in Chad, some severely, in gunfire celebrating interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby's declared election
May 26, 2024Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.
May 25, 2024
South Africa's top court began hearing legal arguments on Friday on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can run for parliament, a case whose
May 25, 2024
Gunmen have abducted at least nine students from a school in northern Nigeria's Kogi State
May 10, 2024At least nine students were kidnapped from their classrooms by gunmen at a university in Nigeria's northern state of Kogi, the state government said on Friday, as
May 26, 2024When Mory Cisse dropped his 27-year-old brother off at a stadium in the southeastern Guinean city of Nzerekore to watch a soccer match after lunch on Sunday, he had
December 03, 2024
Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp has been struck by shelling from the Rapid Support Forces, volunteers and medical aid agency MSF said, as the paramilitary group
December 03, 2024
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Participants in Mali's national dialogue on Friday recommended extending the military-led transition to democracy by three years and allowing junta leader Assimi Goita to stand in
May 27, 2024
Winnie Makinda says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government’s response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital of Nairobi
May 11, 2024
A man was rescued from the rubble five days after a deadly building collapse in South Africa in what Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said was "nothing short of a miracle".
May 27, 2024
Joe Biden pledged lasting U.S. engagement with Africa as he met his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco in Luanda on Tuesday, as part of his first
December 03, 2024
More than 100 people were kidnapped by gunmen during Friday night raids on three villages in northwest Nigeria, a district head and residents said on
May 27, 2024Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia's ruling SWAPO party has been elected president and will be the country's first female leader, results released by the
December 03, 2024
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Tunisian capital on Sunday to demand the release of imprisoned journalists, activists and opposition figures, and the setting of a date for
July 02, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were on Sunday treated to street-style dances in Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos, where they unveiled a partnership between their Archewell Foundation
May 27, 2024
Authorities say that anti-government rebels in the Central African Republic have carried out an attack in a village known for gold mining
May 12, 2024Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display during Prince Harry and Meghan's visit to the country's largest city, Lagos
May 12, 2024
Nigerian security forces have rescued students kidnapped from a university in northern Kogi state, along with other victims held by the abductors, the army and state
May 28, 2024Egypt on Sunday said it would intervene in support of South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, citing the growing scale of Israel's operations in
May 27, 2024
South Africans will vote in a national election on May 29 with an unprecedented sense of uncertainty about the outcome, as polls suggest the African National Congress will
May 28, 2024
Rescue teams in South Africa are searching for any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed
May 13, 2024
Chadian opposition leader Succes Masra has lodged a legal appeal with the country's constitutional council to challenge the preliminary result of the Central African nation's May
May 28, 2024
Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali
May 13, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor extended on Monday the detention of two journalists, while lawyers began a one-day strike to protest against the arrest of a prominent critic of the
May 28, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday rejected opposition allegations that a recent pause in the electricity cuts that have
May 28, 2024
Gunmen who abducted 105 people in northwest Nigeria last week are not after ransom payments but negotiations with the Zamfara state government, five families of the
May 28, 2024Tunisian police stormed the bar association's headquarters for the second time in two days and arrested a lawyer, witnesses said on Monday, after detaining two journalists as well as
May 28, 2024
A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record
May 14, 2024
Sean Penn has blasted the organizers of the Oscars of being cowards who, in effect, limit the kind of films that can be funded and made
December 03, 2024
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday that Turkey decided to submit its declaration of official intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the
May 29, 2024
South Africa's unemployment rate rose for the second quarter in a row to 32.9% in the first three months of this year, data showed on Tuesday, two weeks before the
May 29, 2024
Rescuers have pulled four people out of the rubble of a collapsed building in the Mathare neighbourhood of Kenya's capital on Tuesday, but more people were likely trapped, the
July 02, 2024
The death toll from a building collapse in the South African city of George last week edged up to 33 on Tuesday, as rescuers continued to comb through the rubble with 19
May 29, 2024
South Africa's main opposition party, joined by some labour and business groups, said on Tuesday it would go to court to fight a bill aimed at providing
May 29, 2024South Africa's most competitive election since the advent of democracy could provide opportunities for new political party Rise Mzansi to make innovative
May 29, 2024
Three Libyan fighters of a military force based in Tripoli were killed in clashes with smugglers and drug dealers in the desert near the border with Algeria, the force said in a
May 29, 2024After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time
May 15, 2024
Morocco has grown its automotive industry from virtually non-existent to Africa’s largest in less than two decades
May 15, 2024
More than half of Zimbabwe's population will need food aid this year following a devastating drought that led to widespread crop failure as humanitarian
May 30, 2024
A landslide that followed heavy rain in central Kenya has swept away at least five people, residents said on Wednesday, and the Red Cross said its
July 02, 2024
Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity for his role in murder, torture and other repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator
May 15, 2024
A Swiss court on Wednesday convicted a former government minister from Gambia of crimes against humanity under ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh and jailed him for 20 years, in a historic
May 30, 2024The last two suspects sought by a U.N. tribunal over their alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide died in 1998, the U.N. war crimes prosecutor tasked with finding them said on
May 30, 2024At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning, resulting in an explosion, the police said
May 15, 2024Nigeria's headline consumer inflation accelerated to a new 28-year high in April, hitting 33.69% year-on-year, up from 33.20% in March, statistics agency data
May 30, 2024
A Tunisian judge on Wednesday ordered the imprisonment of two prominent journalists pending trial, their families and lawyers said, reinforcing fears of a widespread campaign aimed
May 30, 2024Human Rights Watch says an Islamist group operating in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province used boys as young as 13 in attacks on a town last week
May 15, 2024South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law on Wednesday a bill that aims to provide universal health coverage, hailing it as a
May 30, 2024
The United States Treasury said in a statement on Wednesday that it has imposed sanctions on two top commanders of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following attacks in
May 30, 2024Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as authorities continued a wave of arrests targeting perceived critics of President Kais Saied's government
May 15, 2024
The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine, disease and fighting “closing in” and no end in sight, the top U.N. humanitarian official in the war-torn country says
May 15, 2024Tunisia's interior ministry on Thursday dismissed accusations by lawyers and a rights group that police officers had tortured a detained attorney who collapsed in court.
May 31, 2024South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to order a cease-fire in Gaza during hearings over emergency measures to halt Israel’s military operation in the enclave’s southern city of Rafah
May 16, 2024
Chad's constitutional council confirmed Mahamat Idriss Deby as winner of the May 6 presidential election on Thursday after dismissing challenges by two losing
July 02, 2024
Dubai's Emirates airline will resume flight schedules to Nigeria from Oct. 1, it said on Thursday, ending a close to two-year halt to flights.
May 31, 2024
Tunisian lawyers began a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday, with hundreds taking to the streets of the capital, to protest against the recent arrest of two of their colleagues,
May 31, 2024
Residents are fleeing missile fire and sheltering without food and water amid escalating fighting in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir,
May 31, 2024LATAM Airlines will increase the frequency of seven of its international routes connecting Brazil to the United States and countries in Europe and Africa, it
May 31, 2024
Families huddled near the line of small coffins in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all mourning the children and others killed
May 31, 2024
A Nigerian rights group has launched a petition to stop plans by religious leaders and a state lawmaker to push 100 girls and young women into marriage in a mass ceremony next week,
May 31, 2024The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups have signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya, described as key step in efforts to end the conflict in South Sudan that has long crippled its economy
May 16, 2024
Kenyan lawyers have moved to block the country's planned deployment of police to Haiti, a court filing showed, days before officers are expected to arrive in the Caribbean nation to
June 03, 2024Senegal's prime minister Ousmane Sonko raised the possibility of closing French military bases in the West African country on Thursday in a wide-ranging speech that also touched on
June 02, 2024
South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid 30 years ago
May 17, 2024
Ghana's parliament, which had been adjourned since March following a dispute between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, reconvened on
June 03, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief said on Friday he was "horrified" by escalating violence near Sudan's al-Fashir and held discussions this week with commanders from both sides of the
June 02, 2024Officials in the South African city of George halted the search for survivors and more bodies on Friday at the site of a collapsed building where 33 people died.
June 03, 2024
Senegal’s new prime minister has criticized the French military presence in the West African country
May 17, 2024
U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich country’s difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves
May 17, 2024About 23 migrants were missing after setting off in a boat from Tunisia towards Italy, the country's national guard said on Saturday.
June 03, 2024Freedoms in Tunisia are being threatened under the rule of President Kais Saied and the authorities are using the judiciary and police to punish their opponents, 10 local rights
June 03, 2024
Libya's eastern-based authorities are investigating the disappearance of a member of parliament, the region's interior ministry said, and it did not believe he had been killed.
