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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December 03, 2024
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
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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
Ugandan security forces detained dozens of young people on Tuesday, a rights group said, as they took part in a banned protest rally in downtown Kampala against
July 23, 2024
Kenya's police fired tear gas to prevent scuffles between groups of protesters and government supporters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, as youth-led
July 23, 2024
Kenya expects the International Monetary Fund to review its revised fiscal repair plan at the end of August, the country's chief minister has told a parliamentary
July 23, 2024
‘This old dog’s got a lot of fight left in him’: South Africa’s Chad Le Clos aims for second Olympic gold, aged 32
July 23, 2024
Ugandan security forces have arrested dozens of people who tried to walk to the parliamentary building in protest over official corruption
July 23, 2024Kenyan protesters vow to seize country’s main airport as deadly unrest continues into sixth week
July 23, 2024
Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital have clashed with an emerging pro-government group as weeks of turmoil continue
July 23, 2024
A tiny insect is ravaging Tunisia’s prickly pears, a critical source of revenue for the North African country's agriculture sector and economy.
July 23, 2024
An al Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for what it said was an attack in northern Togo that left at least six people dead on Saturday, according to the SITE Intelligence
July 23, 2024Nigeria's central bank on Tuesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the fourth time this year, as inflation surged to a 28-year high
July 23, 2024
A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison
July 23, 2024South Africa's rand fell on Monday after comments by U.S.
December 02, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city
July 23, 2024
Ghana's finance minister raised the country's 2024 growth forecast on Tuesday and said the West African nation was rebounding faster
July 23, 2024
Nigeria's police chief warned against Kenyan-style protests on Tuesday after frustrated citizens used online platforms to call for demonstrations against poor
July 23, 2024
Egyptian authorities have extended the pretrial detention of at least 125 people and arrested two journalists shortly before holding a national dialogue on Tuesday to discuss pretrial
July 23, 2024
Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco
July 23, 2024
More than 200 dead in southern Ethiopia landslides
July 23, 2024
A high court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 11 people including former soldiers and police officers to long prison terms for their roles in a failed military coup last year.
July 23, 2024After serving in Ghana's police force for over three decades, pensioner Emmanuel Amey-Wemegah had a clear retirement plan: invest part of his
December 02, 2024
Fifteen Nigerien soldiers have been killed and another 16 injured while battling armed militants, Niger's defence ministry said in a statement read out on state television on
July 23, 2024The family of a Portuguese-Belgian aid worker detained in the Central African Republic for allegedly being in touch with armed groups to plot a coup have maintaining his innocence and called for his release, even as the African government says it had evidence to support its accusations
July 23, 2024Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations' International Organization for
July 23, 2024A military spokesperson says at least 10 people were killed and an unspecified number of others were abducted in eastern Congo by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group
December 02, 2024Farmers in Africa are blaming chemical fertilizers for increasingly acidic soils that have led to production decline
July 24, 2024Scars from the mpox pustules are still visible on 7-year old Grace Kabuo’s face, as well as on a handful of her playmates at a
July 24, 2024
A study shows that a twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing new HIV infections in women in Africa
July 24, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday nominated four members of the main opposition party to a "broad-based" cabinet he promised in response to nationwide protests, but
July 24, 2024
A Ugandan magistrate's court has charged at least 42 youths for offences allegedly committed during a banned anti-corruption protest on Tuesday, and remanded them in custody.
July 24, 2024
Egyptian authorities are scrambling to salvage the VSG Glory, a cargo ship that began sinking on Monday near the coral reefs off Quseir in the Red Sea Governorate after being
December 02, 2024Kenya's President William Ruto on Wednesday named John Mbadi as finance minister in a cabinet that includes opposition coalition members in a planned broad-based government.
July 24, 2024
Fifteen people were killed and more than 150 were missing after a boat carrying 300 passengers capsized near Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Monday, the
July 24, 2024Eritrean authorities have suspended all flights by Ethiopian Airlines to the East African nation effective Sept. 30, the airline said on Wednesday.
July 24, 2024
Nigeria's government on Wednesday pleaded for more time and patience to end economic hardships as citizens mobilise for demonstrations, a day after the country's
July 24, 2024
Morocco fans crashed the pitch to protest a late goal by Argentina at the opening match of the Paris Olympics men’s soccer tournament
July 24, 2024
15 people dead, more than 195 missing after boat carrying migrants capsizes off Mauritania
July 24, 2024Suspected Islamist rebels killed at least 17 people in an attack on civilians working fields in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, a local
July 24, 2024Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalising gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher
July 24, 2024
A nonprofit group in rural Uganda says domestic violence is so widespread that it's hard to find a woman who isn't affected
July 25, 2024Due to warmer temperatures and increasing urbanization, the market for cooling systems is expanding in Africa
July 25, 2024
Burkina Faso's army has condemned videos shared on social media this week showing people presenting themselves as soldiers and army auxiliaries mutilating corpses.