June 03, 2024Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after their vessel sunk off the coast of Cape Town, the fisheries
June 03, 2024At least one person was killed and six injured when fierce clashes broke out on Saturday in the city of Zawiya in western Libya, prompting calls for a ceasefire to rescue families
June 03, 2024Former South African President Jacob Zuma has lamented the high levels of poverty among black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle crime as he launched his new political party’s manifesto ahead of the country’s much anticipated elections
May 18, 2024
South Africa's new uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party is aiming to win a parliamentary majority in a May 29 election so that it can
June 04, 2024
Tunisia recovered the bodies of four migrants off the country's coast on Saturday, the national guard said, amid an increase in migrant boats heading from Tunisia toward Italy in
June 04, 2024Hundreds of anti-migrant protestors have marched through the streets of a Tunisian town where many migrants are living while waiting to try and travel by boat to Europe
May 18, 2024
Congo’s army says it has foiled a coup attempt and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners
May 19, 2024
The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American
July 02, 2024
Uganda's military has captured a commander of an Islamic State-allied rebel group who is an expert in making improvised explosive devices, or bombs, that the group has used to
June 04, 2024
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in support of President Kais Saied amid widespread criticism at home and abroad after a wave of arrests that included journalists,
June 04, 2024
Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be
June 04, 2024
American and Nigerien defense officials say U.S. troops ordered out of Niger by its ruling junta will complete their withdrawal from the West African country by the middle of September
May 19, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been disqualified from running for a seat in Parliament in next week's national election because of a previous criminal conviction
May 20, 2024
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is barred from running for parliament in this month's election, the country's top court ruled on Monday, a
June 04, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in next week’s national election over a previous criminal conviction, the latest twist in his return to politics
May 20, 2024
A Nigerian judge denied separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu bail for the second time in two months on Monday and also dismissed his application to be moved to prison from
June 04, 2024
Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress has risen in the weeks leading up to this month's election, a tracking poll showed,
June 04, 2024
Security forces thwarted a coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday in which armed men targeted the homes of top officials and briefly occupied the office of the
June 05, 2024
Gunmen in Cameroon killed a local mayor and two others in the restive North West region as the nation observed its National Day on Monday, the regional
June 04, 2024Authorities in Congo are accusing three Americans of involvement in a brazen weekend attack on Congo’s presidential palace
May 20, 2024
Nigeria's army says it has rescued hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, who had been held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in the country's northeast
May 21, 2024
Nigeria's central bank delivered another big interest rate hike on Tuesday, responding to a continued rise in inflation
June 05, 2024
At least 22 people kidnapped by gunmen from the suburban Dawaki district of Abuja, Nigeria's capital, were rescued, police and residents said on Tuesday.
June 05, 2024At least 40 people were killed and many others wounded in an attack by gunmen on Zurak village in Nigeria's north-central Plateau state, where clashes between
June 05, 2024An unknown disease killed 143 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's southwestern province in November, local authorities told Reuters.
December 03, 2024
South Africa’s African National Congress rose above politics for years
May 22, 2024
OPEC oil output rose for a second month in November as Libya's production recovered after resolution of a political crisis, a Reuters survey found, though members
December 03, 2024
Kenya’s William Ruto will meet President Joe Biden during a rare US state visit from an African leader − and one that comes as Haiti’s crisis spirals.
May 22, 2024
President Joe Biden has welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House to kick off a three-day state visit
May 22, 2024
The U.N.
June 06, 2024
Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's
June 06, 2024
A Nigerian court has adjourned a tax evasion case against Binance to next month for possible arraignment of the cryptocurrency exchange and two of its executives
June 06, 2024
Chad's prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has tendered his resignation after interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby was confirmed as a winner of the May 6
June 06, 2024
From Brazil, Nigeria and Turkey to even some of the riskiest emerging markets such as Egypt and Zambia, evidence is growing that a decade-long deterioration in
June 06, 2024
South Africa's May 29 election looks set to be the most tightly contested since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting that the governing African National
June 06, 2024
President Joe Biden on Tuesday toured a slavery museum in Angola and inspected shackles and a whip, and he spoke of “our nation’s original sin."
December 03, 2024
Biden acknowledges horrific history of slavery that has connected the US and Angola while projecting optimism for future ties
December 03, 2024
South Africa's small Muslim political party Al Jama-ah is gaining support due to the conflict in Gaza and sees itself as a potential coalition partner for the
June 06, 2024
A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced two journalists to one year in prison on charges of publishing false news that harms public security, a judicial official said, amid growing
June 07, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo's national assembly elected Vital Kamerhe, whose home was violently attacked on Sunday, as speaker in a delayed vote, a key step towards
June 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has offered his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti
May 23, 2024
The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency
May 23, 2024
Eleven people including three foreigners were killed in an accident on Thursday at a major sugar factory in Tanzania, police said.
June 08, 2024In Nelson Mandela's hometown of Qunu there has been no running water since 2016, jobs are scarce and crime is on the rise as
June 07, 2024
Chad's newly elected President Mahamat Idriss Deby was sworn in to succeed his late father on Thursday, after three years as an interim leader under military
June 07, 2024
Chad has sworn in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections earlier this month, completing a disputed transition to democratic rule after he seized power three years ago
May 23, 2024
The European Union's anti-piracy force in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, Operation Atalanta, on Thursday flagged a possible pirate attack on the Liberian-flagged merchant vessel
June 08, 2024The deployment of the first Kenyan police officers to Haiti to lead an international anti-gang force has been delayed after a planned flight from Nairobi was postponed
June 09, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has criticized the country’s highest court and his former allies in the ruling African National Congress over his disqualification from next week’s election
May 23, 2024
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that he will fight for his rights, after the country's top court ruled that he was not eligible
June 08, 2024
The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of human-caused climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday
May 24, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has announced the formation of a new partnership to help provide internet access to 80% of Africa by 2030, up from 40% now
May 24, 2024
The International Court of Justice today delivered its Order on the request for the modification and the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa on 10 May 2024 in the
June 10, 2024
South Africa's government on Friday hailed as ground-breaking a ruling by the World Court that ordered Israel to halt its military
June 10, 2024
South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) will try to form a governing coalition that excludes the African National Congress should the ruling party lose its
June 10, 2024
Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in a camp in the Sudanese city of al-Fashir, activists said, after a raid by Rapid Support Forces paramilitary forces who are fighting to
June 10, 2024South Africans vote in national and provincial elections on May 29 with opinion polls suggesting the governing African National Congress will lose its
June 12, 2024
The European Union's anti-piracy force in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea said on Friday the Liberian-flagged merchant vessel Basilisk had been freed from suspected pirates off the
June 10, 2024BHP's resolve to add more copper to its portfolio will be tested by Anglo American investors' demands for a simpler offer for the whole
June 10, 2024
The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt
May 25, 2024
The U.S. and Kenya will hold a new round of trade talks next month, they said on Friday, as the two countries tout new business deals and look to boost
June 10, 2024
The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time
May 25, 2024
South Africa’s four main political parties have begun a final weekend of campaigning before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in 30 years
May 25, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed on Saturday to do more on issues including jobs and state welfare as he campaigned
June 11, 2024
At least five people were killed and several others were missing after an informal gold mine collapsed in northern Kenya, officials and local media said.
June 11, 2024Burkina Faso's ruling junta will remain in power for another five years after participants in national talks on Saturday proposed extending the transition back to democracy by 60 months
June 11, 2024
Zimbabwe introduced the world's newest currency in April with public rallies and commercial jingles
May 26, 2024
South Africans will vote on Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, joblessness and corruption threatening to end the dominance of the African National
June 12, 2024
An international aid group says more than two weeks of fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group over a major city in the western Darfur region killed at least 123 people
May 26, 2024Over 20 civilians were killed in an attack in central Mali on Saturday, a local official said on Sunday.
June 11, 2024Comoros President Azali Assoumani pledged on Sunday to work for peace and rapidly grow the economy as he was sworn in for his fourth term in office, following a tense January
June 11, 2024
South Africa’s main opposition party Democratic Alliance has made its final call to South Africans to help it unseat the ruling African National Congress
May 26, 2024
Nigeria’s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country’s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and power systems
May 27, 2024
South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country takes its most significant political step since it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy 30 years ago
May 27, 2024
South Africa's Julius Malema, who quit the ruling African National Congress to form a radical leftist party, could potentially become a kingmaker or even deputy
June 13, 2024
South Africa's election this week could present a golden opportunity for the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) and its leader John Steenhuisen if the ruling
June 14, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is the wild card in Wednesday’s election for Africa’s most advanced country
May 27, 2024
Hundreds of people have fled their villages in a rural community in northwestern Nigeria after weekend attacks by armed groups left 10 dead and at least
June 12, 2024An Egyptian court sentenced former presidential hopeful Ahmed Tantawy on Monday to one year in prison with labour on charges of forging election documents, and barred
June 12, 2024
Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat
May 28, 2024
Tehran is supplying weapons to the Sudanese Armed Forces as they fight a paramilitary group for control of the nation.
May 28, 2024
Poland's top diplomat says that Congo has released a Polish man who was sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges
May 28, 2024
South African opposition parties are making a final appeal to voters as the country faces the possibility of a landmark change in its young democracy
May 28, 2024
Egypt will host a conference next month bringing together Sudan's civilian political groups with other regional and global parties, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
June 13, 2024Medical experts have been sent to southwestern Congo after a mystery disease killed dozens of people over two weeks, authorities said
December 03, 2024The body of a five-month-old baby was found on Tuesday when some 85 migrants heading for Italy from Tunisia were rescued from distress at sea, according to a Reuters
June 12, 2024Six years after South Africa's scandal-plagued former president Jacob Zuma was pushed out of office, he is backing a new party against his
June 14, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up the image of the ruling African National Congress,
June 14, 2024
China's flagship economic cooperation program is bouncing back after a lull during the global pandemic, with Africa a primary focus,
June 13, 2024
Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are still negotiating contracts for the massive Ras El Hekma development project on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, a prominent
June 13, 2024Religious leaders and a state lawmaker suspended their plans for a mass wedding of 100 girls and young women in northwest Nigeria after it sparked
June 13, 2024Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has settled around 42% in the days leading up to Wednesday's election
June 13, 2024
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe is set to become president of the council of ministers, a position introduced by the new constitution, which will allow him to extend his 19-year-old
June 13, 2024
South Africans have voted in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years
May 28, 2024
South Africans voted on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, amid high turnout and with opinion
July 02, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo has appointed a new government, spokesperson Tina Salama said in the early hours of Wednesday, ending an impasse that has mired the country in
June 13, 2024
South Africans vote in national and provincial elections on May 29 that polls suggest could loosen the African National Congress' 30-year grip on power.