July 25, 2024The International Organization for Migration says more than a dozen migrants died and at least 150 others are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania on their way to Europe, triggering a frantic search and rescue operation
July 25, 2024A boat with at least 45 refugees has capsized off the coast of Yemen's Taiz on Wednesday night, and there are only four survivors, the U.N. refugee agency in Yemen said on Thursday.
July 25, 2024The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has risen to 257 and is expected to almost double, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
July 25, 2024
Ugandan police detained several people in the capital Kampala on Thursday during a second day of anti-corruption protests that are demanding the
July 25, 2024
Kenyan police detained several people on Thursday who attempted to present a petition to the president's office and lay flowers to honour those
July 25, 2024
South Africa, the world's 14th biggest carbon emitter, has made strong commitments to climate action but is moving too slowly to wean itself off coal and roll out
July 25, 2024
Inflation in key sub-Saharan African economies is unlikely to slow to targets even after recent aggressive interest rate hikes as central banks look to reverse
July 25, 2024
Smiling broadly, perhaps to hide their nervousness, dozens of young African migrants wearing swimming goggles took their first strokes and
July 25, 2024
Ethiopia landslide death toll reaches 257 as UN warns it could surpass 500
July 25, 2024
Zimbabwe's 2024 budget deficit is forecast to be 1.3% of gross domestic product, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Thursday, but warned that concerns remained
July 25, 2024
The United States on Thursday will impose sanctions on a coalition of rebel groups it accused of seeking to overthrow the Democratic Republic of Congo's
July 25, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday named Mandisa Maya as the first female chief justice, effective on Sept. 1, following consultations with the Judicial
July 25, 2024Sudan's agriculture minister said there is no famine in the country and cast doubt on U.N.-backed data that 755,000 are experiencing catastrophic hunger, rejecting the idea of
July 25, 2024
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance is taking the African National Congress, the party it co-governs the country with, to court over a preelection speech given by President Cyril Ramaphosa
July 25, 2024
South Africa has appointed its first female chief justice
July 25, 2024
Burundi has reported three cases of mpox in its commercial capital and a nearby town, its health ministry said.
July 26, 2024Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued the search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country
July 26, 2024
South African police say they have arrested 95 Libyan nationals on suspicion of receiving training at a secret military camp in the north of the country
July 26, 2024
European Union member states imposed sanctions on Friday on nine individuals and one entity for human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and for their role in
July 26, 2024
At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers
July 26, 2024The Nigeria women’s basketball team wasn’t allowed to board the delegation’s boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, according to a person familiar with the situation
July 26, 2024
Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-
July 27, 2024
Police in Uganda arrested 104 people during anti-corruption protests this week and almost all of them have been charged with public order offences, a police statement said late on
July 27, 2024A pro-democracy group said Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 22 people in an attack on the city of al-Fashir in the western Darfur region on Saturday, though the
July 27, 2024Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had
July 27, 2024Chad's President Mahamat Deby said the decision to terminate the country's military pact with France was taken because it had become outdated, in his first
December 02, 2024
A controversial refereeing decision sparked violence and a crush at a soccer match in southeast Guinea, killing 56 people, according to a provisional
December 02, 2024
Dozens killed in crowd crush at Guinea soccer match
December 02, 2024A Libyan court has jailed 12 officials in connection with the collapse of a series of dams in Derna last year that killed thousands of the city's residents, the Attorney General
July 28, 2024
A court in Libya has sentenced 12 current and former officials to terms of up to 27 years in prison over their involvement in the collapse of two dams last year that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city
July 28, 2024At least 19 people are dead in Ethiopia after a boat capsized on a river in the country's northwest, a state-run media outlet said on Sunday.
July 28, 2024Ethiopia's central bank floated the birr currency on Monday, a move it hopes will secure International Monetary Fund (IMF) support and enable progress on a
July 29, 2024
Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Monday that its fighters and Malian soldiers took losses in heavy fighting against Tuareg rebels near Mali's border with Algeria.
July 29, 2024South Sudanese runner Perina Lokure Nakang first ran for sport along the road near her refugee camp in Kenya
July 29, 2024
Human Rights Watch is accusing the paramilitary group fighting against the military in Sudan’s civil war of rampant sexual violence against women, including gang rape and forced marriages of girls
July 29, 2024
Women and girls in Sudan subjected to widespread sexual violence by warring parties, report finds
July 29, 2024
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been expelled by his former African National Congress party after he formed a new political party that contested the country’s recent elections
July 29, 2024Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed widespread acts of sexual violence in the capital Khartoum, including gang rape and forced marriages, in
July 29, 2024
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the African National Congress after backing a rival party in May's
July 29, 2024
South Africa’s ANC kicks former president Jacob Zuma out of party he once led
July 29, 2024
Dozens of Wagner mercenaries were killed by jihadis and rebels over the weekend in northern Mali in what one analyst describes as the largest battleground blow to the shadowy Russian group in years
July 29, 2024
Ethiopia has secured an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a new financing program worth $3.4 billion, the IMF said on Monday.
July 29, 2024
Dozens of Russian mercenaries killed in rebel ambush in Mali, in their worst known loss in Africa
July 29, 2024Democratic Republic of Congo's government on Monday accused M23 rebels and Rwandan forces backing them of sending false navigation signals to disrupt air traffic over the
July 29, 2024
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has pardoned three journalists who were charged with sex crimes and espionage in prosecutions widely condemned by press freedom advocates as retaliation for critical reporting
July 29, 2024
Pascal Kanyemera has no doubts: Back in 1994, when he survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, God had his back
July 30, 2024
France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled
July 30, 2024
Interpol says more than 200 people have been arrested and some $1.6 billion worth of illegal drugs and precursor chemicals seized as part of a two-month operation against narcotics trafficking across Europe, North America and Africa
July 30, 2024Ethiopia's new $3.4 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund paves the way for completion of its long-delayed debt restructuring in the
July 30, 2024
African cities sitting on ‘keg of gunpowder’ as growing youth anger fuels unrest
July 30, 2024
Thousands of people are stranded on the streets of the eastern Sudanese city of Kassala as a deluge of rain compounds the suffering of more than a million Sudanese who sought refuge
July 30, 2024
Ethiopia's new $3.4 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund paves the way for completion of its long-delayed debt restructuring in the
July 30, 2024
An al Qaeda affiliate said it killed 50 Russian Wagner mercenaries and 10 Malian soldiers in an ambush in Mali's northern Kidal region near the border with Algeria on Saturday,
July 30, 2024With no shortage of talent and ambition, Nigeria's film business can become a global phenomenon like Afrobeats, industry insider Toyosi Etim-Effiong tells CNN’s Stephanie Busari at this year’s Essence Film Festival in New Orleans.
July 30, 2024
Nollywood aims to become a global cultural phenomenon like Afrobeats
July 30, 2024
Tiffany Haddish defends Zimbabwe grocery store TikTok video after backlash
July 30, 2024
South Africa's trade minister said on Tuesday he is confident his country will maintain preferential trade status with the U.S. despite
July 30, 2024Ethiopia’s currency has lost 30% of its value the day after the central bank began implementing a flexible exchange rate policy backed by the International Monetary Fund as part of new measures to stabilize the eastern African nation’s economy
July 30, 2024Algeria has decided to withdraw its ambassador from France, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after France recognised a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under
July 30, 2024Sudan's government conditionally accepted on Tuesday an invitation to attend U.S.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva, raising hopes that the talks could advance efforts to end a 15-month
July 30, 2024
The World Bank's board has approved $1.5 billion in financing for its first ever budget support lending to Ethiopia, the lender said late on Tuesday as the east African nation tries to push
July 30, 2024
Guinea's transitional authorities have presented a draft of a new constitution which will reduce and set presidential term limits, and potentially allow current military leader
July 30, 2024
Ghana's lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law to give more opportunities to women at the national level, the speaker of parliament said, with a target to increase their participation in
July 30, 2024A ceasefire beginning on Aug. 4 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was agreed on Tuesday following talks between DRC and Rwanda, the Angola
July 30, 2024Former Ghanaian president John Dramani Mahama will try to renegotiate terms of an International Monetary Fund bailout and boost local ownership of future
July 31, 2024
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan struck a defiant tone on Wednesday after a drone hit an army base he was visiting in eastern Sudan, casting doubt on
July 31, 2024
Sudan’s military says its leader, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, has survived a drone attack on an army graduation ceremony he was attending in the country’s east
July 31, 2024
A high court in Ghana has blocked civil society groups from holding protests in the capital Accra, one of the organisers said, joining other African
July 31, 2024A Ugandan man held in pre-trial detention for nearly a year under anti-homosexuality laws which have drawn international condemnation has been freed on bail, a rights group
July 31, 2024Mali has carried out air strikes on insurgent targets in and around the town of Tinzaouaten, in its vast northern desert, after ethnic Tuareg rebels and Islamist
July 31, 2024South African manufacturing activity fell in November, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed, as volatile demand conditions weighed on business activity.
December 02, 2024
‘I realized that this was bigger than basketball’: Former NBA All-Star Luol Deng on the rise of South Sudan’s basketball team
July 31, 2024
Kenya's Court of Appeal on Wednesday declared the government's 2023 finance law unconstitutional, inflicting a new blow to the government of
July 31, 2024
Nigerian security forces deployed in major cities and the government said it was open to dialogue ahead of planned protests on Thursday against a cost of living
July 31, 2024
A court in Guinea on Wednesday found former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other accused military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity in a 2009 stadium
July 31, 2024
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October 06, 2013King Mohammed VI invited French President Emmanuel Macron for an official visit, after Paris announced a position in support of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed territory of
July 31, 2024
Kenya's inflation fell to 4.3% year-on-year in July from 4.6% a month earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday. On a monthly basis, inflation was -0.2% from 0.4% in June.