June 12, 2024
South Africans started voting on Wednesday in an election that could mark a big political shift if the governing African National Congress party loses its majority as opinion
June 12, 2024
Australian mining giant BHP Group has pledged to invest in South Africa's economy as it seeks support for a 38.6 billion pound ($49.3 billion) bid to acquire Anglo American, which was founded in the country more than a century ago and remains one of its biggest employers
May 29, 2024
South Africans have voted in a national election that could be the country’s most hotly contested in 30 years
May 29, 2024
Sudan's army on Wednesday rejected a call to return to peace talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following a conversation between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and U.S.
June 13, 2024
Nigeria has adopted a new national anthem reintroduced nearly a half-century ago after it was dropped for the current one
May 29, 2024
The long queues of voters recalled South Africa's 1994 ballot that ended white minority rule and ushered in democracy, but for many, gratitude to the ruling
June 14, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed a bill switching back to a national anthem composed by a British expatriate and adopted at independence, a move some
June 28, 2024
By Reade Levinson and David Lewis Gold smuggling out of Africa, mainly to the United Arab Emirates, has surged over the last decade, with hundreds of tonnes of gold worth tens of billions of dollars
June 13, 2024
Partial results in South Africa’s national election have put the long-ruling African National Congress at less than 50% of the vote
May 30, 2024
Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to vote in Wednesday’s national election
May 30, 2024
South Africa's currency, stocks and bonds fell on Thursday amid political uncertainty after election projections showed the African
June 15, 2024
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Central African Republic companies linked to Russia's Wagner mercenary group and to illicit mining activities, the
June 14, 2024
Days after miner BHP launched its takeover bid for rival Anglo American in April, the CEOs of both headed for South Africa, where a
June 14, 2024
The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the possibility of no outright winner
May 30, 2024
Algeria's proposed draft U.N.
June 15, 2024
Benin President Patrice Talon said Niger has not responded to his country's concerns and his Nigerien counterpart did not meet with Benin's mining minister on a visit this week
June 17, 2024
South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority
May 31, 2024
A toddler in the West African country of Ghana has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist
May 31, 2024
For the first time in South Africa's democratic era, the African National Congress (ANC) will have to seek one or more coalition partners to
July 02, 2024
Partial results from South Africa's parliamentary election reappared on the electoral commission's website on Friday after roughly two hours during which the results page went blank
June 17, 2024
A top official in South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) backed President Cyril Ramaphosa despite a dismal result in this week's
June 17, 2024
Armed men killed at least six civilians and five troops in an attack in Nigeria's southeastern Abia state, the military said on Friday, prompting the state government
June 18, 2024The people of Sudan are at "imminent risk of famine", United Nations agencies said on Friday, more than a year into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
June 17, 2024
With South Africa's ruling party on track to get about 42% of the vote in the national election, the anger in its heartland coal-mining belt gives a hint
June 17, 2024
The Nigerian military says militants enforcing a separatist lockdown in the country's southeast attacked and killed five soldiers deployed to restore order
May 31, 2024
South Sudan has received its first batch of a new malaria vaccine from the World Health Organization, an important step in efforts to battle a disease that is the biggest killer of children in this African country
May 31, 2024Zambia’s former first lady and one of her daughters have been arrested over their ownership of several properties worth more than $2 million that a law enforcement agency says are suspected to be proceeds of crime
May 31, 2024One South African soldier was killed and 13 others where injured in a battle with Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the South African National
June 18, 2024Nigeria's main labour unions on Friday said they had declared an indefinite strike from Monday after failing to agree a new minimum wage with the government.
June 18, 2024South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will be badly weakened after presiding over the African National Congress (ANC) party's worst election result
June 17, 2024
The biggest winner in South Africa's election this week may be former President Jacob Zuma, whose newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party
June 17, 2024
South Africans angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed support for the African National Congress (ANC) to 40% in this
July 02, 2024
The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago
June 01, 2024
The prospect of South Africa's first coalition government of the post-apartheid era is likely to keep markets jittery for
June 18, 2024
Military forces from the United States and nearly three dozen countries have wrapped up the largest annual joint training exercise in Africa after two weeks in Tunisia, Ghana, Senegal and Morocco
June 01, 2024
Prosecutors in Central African Republic say they have detained a European employee of a U.S.-based non-governmental organisation on suspicion of being a threat to state security and
June 18, 2024Looking out of his window at Cape Town's False Bay, Nick Searra acknowledges that things do work better in South Africa's second biggest city, a
June 18, 2024
It was a historic day for South Africa
June 01, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for his country's political parties to overcome their differences and find “common ground” to form the first national coalition government in its young democracy
June 02, 2024
President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africa's political parties to work together for the good of the country
July 02, 2024
South Africa's ruling African National Congress Secretary General Fikile Mbalula said on Sunday that there was nothing to celebrate after the party lost its controlling
June 18, 2024
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) won 159 out of 400 seats in the country's National Assembly after last week's general election, the electoral commission
June 18, 2024
South Africa’s election has decided little, other than the African National Congress that liberated the country from apartheid in 1994 has lost its 30-year majority
June 02, 2024
Planning Minister Hala al-Saeed predicted Egypt's economy would grow by 2.9% or 3% in the financial year to end-June before accelerating to 4.2% in 2024/25, according to a ministry
June 18, 2024
South Africa was on tenterhooks on Monday for the African National Congress to signal whom it will choose as a partner to govern the nation
July 02, 2024
Africa’s most populous country has ground to a halt as Nigeria’s largest labor unions begin striking to demand a salary increase amid the worst cost of living crisis in decades
June 03, 2024
Somalia will expel thousands of Ethiopian troops stationed in the country to help with security by the end of the year unless Addis Ababa scraps a disputed
June 19, 2024
Uganda's sexual minorities face escalating human rights violations, with over 1000 cases recorded in the last nine months involving arrests, torture and house evictions among
June 19, 2024
Algeria wants to lure more visitors to the cultural and scenic treasures of Africa's largest country, shedding its status as a tourism backwater and
June 19, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and the leaders of African countries agreed on Tuesday to forge deeper trade and business cooperation and launched a
July 02, 2024
South Korea's president says his country will expand development aid to Africa and pursue deeper cooperation with the region of 1.3 billion people on critical minerals and technology
June 04, 2024
The African National Congress was holding high-stakes internal talks on Tuesday about which parties it should approach to form South Africa's next government,
June 20, 2024
A storm ripped through the South African coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal on Monday, killing at least 11 people and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, local officials said
June 20, 2024A clobbering for South Africa's, Mexico's and even India's heavyweight markets in recent days has proved without doubt that politics can still deliver an unexpected
June 21, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Group of 20 bloc has sufficient “shock absorbers” to function effectively if a Donald Trump administration promotes an America First policy at the expense of international cooperation
December 03, 2024
South African private sector activity grew in May as new order volumes stabilised and business confidence improved, a survey showed on Wednesday.
June 21, 2024
A quadrupling of the price of subsidised bread has made it harder than ever for Gamal Ahmad and millions of other Egyptians to get by.
June 21, 2024
South Africa's economy unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter of this year as a drought caused a big drop in agricultural production, but analysts said they
December 03, 2024
Election results in Mexico, South Africa and India jolted currencies and stocks alike, a stark reminder that politics still matter for markets in a
June 21, 2024
Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the west African country boost its defence capabilities and fight terrorism, Russian state
June 21, 2024
The African National Congress is leaning towards trying to form a government of national unity for South Africa, it said on Wednesday, but
June 21, 2024
In the months leading up to Kenya's deployment of police officers to Haiti, President William Ruto has consulted political advisers, security officials and foreign
June 21, 2024
Cape Verde's President Jose Maria Neves said the rise of right-wing populism has made it difficult to hold a serious debate over colonial reparations but argued
June 21, 2024
South Africa is in a moment of deep soul-searching after an election that brought a jarring split from the African National Congress party
June 06, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is meeting with senior officials of the African National Congress to decide how to go about forming a government after the party lost its 30-year grip on power and left a post-election deadlock
June 06, 2024
South Africa's African National Congress will invite other political parties to form a national unity government, its leader President Cyril
June 24, 2024
Spain has requested to intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel's actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares
June 23, 2024
Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed
June 25, 2024
Sudan's army said on Thursday it would deliver a "harsh response" to an attack a day earlier on a village by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that pro-democracy
June 24, 2024Egypt will take its biggest ever delegation to the Paris Olympics with the hope of exceeding its record medal haul from three years ago and continue to build its
June 23, 2024
Sinah Molokwane, a lifelong member of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, is struggling to accept that her
July 02, 2024
The U.N. says a fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo has destroyed around 50 makeshift tents, leaving dozens of families without shelter
June 06, 2024
Officials and resistance movements in Sudan say clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army in Gezira province early Wednesday morning killed at least 100 people and injured dozens
June 06, 2024
South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) will invite other political parties to form a government of national unity, its leader Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after a
June 24, 2024
South African opposition parties are meeting and will continue crunch talks into next week to consider the ruling African National Congress’ offer to become part of a government of national unity
June 07, 2024
The military trial of 51 suspects, including three Americans, accused of being involved in a coup attempt in Congo last month has opened in the country's capital of Kinshasa
June 07, 2024
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday cast President Vladimir Putin as "my dear brother" and said Russia was a consistent ally of Zimbabwe.