July 31, 2024
Kenya and the Central African Republic have declared new outbreaks of mpox as Africa's health officials are racing to contain the spread of the disease in a region lacking vaccines
July 31, 2024
African health officials say mpox cases have surged by 160% so far this year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of treatments or vaccines on the continent
August 01, 2024
At least three protesters were killed in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Thursday, Reuters reporters and eyewitnesses said, as demonstrators rallied
August 01, 2024
Security forces have fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s spiraling economy
August 01, 2024
A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world's largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area
May 02, 2023
At least two Ethiopian local governments have ordered the closure of dozens of businesses found hiking prices of basic commodities after the central bank floated the national
August 01, 2024
The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries have caused famine in at least one site in North Darfur, and have
August 01, 2024
Sixteen people were killed on Wednesday when a bomb blew up a village cafe in Nigeria's Borno state, hotbed of the Boko Haram militant insurgency, police said.
August 01, 2024A global food monitor concluded on Thursday that war in Sudan had caused famine at a camp for displaced people in North Darfur, and similar conditions may exist elsewhere in the region.
August 01, 2024
At least three protesters were killed in Nigeria's Kaduna state on Thursday, Reuters reporters and eyewitnesses said, as demonstrators rallied across the country against rising cost
August 01, 2024
Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has retained Victoire Sidemeho Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister and a government will be formed in the coming days in line with a new constitution,
August 01, 2024
Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation
August 01, 2024
Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said on Thursday they had killed at least 84 Russian Wagner mercenaries and 47 Malian soldiers over days of fierce fighting in late July, as Russia
August 01, 2024A rights group says at least nine people have been killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country
August 02, 2024
Nigerian police are on red alert and may seek the help of the military after protests against the cost of living and governance issues turned violent in some cities
August 02, 2024
Ethiopia will save $4.9 billion from its debt restructuring exercise, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign said on Friday.
August 02, 2024
Tunisian opposition parties, presidential candidates and human rights groups have accused the authorities of using "arbitrary restrictions" and intimidation in order
August 02, 2024
The young people who make up more than half of Algeria's population are so disenchanted that they may not vote in next month's presidential election
August 02, 2024
Famine declared in Sudan’s Darfur region after months of civil war
August 02, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics
August 02, 2024
A famine-stricken camp in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region is facing a significant new influx of displaced people while floods threaten to contaminate water and
August 02, 2024
The Libyan Investment Authority is expecting U.N. sign-off by the end of the year to actively manage its $70 billion in assets for the first time in
August 02, 2024U.S. officials are warning that a newly confirmed famine in Sudan's Darfur region is on pace to become the world's worst in decades
August 02, 2024
Powerful and politically-connected "construction mafias" are scaring away investors and holding back infrastructure projects needed to grow South Africa's economy
August 02, 2024
Brazil's Petrobras will include at least one partner in its bid for a 40% stake in Galp Energia's Mopane oil prospect in Namibia, two sources with
August 02, 2024
At least 37 civilians were killed and 212 were injured in an explosion at a popular beach restaurant in the Somali capital late on Friday, the health minister said, an attack the
August 02, 2024
Gambia has been rocked in recent months by a heated debate on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice rooted in concepts about sexual purity and control of women
August 03, 2024
At least 32 killed after suicide bombers target beach restaurant in Somali capital
August 03, 2024
Police in Somalia say 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu
August 03, 2024
Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria has clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics following days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender have exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports
August 03, 2024
Here is a look at major disasters in soccer stadiums over recent decades after 56 people were killed during a stadium crush in Guinea sparked by an on-field controversy.
December 02, 2024
Nigeria's police on Saturday arrested dozens of protesters and fired teargas to disperse those trying to march to government offices in the
August 03, 2024
Two men claiming to be Russian nationals and saying they were taken captive in Niger by militants linked to al-Qaida have appeared in a video published on a media platform affiliated to the extremist group
August 03, 2024Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wins quarterfinal bout and guarantees herself an Olympic medal
August 03, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu called on Sunday for a suspension of protests against a cost of living crisis, saying this would create an opportunity for dialogue,
August 04, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit three African countries this week in an effort to drum up support for Kyiv's position in its war with Russia, his ministry said on
August 04, 2024
Libya's internationally recognised government condemned on Sunday attempts to shut operations at the Sharara oil field, describing them as "political blackmail".
August 04, 2024Kaylia Nemour of Algeria delivered the country’s first gold medal in gymnastics, putting together a thrilling routine in the uneven bars final to edge Qiu Qiyuan of China
August 04, 2024
An international aid group says it was forced to ration malnutrition treatment for children in a famine-hit area in Sudan's Darfur region because of a blockade imposed by a notorious paramilitary group on the area
August 04, 2024
Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur's Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special
August 04, 2024
Mali is immediately cutting diplomatic ties with Ukraine over
August 04, 2024Mali severs diplomatic relations with Ukraine for providing intelligence to rebels for Wagner ambush
August 05, 2024Protests in Nigeria over the soaring cost of living ebbed on Monday, with only a few hundred people turning out in major cities following a deadly crackdown by security
August 05, 2024
Nearly 100 police officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in Congo's east
August 05, 2024
Ethiopia has imported 14 million litres of cooking oil to ensure sufficient supplies of the basic commodity, its trade minister said, after the country's central bank floated
August 05, 2024
Police arrested 14 Ugandan opposition officials and supporters on Monday as they marched through their capital towards the Kenyan embassy to protest against Nairobi's decision to
August 05, 2024
Nigeria, Australia and several other countries warn about travel to UK amid riots
August 05, 2024Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who has faced misconceptions about her gender, will fight Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand in the women’s 66-kilogram semifinals Tuesday
August 05, 2024
From Nigeria to London: Nelly Agbogu is on a mission to elevate African small businesses
August 05, 2024
A Tunisian court on Monday sentenced four potential presidential election candidates to eight months in prison and banned them from running for office on a charge of
August 05, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Chad’s military was responsible for the deaths of several detainees who were arrested after protests in October 2022
August 06, 2024
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon opened her bid to win a third straight Olympic 1,500-meter title, turning the page on a drama-filled night that ultimately ended with a medal for her
August 06, 2024
Nigeria has detained some tailors for making Russian flags that were waved during anti-government protests this week in northern states, the state
August 06, 2024
Senior United Nations officials appealed to the Security Council on Tuesday for help in getting humanitarian aid access in Sudan "across borders, across
August 06, 2024
Niger's junta on Tuesday cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine over remarks from officials it said showed Ukraine's support for groups involved in fighting in neighbouring Mali that
August 06, 2024
Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi is accusing former leader Joseph Kabila of backing a U.S.-sanctioned coalition of rebel groups
August 06, 2024Egypt's local currency is sliding against the U.S. dollar after recent increases in fuel prices and subway fares
August 06, 2024
South Africa is moving ahead with implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill, President Cyril Ramaphosa said, despite strong opposition from
August 07, 2024
Uganda's central bank reduced its key lending rate by 25 basis points to 10.00% on Wednesday, saying a recovery in the shilling currency had led to an
August 07, 2024Comoros President Azali Assoumani has granted sweeping new powers to his son, Nour El Fath, allowing him to intervene at all stages of government decision making,
August 07, 2024
Nigeria has arrested seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week in the northern state of Kano, Peter Afunanya, a
August 07, 2024
Women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics has highlighted the complexity of drafting and enforcing sex eligibility rules for women's sports and how athletes like Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan are left vulnerable in the fallout
August 07, 2024
Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has become a hometown hero in Algeria, a conservative, Muslim-majority country where attacks on her gender have been interpreted as attacks on the nation
August 07, 2024
Inflation is expected to have declined for a fifth month in July, despite higher higher food, tobacco and fuel prices, as IMF efforts to control monetary policy have started to take
August 07, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization says he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency
August 07, 2024
Forensic teams in the Dominican Republic are working to identify the remains of 14 West African people found aboard a boat that drifted near the Caribbean country's northern
August 08, 2024Chadian police have arrested the editor-in-chief of a major Chadian news website, a group of online media outlets said late on Wednesday, a week after the suspension of his
August 08, 2024Like thousands of Nigerians and millions of others across the developing world, higher fuel costs have irked Antonia Arosanwo.
August 08, 2024
At least 20 people were killed when a wooden boat caught fire and exploded on a river in Nigeria's coastal state of Bayelsa on Wednesday, a police spokesperson said
August 08, 2024Police fired tear gas to clear pockets of anti-government demonstrators from the centre of Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday, as their protest movement sought to
August 08, 2024
Kenyan youth call for ‘mother of all protests’ as president swears in new cabinet
August 08, 2024
The search for a French rugby player missing after being swept away by a wave while swimming in the sea off Cape Town continued on Thursday as condolences were sent to his family
August 08, 2024Somalia's cabinet approved a bill on Thursday that, if confirmed by parliament, will revert the country's election system to universal suffrage for the first time in decades,
August 08, 2024
Africa's public health agency is set to declare an mpox emergency as early as next week, saying the viral infection's rate of spread is alarming, as a new variant moves across
August 08, 2024A top U.N. counterterrorism official has told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist groups
August 08, 2024
A crude oil tanker has reported four attacks off Yemen's port of Mokha during the last 24 hours, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Friday, and the vessel's
August 08, 2024Importers of low-value parcels destined for South Africa will soon pay value added tax, the country's tax authority said, as an interim measure to protect a
August 08, 2024A U.S. jury has convicted former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang in a financial conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “tuna bond” scandal
August 08, 2024
Former FIFA interim president and long-time leader of African soccer Issa Hayatou has died
August 08, 2024
Burkina Faso's junta has urged its citizens to report suspicious neighbours and activity in the name of national security as the Sahel nation battles a near decade-long jihadist
August 08, 2024Disney plans to spend at least $1 billion every year in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa over the next five years to produce movies and TV shows, a company spokesperson told
August 09, 2024
In Zimbabwe, increased wildlife activity near people mean that children are at risk of attacks by animals while walking long distances to and from school
August 09, 2024
The Sudanese government said on Friday it will send a delegation to Jeddah to consult with the United States regarding an invitation to ceasefire talks in Geneva to be held on August 14.