June 25, 2024
South African opposition parties said on Friday they were waiting for more details on a proposal by the African National Congress to form a
June 25, 2024
Refugees from Sudan's civil war who fled into neighbouring Ethiopia say they have been forced to move on again and take shelter in a forest and on roadsides after
June 25, 2024
The number of people internally displaced in Sudan due to conflict could soon exceed 10 million, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday, in the world's largest
June 25, 2024
Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko who is wanted in the United States for allegedly paying bribes to Ghanaian officials on Friday won part of his appeal, but still faces
June 24, 2024At the bus station in Agadez, a town in northern Niger that serves as a gateway to the Sahara, a dozen men – their faces
June 24, 2024
Another body was spotted off the coast of Libya on Saturday, a day after a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rescue ship recovered the bodies of 11 migrants in the same area of the
June 25, 2024
More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged
June 25, 2024
A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings has been tenderly laid on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and shed blood
June 07, 2024
Police in Comoros detained two women on Saturday on charges of engaging in same-sex sexual activity after they asked an Islamic preacher to marry them, a public
June 25, 2024Suspected Islamist rebels killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on villages in eastern Democratic
June 25, 2024The death toll has risen to 41 following an attack on Friday by suspected Islamist rebels on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a
June 25, 2024
The death toll has risen to 41 following an attack on Friday by suspected Islamist rebels on
June 26, 2024
The main hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir city has been attacked by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the
June 25, 2024
A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday.
June 26, 2024At least 50 people were killed and an unspecified number kidnapped, including women and children, when gunmen attacked the village of Yargoje in northwest Nigeria at
June 26, 2024A Palestinian chef using ancient cooking techniques, a Senegalese restaurant in New Orleans and an upscale Thai restaurant in Oregon have won coveted James Beard Awards
June 10, 2024
The U.N. migration agency tells The Associated Press that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million as war drives many from their homes
June 10, 2024
Malawi's president says soldiers are searching mountainous forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country’s vice president and a former first lady went missing in the area
June 10, 2024
Search and rescue operations will continue until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi's vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is found, the southern African
June 26, 2024
Amnesty International on Monday accused the Nigerian army of illegally detaining girls and young women who have escaped from Boko Haram captivity because the military
June 26, 2024
Thirty-eight migrants coming from the Horn of Africa were killed after their boat capsized off Yemen's Aden, a local official and witnesses said on Monday.
June 26, 2024The bodies of two three-year-old boys were among those pulled from mud in eastern Uganda, swelling to 28 the death toll from a landslide last week that buried several villages,
December 03, 2024
Nigerian fisherman Modu Umar has hardly slept for two weeks, torn between staying in his Baga community or fleeing after Islamist militants
June 26, 2024Cocoa farmer Joseph Arkoh's vote in Saturday's election in Ghana hinges on one unlikely issue: fertiliser.
December 03, 2024
Malawi’s president says the vice president and nine others have died in a plane crash
June 11, 2024
Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed when the military plane they were
June 27, 2024
Kenya has reached a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, the organisation said, paving the way for the
June 26, 2024Talks to forge South Africa's post-election unity government will need to bring together parties with goals as contradictory as seizing white-owned farms and
June 26, 2024
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is appealing for information and evidence of atrocities in Sudan’s western Darfur region
June 11, 2024
Production has started at Senegal's first offshore oil project
June 11, 2024Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households
June 11, 2024The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city
June 27, 2024Former South African president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party has applied to the country's top court to block the newly elected
June 27, 2024
Tunisian border guards have rounded up migrants and passed them to counterparts in Libya where they have faced forced labour, extortion, torture and killing,
June 27, 2024
Parts of Sudan are in famine, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, adding that the extent of extreme hunger remained unclear nearly 14 months into a war
June 27, 2024
A Zimbabwean High Court judge has ruled that provisions of a law that deny abortion services to women raped by their husbands and girls under the age of 18 are unconstitutional
December 03, 2024
Congo's president says a boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a river near Congo’s capital of Kinshasa, leaving more than 80 dead
June 12, 2024
A new report has for the first time found traces of highly potent opioids known as nitazenes in drugs consumed in Africa’s retail drug market
June 12, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Thursday on a British-drafted resolution that demands a halt to the siege of al-Fashir in Sudan's North Dafur region
June 28, 2024
Interior ministers from Libya and Tunisia said on Wednesday they had agreed to partially reopen the border crossing at Ras Jdir on Thursday morning, and to fully reopen it on June
June 28, 2024An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of
June 28, 2024
More than 80 people have been killed in a boat accident on the River Kwa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Wednesday.
June 28, 2024Mass starvation is a "very real risk" in some regions of war-torn Sudan, where conflict has made medical aid broadly unavailable, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said
June 28, 2024
A top official with South Africa’s African National Congress party says it has a broad agreement with the main opposition and other parties to form a coalition government
June 13, 2024
South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease
June 13, 2024
The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control
June 13, 2024
South Africa's African National Congress said late on Thursday that several other parties had agreed to join it in a unity government but the
June 28, 2024
Ghana and its bondholders will restart talks next week to hash out a debt restructuring deal on $13
June 28, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday demanded a halt to the siege of al-Fashir - a city of 1.8 million people in Sudan's North Darfur region -
June 28, 2024
An estimated 756,000 people in Sudan could face catastrophic food shortages by September, according to a preliminary projection used by United
June 28, 2024
A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday, before being killed in a shootout with other officers, the judiciary said.
June 28, 2024At least 22 artisanal gold miners died in southern Mali on Saturday after the shaft they were working in collapsed, the general secretary of the miners'
June 28, 2024At least 42 people were killed by suspected Islamist rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, two officials from the local
June 28, 2024The United Nations envoy charged with reporting on violations against children in conflicts around the world says that first and foremost she is worried about what’s happening to youngsters in war-torn Sudan
June 14, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected by lawmakers for a second term after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition and other parties
June 14, 2024
The highest court in Niger lifted the immunity of the country's democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum
June 14, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was nominated for re-election on Friday by a lawmaker from his African National Congress (ANC) party during parliament's first sitting
June 28, 2024
Islamic State on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
June 28, 2024The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work
June 28, 2024
Niger's ousted President Mohamed Bazoum has been stripped of his immunity by the State Court of Niamey, a move that signals the ruling junta will launch criminal proceedings against
June 28, 2024
Cyril Ramaphosa was set on Friday to be re-elected as South Africa's president, having brokered a deal with the opposition for a
June 28, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected for a second term, having won a majority of votes in the National Assembly, the chief justice said on Friday.
June 28, 2024
Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected South Africa's president on Friday, having brokered a deal with the opposition for a government of
June 28, 2024
For the first time since Nelson Mandela negotiated an end to white minority rule, former sworn enemies are coming together in South Africa under a pledge to
June 28, 2024
South Africa’s main political rivals are now partners in government after they came together in a last-ditch coalition deal that ensured President Cyril Ramaphosa was dramatically reelected with cross-party support
June 15, 2024
At least seven people have been killed in unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, local officials said on
June 28, 2024
South Africa's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party will join an alliance of smaller opposition parties in parliament in a bid to take on the African National Congress and Democratic
June 28, 2024
Al Qaeda affiliate Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) group has claimed responsibility for what it said was attack on June 11 that killed over 100 Burkina Faso soldiers in
June 28, 2024Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as South Africa's president on Friday with the support of once rival parties that have agreed to join his African National
June 28, 2024
Zimbabwe police have arrested opposition leader Jameson Timba and 80 youths for holding a political gathering which authorities said was
June 28, 2024Malawians gathered to mourn Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima amid heavy security on Monday, a day after people from his home district launched protests over the
July 01, 2024
The African National Congress said on Monday South Africa's new government has five parties in it so far, representing more than two thirds of the seats in the National
June 28, 2024
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin congratulated South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa on his re-election as president on Monday, reflecting continued good relations with Pretoria despite uncertainty
June 29, 2024
Hundreds of protesters have been arrested in Kenyan capital Nairobi in ongoing protests against proposed tax hikes in a finance bill that is due to be tabled in parliament
June 18, 2024
A Kenyan parliamentary panel recommended on Tuesday that the government scrap some new taxes proposed as part of next year's budget, as hundreds of protesters
July 01, 2024
An official says nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital
June 19, 2024A fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena triggered a series of blasts on Tuesday night, Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman
July 01, 2024A new report says there is mounting evidence that jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin
June 19, 2024
A weakened South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Wednesday that his new multi-party government would work to improve basic living
July 02, 2024
At least nine people were killed and more than 46 injured in blasts caused by a fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital on Tuesday night, health minister
July 02, 2024
Investors are optimistic South Africa's new unity government can deliver stable economic policies to revive growth, but are cautious about how the new
July 01, 2024
Egypt has carried out mass arrests and unlawful deportations of thousands of refugees fleeing the war in Sudan, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday.
July 01, 2024
South African inflation was stable in May, data showed on Wednesday, but analysts do not expect interest rate cuts any time soon as it remains above the
July 01, 2024
Namibia's central bank kept its main interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, responding to a slight uptick in inflation and protecting the local currency's peg to
July 01, 2024
The Greek-owned Tutor coal carrier attacked by Yemen's Houthi militants in the Red Sea last week has sunk, salvagers confirmed on Wednesday.
July 01, 2024
At least five people, including three women and a girl, were killed in the bombardment of a town in eastern Congo's North Kivu
July 02, 2024Separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu is willing to negotiate with the Nigerian government over his continued detention and trial on terrorism charges, his lawyer said on
July 02, 2024
Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in for a second term as South Africa's president in a ceremony in the administrative capital, Pretoria
June 19, 2024
Somalia's government is seeking to slow the withdrawal of African peacekeepers and warning of a potential security vacuum,
July 02, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has joined African leaders to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa
June 20, 2024
South Africa's rand slipped on Thursday, as investors turned cautious ahead of newly re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet appointments under a unity government.