August 09, 2024When fighters from Sudan's Rapid Support Forces began seizing vehicles from people in Sharafat Alhalaween village, local elders
August 09, 2024Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has secured his party's support to run for a second term in next year's election, but his chances of retaining power may depend on his Malawi
August 09, 2024Days after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Nigeria to protest against inflation and other economic hardships, clothing seller Michael Nwankwo
August 09, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics
August 09, 2024
The foreign ministers of Somalia and Ethiopia will meet in Ankara next week to discuss disagreements over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland
August 09, 2024
Sweden's ambassador to Bamako, Kristina Kuhnel, has been ordered to leave the West African Sahel nation within 72 hours, Mali's foreign ministry said on Friday, because of what it
August 09, 2024In Kenya, where sickle cell cases are high but resources are scarce, CNN Hero Lea Kilenga is getting patients the care they desperately need.
August 09, 2024
The United Nations refugee agency says flood conditions in Sudan are hindering the delivery of aid to areas where many are already facing starvation and famine, including to a camp for those who have fled the ongoing fighting in North Darfur
August 09, 2024
Nigerian police investigate killing of trans TikToker Abuja Area Mama
August 09, 2024At least 30 people have been killed in Nigeria's Benue state, after suspected bandits attacked a village, the state information commissioner said on Friday.
August 09, 2024Dozens of Russian fighters were killed in confrontation with rebel groups in Mali amid speculation that Ukrainian intelligence played a role.
August 09, 2024Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wins Olympic gold after social media firestorm
August 09, 2024
Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics to end Kenya’s dominance of the race
August 10, 2024
A military court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 24 soldiers to lengthy prison terms for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of President
August 10, 2024Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won gold in the men's marathon at the Paris Games on Saturday while Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an
August 10, 2024Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation
August 10, 2024
A landslide at a landfill in Uganda's capital Kampala has killed eight people, the city's authorities said on Saturday.
August 10, 2024A Sierra Leonean military court has convicted 24 soldiers of their roles in last year's attempted coup
August 10, 2024
The ritualized circumcision of thousands of boys, known as Imbalu, began Aug. 3 in a remote corner of Uganda and will continue until the end of 2024
August 11, 2024
Sudan's consultations with the U.S. concluded without reaching an agreement on whether a delegation representing the army or the government will participate in peace talks in Geneva
August 11, 2024The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda's capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig
August 11, 2024
CNN Hero Lea Kilenga lost friends and family to sickle cell, a disease that she also suffers from. She returned to her home county in Kenya to connect people with care and fight the stigma.
August 11, 2024At least 18 people were killed when a landfill collapsed in the Ugandan capital, according to the Red Cross
August 11, 2024
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was sworn into office on Sunday for a five-year term, after a landslide win in last month's election extended his near quarter
August 11, 2024Africa's top public health body declared what it termed a "public health emergency of continental security" on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from the
August 13, 2024A second round of Turkish-mediated talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the
August 13, 2024At least 68 people have been killed during a heavier than usual rainy season in Sudan this year, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, as shelters collapsed and neighbourhoods
August 13, 2024A Cameroonian social media activist and government critic has not been seen since his arrest three weeks ago and his lawyers believe he has been extrajudicially returned to
August 13, 2024South Africa's official unemployment rate rose for the third quarter in a row, reaching 33.5% in April-June of this year, data from the statistics agency showed on
August 13, 2024The International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged countries to step up their donations in response to the world's largest displacement crisis in Sudan, warning on Tuesday
August 13, 2024
A Ugandan court on Tuesday found a commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Thomas Kwoyelo, guilty of dozens of war crimes, the first time a senior
August 13, 2024Several leaders of Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA and hundreds of their supporters were released on Tuesday after mass arrests over a banned
August 13, 2024A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group has been convicted of dozens of crimes against humanity in a key moment of justice for many in Uganda who suffered decades of its brutal insurgency
August 13, 2024
Zambia will reopen its border with Democratic Republic of Congo after sealing it at the weekend due to protests, blocking a key export route for the world's second largest copper
August 12, 2024The health of detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, has deteriorated in a Nigerian prison where he faces money laundering charges, his wife said on Monday.
August 12, 2024Talks to end Sudan's 16-month war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will move forward this week, the U.S.'s special envoy said, despite little
August 12, 2024Police arrested senior leaders of Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA and hundreds of its supporters ahead of a meeting in the southwest of the country
August 12, 2024Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya.
August 12, 2024Vaccines to help curb an escalating mpox outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries may still not reach the central African country for
August 14, 2024Zambia's central bank kept its benchmark lending rate unchanged on Wednesday, saying that although inflation remained high its stance was appropriate given the
August 14, 2024Namibia's central bank cut its main interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, citing a slowdown in inflation and inflation expectations.
August 14, 2024Gunmen kidnapped two South Korean missionaries in northern Kenya, near the border of Ethiopia, on Monday evening while eight Kenyans were shot dead in a separate
August 14, 2024Ghana's consumer inflation slowed for a fourth consecutive month in July, to 20.9% year on year from 22.8% in June, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
August 14, 2024The World Health Organization has declared the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders
August 14, 2024
North Darfur’s remaining hospital risks closure as Sudan’s civil war intensifies
August 14, 2024
A rebel group controlling Sudan's Nuba Mountains and parts of Blue Nile state said on Wednesday that the local population was experiencing a hunger catastrophe.