July 02, 2024
Riot police in Nairobi fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of demonstrators on Thursday as coordinated marches took place
July 02, 2024
Spanish rescuers say that a cruise ship has rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a traditional fishing boat that was drifting off the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
June 20, 2024South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) suspended on Thursday a newly sworn-in member of parliament after an old video of him calling for the killing of
July 02, 2024Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore appeared on national TV on Thursday to deny reports of mutiny within the army following an attack by al Qaeda-linked insurgents that killed
June 20, 2024
The U.N.'s food agency says families in Sudan’s embattled western Darfur region have received an emergency increase in food aid that is needed to help avert looming famine
June 20, 2024
Thousands of mostly young people have demonstrated Kenya’s capital and across the country against new tax proposals in the government’s annual budget legislation
June 20, 2024
Ghana has reached an agreement in principle with its bondholders to restructure $13 billion worth of international debt, three sources told Reuters,
June 20, 2024
Barrick Gold said in a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday that allegations of human rights violations at its North Mara Gold Mine were "misdirected, unfounded"
June 20, 2024Kenya's police watchdog says it has begun an investigation into police conduct during protests against a government plan to impose new taxes
June 21, 2024
Zambian officials say a U.S. tourist has been killed by an elephant in the city of Livingstone, the second such attack in the country this year
June 21, 2024Nigerien military authorities have withdrawn the operating permit for a large uranium mine from the French company Orano
June 21, 2024
An alliance of political parties and civil society groups in junta-led Mali said several of their leaders were arrested on Thursday evening during a private meeting at a house
June 21, 2024One person was killed and at least 200 people injured across Kenya in Thursday's nationwide protests against government plans to raise $2.7
June 21, 2024
The International Criminal Court (ICC) published an arrest warrant on Friday against Iyad Ag Ghaly, the alleged leader of the Ansar Dine Islamist group which took over Timbuktu in
June 21, 2024
Nigeria's army has taken delivery of two "Huey" helicopters, a spokesperson said on Friday, to strengthen its ability to provide air cover for troops battling
June 21, 2024Two U.S. lawmakers have urged the United States embassy in Nigeria to seek the release of jailed Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan on humanitarian grounds because he is in poor
June 21, 2024
A high court in Namibia declared two colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex acts between men unconstitutional on Friday, in a landmark win for the LGBTQ
June 21, 2024
Ivory Coast health authorities have launched mobile enrollment centers for the country’s universal health coverage program
June 22, 2024
The Goma dance festival, the largest dance festival in Congo, has taken place each year for the past seven years, despite ongoing attacks by rebel groups
June 22, 2024
A militia killed at least 23 people in attacks on several villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's
June 22, 2024Egypt withdrew the operating licenses of 16 tourism companies and referred them to the public prosecutor, accusing them of being responsible for the deaths of Egyptian pilgrims in
June 22, 2024
A pipeline project built with China's support that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin
June 23, 2024
At least seven people were killed and 100 kidnapped on Saturday night when gunmen attacked a rural community in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina state,
June 23, 2024The South African rand slipped on Monday, as markets waited for President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce the cabinet lineup of his government of national unity.
July 03, 2024
The first Kenyan police officers assigned to tackle rampant gang violence in Haiti are leaving Kenya on Tuesday and are set to arrive this week, the
July 03, 2024
EU countries adopted sanctions against six people in Sudan on Monday over the war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has engulfed the
July 03, 2024The top U.S. general is making a rare trip to Africa to discuss ways to preserve some of the U.S. presence in West Africa after Niger decided to kick out the U.S.
July 03, 2024
Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday accused Ethiopian troops of making illegal incursions across their shared border, leading to confrontations
July 03, 2024Hassan Ya'u, a 42-year-old maize and sesame seed farmer in Nigeria's northern Katsina state, was tending to his crops early this month when
June 25, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Tuesday security was his "utmost priority" after protests against a bill to raise taxes
June 25, 2024
At an orphanage in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, more than 60 children stared at their plate of palm weevil larvae fried up in spices,
June 25, 2024
The South African rand weakened in volatile trade on Tuesday as comments from the two biggest parties in the unity government suggested a cabinet announcement by President
June 25, 2024
Thousands of protesters stormed Kenya’s parliament Tuesday to protest tax proposals, burning part of the building, sending lawmakers fleeing and drawing fire from police
June 25, 2024
As the U.S. military packs up what is left of its equipment and counter-terrorism personnel in Niger, American officials are warning it is becoming increasingly
June 25, 2024
Kenyan activist Auma Obama, the half-sister of former U.S.
June 25, 2024
The first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country that
June 25, 2024
Members of South Africa's uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party were sworn in as lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday after boycotting the first sitting of the National Assembly nearly two
June 25, 2024
The Kenya Red Cross said on Tuesday that its vehicles had been attacked in anti-tax demonstrations and staff and volunteers injured.
June 25, 2024
Kenya’s president came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a “hustler” and vowing relief from economic pain
June 25, 2024
Violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are growing in size and influence across Africa, fueling worries that as they improve their tactics, they could attack the U.S. or Western allies
June 25, 2024
Sick children across the country and in Africa are having their hospital stays brightened somewhat by the efforts of two young sisters from New Jersey, who make and donate brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for kids
June 26, 2024
The International Criminal Court has convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu
June 26, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday withdrew planned tax hikes, bowing to pressure from protesters who had stormed parliament, launched
June 26, 2024
Kenya's president says he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament on Tuesday
June 26, 2024
As John Aron headed out to join the protests raging outside parliament, he felt something huge had already shifted in Kenyan politics, jolting it away
June 26, 2024
South Africa's military said on Wednesday that a mortar attack on one of its bases in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo a day earlier had killed two people and injured 20
June 26, 2024South Africa expects the World Trade Organisation to set up adjudication panels in July to examine its two cases against the European Union over its phytosanitary measures for citrus
June 26, 2024
Twenty soldiers and a civilian were killed in an attack in western Niger next to the border with Burkina Faso, the west African country's defence ministry said.
June 26, 2024The United Nations on Wednesday flagged harmful new drug concoctions, named kush, Khadafi, and Monkey Tail, as posing particular health risks across Africa because of their varying
June 26, 2024Paramilitaries from Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have advanced on the southeastern trading hub of Sennar as they push to expand territorial gains more than 14 months into
June 26, 2024Kenya's President William Ruto on Wednesday declined to sign a highly contentious finance bill that has sparked nationwide deadly protests, and has sent it back to parliament for
June 26, 2024
The White House condemned on Wednesday the reported violence in Kenya, where medics said 23 people had died this week after violent clashes between police and protesters.
June 26, 2024
The decades-old conflict in Congo’s mineral-rich east has “drastically deteriorated” since early 2022 and gotten even worse since last October, with sharp increases in sexual violence, the number of wounded and child recruitment, the top Red Cross official in the country says
June 27, 2024
A climbdown by Kenya's president over plans to raise taxes brought no end to nationwide protests on Thursday, with at least two people
June 27, 2024
South Africa's consumer confidence improved slightly in the second quarter due to fewer hours of load-shedding and a drop in fuel and food prices, but uncertainty around national elections
June 27, 2024
The South African rand fell sharply on Thursday after media reports of a major disagreement between the pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA) party and
June 27, 2024
There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the war that began in April last year escalates, a global monitor said on Thursday,
June 27, 2024
Police in Kenya’s capital have hurled tear gas to break up anti-tax protesters who have continued to gather despite President William Ruto’s repudiation of unpopular tax legislation that prompted deadly unrest earlier in the week
June 27, 2024
Mauritanians vote in a presidential election on June 29, with incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani facing six challengers.
June 27, 2024
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has promised to accelerate investments to spur an energy and mining boom as he takes on six challengers in the
June 27, 2024
International experts have portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan by warning in a report that 755,000 people are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals
June 27, 2024
West Africa's regional bloc needs up to $2.6 billion annually to establish a 5,000-strong security force to combat terrorism, according to one of the options being
June 27, 2024
Defense chiefs of West Africa on Thursday proposed an ambitious plan to deploy a 5,000-strong “standby force” to fight the region’s worsening security crises, a measure that analysts say might not work due to challenges of funding and division within the regional bloc
June 27, 2024
Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania
June 27, 2024
Zimbabwean police beat dozens of opposition supporters and arrested several outside a court in the capital Harare on Thursday, after Citizens Coalition for Change
June 27, 2024
McCormick beat market expectations for second-quarter profit and sales on Thursday, led by strong demand for its spices and seasonings in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
June 27, 2024
Zimbabwe police have used batons to break up a protest by opposition supporters outside a courthouse in the capital Harare
June 27, 2024
In Egypt, where a shortage of natural gas has caused rolling blackouts during a heatwave, churches, cafes and libraries have stepped up
June 27, 2024
Deadly Kenyan protests that scuppered tax hikes and a failed coup amid fading economic prospects in Bolivia this week are
June 27, 2024
After their stunning success in forcing the government to shelve $2.7 billion in tax hikes, young Kenyan activists are setting their sights higher,
June 28, 2024
Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching
June 28, 2024
The South African rand rallied on Friday on optimism that the Democratic Alliance (DA) and African National Congress (ANC) would reach an agreement over cabinet positions, a
June 28, 2024
South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) is committed to working out a deal over posts in President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet, a party source close to the talks
June 28, 2024
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — who is seeking a second term in office in a vote on Saturday — is promising more economic growth and social programs to eradicate poverty and prevent extremism in the vast West African desert nation, even though he is accused of corruption and mismanagement by his opponents
June 28, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that Parliament will open on July 18 as he remains locked in negotiations with other parties to form a Cabinet well before then amid rifts in the new governing coalition
June 28, 2024
In the two years since he was elected, Kenya's President William Ruto has wowed global climate activists under the Eiffel Tower, brushed shoulders with global tech
June 28, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass
June 28, 2024
Edith Wanjiku holds onto one of the few photos she’s left with of her teenage son Ibrahim Kamau
June 28, 2024
Kenyan activists on Friday circulated calls for fresh protests, strikes and sit-ins demanding President William Ruto quit, after nationwide demonstrations forced him to U-turn on
June 28, 2024
Gabon has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, for the first time since 2022 at a poultry market in the capital Libreville, the
June 21, 2024
The IMF said on Thursday its executive board approved funding for Tanzania of $786.2 million to help tackle climate change while also completing a separate
June 20, 2024
Authorities in the Democratic of Congo have approved the use of two mpox vaccines to try to tackle an upsurge in cases and a dangerous new strain spreading in the
June 26, 2024
Drought-prone Namibia, currently facing its worst drought in over a century, will start constructing its long-awaited second desalination plant in January 2025, the minister of
June 27, 2024Nigeria on Tuesday announced a ban on single-use plastics in government offices as a prelude to a nation-wide ban set to begin in January next year, a move that
June 26, 2024
South Africa has recorded its third death from the viral infection mpox in an outbreak that started in May and has seen 16 laboratory-confirmed cases so far, its health
June 25, 2024The spread of mpox in Africa needs to be addressed urgently, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as scientists warned separately of a dangerous strain in
June 25, 2024
South Africa's Naspers said on Monday its full-year earnings more than doubled, buoyed by improved performance of its e-commerce businesses and contribution from China's Tencent, which
July 03, 2024
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani opened an early lead as vote-counting was underway after Saturday's presidential election, provisional results
June 29, 2024
Polls have closed in the presidential election in Mauritania
June 29, 2024
India wins men’s T20 World Cup, defeating South Africa in dramatic final
June 29, 2024
Bomb blasts kill at least 18 in Nigeria
June 29, 2024Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won the country's presidential election, according to provisional results from over 99.27% of polling stations
June 30, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former opposition leader John Steenhuisen as minister of agriculture on Sunday, bringing the
June 30, 2024
Authorities in northern Nigeria say female suicide bombers have targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated attacks that killed at least 18 people
June 30, 2024
At least 18 people were killed and 30 others injured after a series of attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state
June 29, 2024
South African assets gave up some gains on Monday as the initial optimism shown by the markets waned a day after President Cyril Ramaphosa
July 01, 2024
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani won reelection after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence, the country's electoral commission said on Monday
July 01, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a cabinet of the country's government of national unity following weeks of protracted and at times acrimonious
July 01, 2024
South African manufacturing activity contracted again in June, a Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey showed on Monday, reflecting weak demand.
July 01, 2024South African pharmacy chain Clicks Group said on Monday it would sell drug maker Unicorn Pharmaceuticals to comply with a court ruling, clearing the way for the health ministry to issue
July 01, 2024
Turkey has begun mediating talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier
July 01, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement for the continent’s most industrialized country
July 01, 2024
Kenyan activists called for protesters to take to the streets again on Tuesday, with many rejecting appeals from President William Ruto for dialogue following his
July 01, 2024
A Pentagon official won't say whether U.S. military bases in the Middle East, Africa or the Indo-Pacific are at increased force protection levels similar to bases in Europe
July 01, 2024
Eritrea's Biniam Girmay became the first Black African rider to win a stage on the Tour de France when he prevailed in a reduced bunch sprint at the end of the third stage on
July 01, 2024
Libya's interior minister in Tripoli said the major border crossing at Ras Ijdir with Tunisia was fully reopened on Monday three months after being shut due to armed clashes.
July 01, 2024Nigerian customs agents have seized more than 800 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in a shipping container, a senior official said on Monday,
July 01, 2024
Eritrean rider Biniam Girmay has become the first Black rider to win a Tour de France stage in the last leg in Italy
July 01, 2024
South Africa's new unity government inspired cautious optimism on Monday from industry and financial markets but many citizens and political analysts fear
July 01, 2024
Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in the
July 02, 2024
The South African rand extended losses on Tuesday after a turbulent start to the week as markets waited to see how the new government of national unity (GNU) would approach
July 02, 2024
The U.N. weather agency says it has confirmed that Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a deadly Indian Ocean storm that lashed eastern Africa last year, was the longest-lasting cyclone ever recorded — at 36 days
July 02, 2024
The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday it is expanding its Sudan aid plan to Libya and Uganda, after a surge in arrivals in those countries of people fleeing the 14-
July 02, 2024
Comoros President Azali Assoumani has put his son, Nour El Fath, in charge of coordinating government affairs as he reshuffled his cabinet following a tense January election that
July 02, 2024
Two aid workers have been killed in eastern Congo when their convoy was attacked
July 02, 2024Arouna Loure, a vocal critic of Burkina Faso's ruling military junta, received a
July 02, 2024
The World Bank has approved a $208 million grant for Zambia to help address the social and economic impact of drought that has hit the southern African nation, its finance ministry
July 02, 2024
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group's advance into strategically important new territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has led to
July 02, 2024Egypt is expected to change its foreign, finance, petroleum, electricity and supply ministers in a long-awaited cabinet overhaul, with Ahmed Kouchouk promoted to lead the finance
July 02, 2024
Italian authorities intercepted and seized two Chinese-made military drones that were destined for Libya and disguised as wind turbine equipment, Italy's customs police and customs
July 02, 2024Three protesters have died in detention in Mauritania, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, after security forces made mass arrests in the town of Kaedi to contain unrest in
July 02, 2024Kenyan President William Ruto decided to pull a controversial finance bill amid mass protests that swept the country and reportedly left at least 23 people dead. CNN's Larry Madowo reports.
June 26, 2024
CNN's Larry Madowo is live on scene as protests over a controversial financial bill escalate in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
June 26, 2024Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday set the presidential election date for Oct. 6 and is widely expected to seek a second term, with at least one potential candidate in jail and
July 02, 2024
Investment in electric vehicle manufacturing is booming in Morocco, a country that neighbors Europe and enjoys a free trade agreement with the United States
July 03, 2024
Trapped in a Catholic mission sheltering dozens of women and children from the war raging on the streets of Khartoum, Father Jacob Thelekkadan punched new holes in his
July 03, 2024
Sierra Leone outlaws child marriage with new bill
July 03, 2024Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swore in a heavily reshuffled cabinet on Wednesday that includes new finance and foreign ministers in a government facing
July 03, 2024
Activists behind Kenya's anti-government protests are rethinking their strategy after demonstrations on Tuesday were marred by violence and looting that they fear
July 03, 2024
A bill that bans child marriage in Sierra Leone has been signed into law
July 03, 2024Residents say an armed group attacked a wedding ceremony in central Mali and killed at least 21 people
July 03, 2024Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named a new chief of staff for the armed forces on Wednesday, after replacing the defence minister in his newly formed cabinet, as tensions
July 03, 2024
Kenya has named central bank economist Raphael Owino as the new head of its debt management office, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.
July 03, 2024Niger's junta has agreed to talks with Benin's government, led by two former Benin presidents, to help restore relations after a coup in Niger last year led to the border closing
July 03, 2024
Egypt’s new Cabinet has been sworn in and features major changes in the defense, foreign ministry and economy portfolios as the country faces mounting public discontent and conflicts in neighboring nations
July 03, 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently-deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections
July 03, 2024
Soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo's 223rd Battalion were sent to the lush hillsides near Lake Kivu to repel a rebel advance threatening Goma, the largest
July 04, 2024
More than 136,000 people have fled Sudan's southeastern Sennar state since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a series of attacks on towns, the United Nations said on
July 04, 2024
Twenty-five soldiers have been sentenced to death by a military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo for fleeing battles against
July 04, 2024
The head of a Tunisian opposition party, Lotfi Mraihi, who has announced his intention to run in a presidential election set for October, has been arrested by police on suspicion of
July 04, 2024Ethiopia will receive $10.5 billion in support over the coming years if long-running negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are
July 04, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto spoke by phone with International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva in the days after he withdrew $2.7 billion in proposed tax
July 04, 2024
The United States welcomed a two-week humanitarian truce in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the White House said on Thursday, amid fierce fighting between government
July 04, 2024
At least 89 people dead after migrant boat sinks off Mauritania’s coast
July 04, 2024More migrants and refugees are embarking on dangerous journeys across Africa towards the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea where they face growing risk of abuse
July 05, 2024Kenyan activist Bill Eugene Omollo was walking home after dark in his Nairobi neighbourhood on June 20 when he spotted trouble -
July 05, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday proposed spending cuts and additional borrowing in roughly equal measure to fill a nearly $2.7 billion budget hole caused
July 05, 2024
When Nigerian Adamu Buba saw a woman in a torn hijab at his friend's wedding last Saturday, he asked two colleagues to serve her food.