August 14, 2024Talks aimed at ending Sudan's shattering 16-month-old civil war began on Wednesday in Switzerland although the absence of the military dampened hopes for imminent steps to alleviate
August 14, 2024
Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday withdrew a proposed law that would have imposed punishments of up to 10 years in jail for actions deemed subversive
August 14, 2024Nigerian army troops have destroyed at least 27 illicit refining sites and seized stolen crude oil following raids this week on illegal oil bunkering sites in the
August 14, 2024A group of foreign holders of Ethiopia's $1 billion international bond said on Wednesday it was disappointed with recent
August 14, 2024The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency
August 14, 2024
Suspected jihadists ambushed a military convoy carrying more than 1,000 civilians in Burkina Faso last week, leading to civilian deaths and injuries, the regional governor said in a
August 14, 2024UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns
August 14, 2024
The first day of U.S.-led peace talks aimed at finding a solution to Sudan’s brutal conflict concluded in Geneva with the country’s military absent and the other warring party’s participation unclear
August 14, 2024
A spokesperson for Mali's Tuareg rebel alliance said it received no external assistance in fighting in late July that dealt a significant blow to Mali's army and its
August 14, 2024Chad opened on Wednesday a consulate in Western Sahara, joining African and Arab countries that have established diplomatic missions there in a sign of support for Morocco's claim to
August 14, 2024Egyptian Mohannad Abdelazeem, 35, doesn't drink alcohol.
August 15, 2024South Africa's Reserve Bank is expected to cut interest rates for the first time in more than two years - by 25 basis points to 8.00% - on Sept. 19, according to a Reuters
August 15, 2024Nigeria's headline inflation rate fell in July for the first time in well over a year, dipping to 33.40% in annual terms from 34.19% in June, data from the
August 15, 2024The deputy leader of South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Thursday he was resigning to join the party led by former president Jacob Zuma,
August 15, 2024Sudan's sovereign council said on Thursday it would allow the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad for three months - a move long waited by aid agencies seeking to send aid
August 15, 2024The World Health Organization had declared mpox a global health threat in 2022 and 2024. While most mpox infections are mild, some can be fatal, and cases are spreading in Africa.
August 15, 2024
A Burkina Faso-based investigative newspaper is suspending publication following the kidnapping of its publishing director, the media outlet said on Wednesday.
August 15, 2024The global vaccine group Gavi has up to $500 million to spend on getting shots to countries affected by an escalating mpox outbreak in Africa, its chief executive
August 15, 2024Sudanese government agrees to reopen key border crossing for humanitarian aid
August 15, 2024With her face caked in honey and hair smothered in butter, Saba Yilma wafts clouds of fragrant smoke out from under a heavy leather cloak to help moderate the temperature of
August 16, 2024Far more diagnostic kits, treatments and vaccines need to be shipped to Africa to respond adequately to the outbreak of a new strain of the mpox virus
August 16, 2024The humanitarian crisis from the civil war in Sudan is also exacerbating infections including cholera, and the bacterial disease has killed more than 300 people in the region, a World
August 16, 2024African leaders will meet in Zimbabwe on Saturday for a scheduled summit of the 16-nation Southern African Development Community
August 16, 2024
Namibia has resumed imports of live poultry and birds from South Africa, the agriculture ministry said in a statement on Friday.
August 16, 2024The number of people killed when a mountain of garbage collapsed in Uganda's capital last week has risen to 35, 12 of whom were young people, police said on Friday.
August 16, 2024Miss South Africa finalist at center of nationality row to compete in Nigerian pageant instead
August 16, 2024At least 20 students travelling for a convention were kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's north-central state of Benue, the police said on Friday, the latest in a
August 16, 2024A German infection expert on Friday called for existing mpox vaccine supplies to be shipped to Africa, where they would have the greatest potential to tackle the disease, even
August 16, 2024The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission
August 16, 2024
A Chinese firm at the heart of a legal dispute with Nigeria has released a government-owned jet seized on its behalf by a French court as a "gesture of goodwill" to
August 16, 2024African Voices goes into the octagon to explore mixed martial arts with South African middleweight UFC champion Dricus Du Plessis. CNN’s Larry Madowo spoke with him a few months after his title fight against American Sean Strickland to discuss his historic win, his journey, and what’s in store for his next fight.