July 05, 2024Rwanda's Finance Ministry said on Friday that South Korea has awarded it $1 billion in concessionary loans to fund projects in several sectors including transport, healthcare, and
July 05, 2024The U.S. military commander in Niger says all American forces and equipment will leave a smaller base in the West African country this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will be out of a critical drone base in August
July 05, 2024
Two U.S. citizens on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo over their role in an attempted coup in May, told a court on Friday that they were threatened by the
July 05, 2024
At least 89 bodies have been recovered off the coast of Mauritania after a migrant boat capsized this week, the West African country's state news agency and the head of a
July 05, 2024Two more solders have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after they fled battles in conflict-torn North Kivu
July 05, 2024
Recent suicide bombings in northeastern Nigeria have raised questions about the country's claim that it has degraded the Islamic extremists whose insurgency since 2009 has killed more than 35,000 people directly and displaced more than 2 million
July 06, 2024
The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have ruled out returning to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize regional efforts to revert coups and curb the violence spreading across the region
July 06, 2024
Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer known for her criticism of President Kais Saied, has been sentenced to one year in prison, her legal representative said on Saturday.
July 06, 2024
Rival Sudanese political factions formally attended reconciliation talks in Cairo on Saturday, the first since a conflict in the country began almost 15 months ago,
July 06, 2024
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, three military-led West African states, signed a confederation treaty on Saturday, underscoring their determination to chart a joint
July 06, 2024
Hundreds of Kenyans attended a concert in the nation's capital Nairobi on Sunday, chanting slogans and dancing, to commemorate the more than three dozen people killed in recent
July 07, 2024
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Sunday the region risked disintegration and worsening insecurity after junta-led Burkina
July 07, 2024
West Africa’s divided regional bloc has asked Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been under threat following their decision to leave the group in January
July 07, 2024
City authorities say nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people
July 08, 2024In Zimbabwe, talk therapy involving park benches and a network of grandmothers has become a saving grace for people with mental health issues
July 05, 2024Kenyan farmers' financial security and optimism have been shaken by recent flooding
July 07, 2024The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it was disappointed with a lack of progress in reconciling with breakaway, junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali and
July 08, 2024
The Ugandan army has provided support to the M23 rebel group operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Monday said
July 08, 2024
Hundreds of trucks loaded with food and water have been stranded on a scorching Egyptian road, some for nearly two
July 08, 2024
Ghana has cleared a key hurdle to restructure its international bonds, as its official creditors confirmed the proposed debt rework was not overly favourable to bondholders.
July 08, 2024
Gambian lawmakers adopted recommendations on Monday for the country to maintain its ban on female genital mutilation ahead of a vote later this month on whether to decriminalise the
July 08, 2024
Egypt's current account deficit more than tripled to $17.1 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2023/24 compared to $5.3 billion a year earlier as oil exports plunged by $7.2
July 08, 2024
At least 100 people, including students, were kidnapped for ransom last week in Ethiopia's restive regions that have seen sporadic fighting since the end of the civil war in
July 08, 2024Inflation in Egypt is forecast to have extended a slowdown for a fourth month in June, maintaining a downward trajectory that most analysts expect to last for the rest of the year at
July 08, 2024
Rains were below average last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa growing regions but the west African nation's farmers said on Monday the soil was moist enough to help the
July 08, 2024
A Kenyan court has ruled that the 2022 shooting death of a Pakistani journalist by police in Nairobi was unlawful and unconstitutional
July 08, 2024The head of the Kenya-led multinational force tasked with curbing gang violence in Haiti says “there’s no room for failure” and is committing to ensuring democratic elections
July 08, 2024
The Kenyan government must pay 10 million shillings ($78,300) to the family of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by police in the capital Nairobi in 2022, a Kenyan
July 08, 2024Nigeria plans to suspend taxes on certain food imports including wheat and maize for 150-days, and recommend a retail price to try to bring under control rising
July 08, 2024
An Ugandan man charged with terrorism-related offences has been accused of supporting a rebel group allied to Islamic State (IS), including activities such as recruiting fighters
July 09, 2024The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies
July 09, 2024
Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed met Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit him in his war capital Port Sudan since the
July 09, 2024
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo will pause its withdrawal, with no timeline set for the next phase following the initial one in June, the
July 09, 2024
A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy
December 02, 2024Low prices and payment delays are pushing Ghana's cocoa farmers to sell to increasingly sophisticated smuggling rings, siphoning off
July 09, 2024
Cameroonian President Paul Biya secured approval from lawmakers on Tuesday to delay parliamentary and local elections until 2026, a move opposition
July 09, 2024
Rwanda hints it won’t reimburse $300 million UK paid for deportation deal after new British PM says he’ll ditch agreement
July 09, 2024
A South African soldier, who was part of a United Nations peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, died on Monday when a hand grenade exploded close to his
July 10, 2024South Sudan peace talks that were almost complete have hit a stumbling block
July 10, 2024Zimbabwe has revised its economic growth forecast downwards as southern Africa's worst drought in decades ravages crop yields, its finance minister told Reuters
July 10, 2024
Morocco plans to acquire a spy satellite from Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) in a $1 billion deal, Moroccan media reported on Wednesday.
July 10, 2024Libya's eastern-based parliament approved what it called an additional budget of 88 billion Libyan dinars ($18.3 billion) on Wednesday to its appointed government for the rest of
July 10, 2024
The number of migrants reaching Spain's Canary Islands on precarious vessels from West Africa has hit an all-time annual record with 41,425 arrivals between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 of
December 02, 2024
A Kenyan runner who won the Boston and Chicago marathons has been banned for seven years for doping and trying to use fake documents to explain his failed drug test
July 10, 2024
At least 25 cases of a dangerous new strain of mpox spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo have been detected in the eastern city of Goma, mostly in camps housing people
July 10, 2024The U.N. General Assembly has declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms — extreme weather events that are increasing and threaten health and economies from central Africa to northern China
July 10, 2024
Spanish tourist killed by elephants in South Africa while taking photo
July 10, 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is expected to cruise to a fourth term in office in an election on Monday against two opposition candidates who were cleared to run against him but
July 11, 2024
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked the country's finance minister who was just four months into the job, state-owned television reported, the sixth replacement in the
July 11, 2024
Mali's military junta has lifted a suspension on political party activities meant to safeguard public order, the council of ministers said late on Wednesday.
July 11, 2024Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday fired his entire cabinet apart from the foreign minister, bowing to pressure from nationwide
July 11, 2024
The South African city of Cape Town and surrounding areas have been hit by more storms, ripping roofs off houses and causing widespread flooding
July 11, 2024
The U.S. and other western governments criticized a controversial security bill in South Sudan that would allow the government to detain people without warrants, saying it would undermine open political and civil space ahead of the country’s elections
July 11, 2024
Burkina Faso's military junta said it has adopted the draft of an amended family code that criminalises homosexuality.
July 11, 2024
Libya's Tripoli-based High State Council (HSC) on Thursday rejected a budget approved by the eastern-based parliament, warning of more partition and wasting of public money.
July 11, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto has dismissed all of his Cabinet ministers and promised to form a new government that will be lean and efficient following weeks of protests over high taxes and poor governance
July 11, 2024
Kenya’s President Ruto fires almost entire cabinet after protests
July 11, 2024
Salvage operations were in high-gear on Thursday to prevent a potential oil spill and pollution along South Africa's west coast from a grounded general cargo vessel, authorities
July 11, 2024Ugandan human rights advocates on Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against a ruling by a lower court that upheld a draconian anti-homosexuality law which includes the
July 11, 2024
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Thursday he will run for second presidential term in election expected on Sept. 7.
July 11, 2024
Sudan's warring parties are in Switzerland for U.N.-led talks aimed at brokering possible local ceasefires to
July 11, 2024
Rwandans vote Monday in an election that will almost certainly extend the long rule of President Paul Kagame
July 12, 2024
A South African restaurant and bar has served up a sandwich that's nearly 10 feet long in the latest offering from an establishment with a taste for the supersized
July 12, 2024
A two-week truce in eastern Congo has heavily reduced fighting, but with a week left aid workers and local civil society groups say not much help has reached millions of people who are trapped in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises
July 12, 2024
Inmates escape Niger prison holding militants
July 12, 2024
More than one million children are at risk from acute malnutrition in Democratic Republic of Congo as rising violence drives up needs among millions of displaced people, the World
July 12, 2024
Nigeria’s government found guilty of human rights abuses during the #EndSARS protests
July 12, 2024
At least seven lifeless bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a collapsed school building in central Nigeria's Plateau state on Friday, a Reuters witness said.
July 12, 2024
Kenya's police chief Japhet Koome resigned on Friday following intense criticism of officers' conduct during anti-government protests last month in which at least 39 people were
July 12, 2024
A Tunisian judge barred a potential presidential candidate from appearing in the media or travelling around the country on Friday, the latest politician to face what their parties
July 12, 2024The African Group has asked World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to run for a second term as the head of the global trade watchdog, a document
July 12, 2024
When Abdellatif Bouhlal landed on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria after surviving the perilous sea journey from Morocco on a rickety dinghy, he was alone and just
July 12, 2024
Kenya’s police boss has resigned in the latest development resulting from deadly protests
July 12, 2024Police say a two-story school collapsed during morning classes in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble
July 12, 2024
‘Severely mutilated’ bodies found in Nairobi dumpsite sparks protests
July 12, 2024
Twenty-two people were killed after a two-storey school building collapsed in central Nigeria's Plateau state, Sky news reported on Saturday.
July 13, 2024
21 people die as school building collapses in Nigeria as students sit exam
July 13, 2024
For Mariama Jarjou, taking her two daughters to a traditional circumciser when they were 5 and 4 was an act of love - a painful but important ritual that would
July 13, 2024
U.N. peacekeepers are unlikely to proceed with an agreed withdrawal from Congo's conflict-torn North Kivu for as long as Rwandan troops remain in the eastern
July 13, 2024The United Nations mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on Saturday for the immediate release of a journalist detained in Tripoli two days ago, adding all media workers should be kept
July 13, 2024Some conservation-minded Kenyans are trying to protect threatened mangroves from loggers by hiding beehives in them
July 14, 2024Police say a bombing outside a café in the Somali capital of Mogadishu killed at least five people
July 14, 2024Rwandans lined up on Monday to elect their next president, with early results putting incumbent Paul Kagame in the lead in a vote widely expected to give him a fourth term and extend
July 15, 2024
A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing five and injuring 20 as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football
July 15, 2024
President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Rwanda's presidential election, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power
July 15, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa warned other developing nations on Monday that future carbon taxes proposed by rich countries would damage their economies
July 15, 2024
Kenya's government plans to cut 2024-25 spending by 1.9% and widen the fiscal deficit to 3.6% of GDP in a revised budget, the treasury said, weeks after it was forced to roll back
July 15, 2024
Police in Kenya say they have arrested the main suspect after nine dismembered bodies of women were found in a quarry in the capital, Nairobi
July 15, 2024
South Africa's emergency services say six firefighters have died battling a bushfire in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province and another two are in a critical condition
July 15, 2024
Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia have rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting
July 15, 2024
Gambian parliament rejects bid to overturn historic ban on female genital mutilation
July 15, 2024
Suspected serial killer confesses to murdering 42 women, Kenyan police say
July 15, 2024
The world's second vaccine against malaria was launched on Monday as Ivory Coast began a routine vaccine programme using shots developed by the University of Oxford
July 15, 2024
Gambia's parliament on Monday rejected a bill that would have ended a ban on female genital mutilation, after lawmakers voted down all the clauses in the proposed
July 15, 2024
A suspected serial killer has been arrested in Kenya following the discovery of several bodies at a quarry in Nairobi, with police saying on Monday he had confessed to killing 42
July 15, 2024
Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates reached an agreement allowing for the resumption of travel between the two countries, Nigeria's information minister said on
July 15, 2024
S&P Global plans to wait until a scheduled review date on August 23 to decide whether to cut Kenya's sovereign credit rating following deadly turmoil in the country
July 15, 2024
Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine
July 15, 2024
The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved the third review of Ghana's $3 billion lending programme, unlocking the disbursement of about $360 million, the IMF said on
December 02, 2024
A militia group in west Democratic Republic of Congo killed nine soldiers in an army camp in a village on Saturday, the army spokesman and a chief of a
July 16, 2024At least one person was killed in renewed anti-government protests across Kenya on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter said, as police clashed with
July 16, 2024
At least five people were killed when militiamen ambushed a convoy in central Somalia and seized heavy weapons, the local government and residents
July 16, 2024More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20% of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on
July 16, 2024
A court in Kenya has allowed police to detain for 30 days a man suspected of killing and dismembering women then dumping them in a flooded quarry, as investigations continue
July 16, 2024The Italian health ministry has placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning as a wave of hot air from Africa is baking southern Europe
July 16, 2024
Authorities in Congo say at least 72 people including several soldiers were killed in a militia attack east of the capital on Saturday
July 16, 202490 giant African land snails intercepted at airport after agents notice strange smell
July 16, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday adjourned a money laundering trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to Oct. 11, after the court's annual holiday that
July 16, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday denied a request by former central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele to travel out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed ailment.
July 16, 2024
Officials and witnesses say chaos erupted at a soccer game in Guinea after fans protested a referee’s call and thousands of panicked spectators tried to flee the stadium, leaving at least 56 people dead in the West African nation
December 02, 2024
90 giant African snails ‘intercepted’ at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
July 16, 2024
At least five people were killed and several others injured when an informal gold mine caved in and buried them alive in northern Kenya, a local official said.
July 17, 2024Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati
July 17, 2024
Why Africa is doubling down on its space ambitions
July 17, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s disciplinary hearing with the African National Congress has been postponed for more arguments, as he faces expulsion for campaigning against the organization he once led as head of a new political party
July 17, 2024
Interpol has announced the outcome of a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents in 21 countries
July 17, 2024
A salvage team hopes to take advantage of a respite in the stormy weather that has lashed Cape Town's coast to start pumping 500 tons of fuel off a ship that ran aground last
July 17, 2024Egypt will halt load-shedding power cuts during the summer as of Sunday, after some natural gas shipments arrived, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday, in a bid to end a
July 17, 2024
Tunisia's prime minister urged European countries on Wednesday to increase financial assistance to his country and others to help tackle the flow
July 17, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to approve an additional spending of 6.2 trillion naira ($4 billion) to plug shortfalls in this year's national
July 17, 2024
A European aid worker who was arrested two months ago in Central African Republic over spying allegations has begun a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention
July 17, 2024The “tuna bond” scandal that shook Mozambique’s economy is washing into a U.S. court
July 17, 2024Mali's armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video showing a man in Malian military uniform cutting into a corpse in front of his peers, the army chief said in a
July 17, 2024A humanitarian truce in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been extended by 15 days until 11.59 p.m. local time on Aug. 3, the White House said on Wednesday, amid efforts to end
July 18, 2024Kenya's government on Thursday ratcheted up its appeal for weeks of protests to stop and police tried to ban demonstrations in the heart of the capital Nairobi
July 18, 2024
Human rights groups condemned a decision by the Zimbabwean High Court on Wednesday to uphold a lower court's ruling denying bail to an opposition party leader and 78 activists, who
July 18, 2024
A Kenyan court has suspended a police ban on protests in the capital
July 18, 2024
The United States has announced the extension of a humanitarian truce that had reduced fighting in eastern Congo
July 18, 2024South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has opened a new parliamentary term
July 18, 2024
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 99.18% of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said on Thursday, extending his near quarter-century in office.
July 18, 2024
A major cocoa producing region in Ghana, the world's second largest cocoa grower, is 81% infected with swollen shoot disease, according to the International Cocoa
July 18, 2024
The African Development Bank says it has approved a $1 billion loan to South Africa’s state-owned rail and ports company, Transnet
July 18, 2024A key supply route into Sudan's Darfur region, deemed at risk of famine by experts, has been cut off due to heavy rains, a World Food
July 18, 2024
The United States will give an extra $203 million to help millions of civilians affected by the war in Sudan, U.S.
July 18, 2024
President Joe Biden has arrived for his long-awaited first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa to the cheers of thousands in Angola
December 02, 2024
President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Thursday to revive South Africa's flagging economy and extend prosperity to the many left out of it, by
July 18, 2024
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December 02, 2024
The United Arab Emirates' president and the head of Sudan's army have discussed an offer from Ethiopia's leader to mediate in Sudan's 15-month-old war, diplomatic sources said.
July 18, 2024
In Zimbabwe, an El Nino-induced drought is affecting millions of people, and children are most at risk
July 19, 2024Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday mostly named holdovers from the cabinet he sacked last week to a new government meant to respond to the
July 19, 2024
In Togo, these school uniforms are at the center of a movement offering girls and women a chance to build better lives
July 19, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto has appointed the first 11 members of his Cabinet
July 19, 2024
A Tunisian court sentenced opposition party leader Lotfi Mraihi, a potential presidential election candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, his lawyer said on
July 19, 2024A Tunisian court has sentenced a presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison and banned him from contesting elections for life, in the latest move to stifle opponents of President Kais Saied in the upcoming October election which critics call a sham
July 19, 2024Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Friday he will run for another presidential term in Oct. 6 elections.
July 19, 2024
Nigeria's government has fined Meta $220 million after its investigations found “multiple and repeated” violations of the country’s data protection and consumer rights laws on Facebook and WhatsApp
July 19, 2024Turkey is set to send navy support to Somali waters after the two countries agreed Ankara will send an exploration vessel off the coast of Somalia to prospect for oil and gas.
July 19, 2024South African police have uncovered an industrial scale meth manufacturing lab in one of the country's biggest ever drug busts and arrested four suspects including two
July 20, 2024South African police discover multimillion-dollar meth lab on farm
July 20, 2024
The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed European and African heritage, from their
December 02, 2024Meet Biniam Girmay, the Black African cyclist making history wherever he rides
July 21, 2024
South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) expects its demerger from parent company Anglo American to be completed next year and is planning a secondary listing in London
July 22, 2024
Soldiers and police sealed off the headquarters of Uganda's biggest opposition party on Monday in what a police spokesperson called a precautionary move ahead
July 22, 2024
Civilians in Sudan have suffered horrendous levels of violence during more than a year of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, facing
July 22, 2024
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has fired two senior members of government including the foreign minister in a mini-cabinet reshuffle, her office said.
July 22, 2024
Nigerian artist Fola David is seeking the Guinness record for the largest drawing by an individual after spending six days on his piece in a stadium in the commercial capital Lagos.
July 22, 2024
Dozens of fighters were killed in clashes on Monday in the southern tip of Somalia when al Shabaab militants tried to overrun three army bases, officials and the
July 22, 2024At least 50 bodies were pulled from the mud on Monday following two landslides in southern Ethiopia, a local official said.
July 22, 2024Mohamed Ziane, a Moroccan former government minister, has been sentenced to five years in prison in a corruption case that his attorney described as retribution for outspokenness and work defending political prisoners
July 22, 2024Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests
July 22, 2024
Global business travel spending in 2023 recovered to pre-pandemic levels in North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa as companies resumed in-
July 22, 2024
Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the country, part of efforts to resolve issues causing a rift between an oil refinery owned by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote and the industry regulator
July 22, 2024
Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 229 people
July 23, 2024
The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has jumped to 229 and could rise further as the search for survivors and casualties continued into a second day, a
July 23, 2024
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