August 19, 2024
At least six Burkina Faso magistrates have been conscripted to serve in the military this month for taking action against pro-junta activists and other individuals, three unions of
August 16, 2024Johannesburg elected a new mayor on Friday, the seventh in three years to lead South Africa's biggest city as residents complain of worsening crime and basic
August 16, 2024
Uganda handed over the almost 100 Congolese police officers who had fled across the border to Kanungu district in southwestern Uganda to escape fighting between M23 rebels and Congo's
August 16, 2024Gunmen in northern Nigeria have ambushed vehicles conveying some university students and abducted 20 of them
August 16, 2024An outpouring of fans greeted Algerian boxer Imane upon arrival back in her hometown on Friday and at a parade in Tiaret, the nearby regional capital
August 17, 2024
A humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo is contributing to mpox outbreaks there and elsewhere in Africa that have been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization
August 17, 2024
About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc
August 17, 2024
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif honored by celebratory parade on return home from Paris Olympics
August 17, 2024
Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary group have rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children
August 17, 2024
Four years after the military ousted Mali’s then-president and came to power, many residents say economic troubles are worsening and constant power cuts are hurting businesses.
August 18, 2024
Malawi's main opposition party, the Democratic Progress Party endorsed on Sunday former President Peter Mutharika to be its candidate in next year's presidential election.
August 18, 2024
Sudan's government said it will send a delegation to Cairo for discussions with U.S. and Egyptian officials on Monday, keeping open the question of participation in peace talks aimed
August 18, 2024
A cholera outbreak has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more recently in Sudan, which has been roiled by a 16-month conflict and devastating floods
August 18, 2024
In eight years of working as a taxi driver in Kenya's capital, Judith Chepkwony has never seen business this bad.
August 19, 2024
Kenya's government will have to bring back some tax measures that it scrapped after deadly protests in June, the finance minister said, raising the risk of further unrest.
August 19, 2024
Dricus du Plessis retains UFC middleweight belt against Israel Adesanya, who touted Africa as the winner
August 19, 2024
Congo's health minister says the country will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States
August 19, 2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive its first doses of an mpox vaccine by next week, following promises from the United States and Japan to help it fight its outbreak,
August 19, 2024
Kenya’s new finance minister says some of the proposed taxes that led to weeks of deadly protests earlier this year will be reintroduced through a tax amendment bill as the country struggles to find revenue to pay off debts
August 19, 2024
The Malawian government has received an insurance payout of $11.2 million for an El Nino-linked drought that led to a disaster declaration in the southern African nation
August 19, 2024
Joe Biden headed to Angola on Sunday for a trip that will deliver on a promise to visit Africa during his presidency and focus on a major
December 01, 2024
Kenya's top court on Tuesday suspended a lower court's ruling that the 2023 finance law was unconstitutional, saying it was important to preserve stability in
August 20, 2024
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has broken ground on the construction of a 300,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery that the government hopes will turn the
August 20, 2024
A man arrested on suspicion of killing a number of women and dumping their bodies in an old quarry escaped from police custody in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday, police said
August 20, 2024Police officials in Kenya say a suspect who confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies has escaped from police custody
August 20, 2024
Egypt's foreign debt fell by $7.4 billion in the first three months of 2024, according to central bank data released on Tuesday.
August 20, 2024
Justine Munguiko could not recall the name of the disease she had been warned about.
August 20, 2024
Qatar Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the private African carrier Airlink
August 20, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African countries could start vaccinating against mpox within days, Africa's top public health agency said on
August 20, 2024
African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’
August 20, 2024
The top U.N. official in Libya is warning that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there will be greater instability
August 20, 2024
In Zimbabwe’s wildlife-rich but poverty stricken Chiredzi district, an ex-poacher recently released from prison now preaches the gospel of conservation
August 21, 2024
Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on
August 21, 2024
The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the U.N.
August 21, 2024
Congo has recorded 1,030 of the 1,405 new mpox cases in Africa over the last week
August 21, 2024
Five Kenyan police officers were arraigned on Wednesday, accused of helping a suspected serial killer and 12 others escape from a police station in the capital
August 21, 2024
At least 24 people died after an overloaded boat capsized on a river in Congo's Mai-Ndombe province, and the death toll is expected to rise as many
August 21, 2024Wearing a bulky protective suit and helmet, Mohamed Ahmed inches towards the truck where explosives wired to a mobile phone have been planted in Somalia's capital,
August 22, 2024
Humanitarian aid resumes in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur after 6-month border closure
August 22, 2024
The death toll from a river boat accident in western Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 29 with at least 128 survivors identified and an unknown number still
August 22, 2024A fraction of available aid has passed through the Adre border crossing from Chad into Sudan's hunger-ravaged Darfur region this week following a move by the Sudanese army to
August 22, 2024
The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana
August 22, 2024
Gunmen in Nigeria killed at least 10 farmers on Wednesday in an attack on a village in the northern Niger state, residents said.
August 22, 2024A 2010 constitution offered Kenyans economic and social rights that have faded in the face of mounting national debt.
August 22, 2024
Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana
August 22, 2024
Foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that he wanted more African students to come to Italy, in remarks that may exacerbate a coalition squabble
August 22, 2024
For the second consecutive year Sudan is in the grip of a cholera outbreak that has left at least 28 people dead in the last month as rains fall in
August 23, 2024
U.S.-led mediators said on Friday they had secured guarantees from Sudan's warring parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the
August 23, 2024Spanish authorities fear that as many as 150,000 more migrants from Africa may be set to make the perilous crossing this year to the Canary Islands, already
August 23, 2024
Tuareg rebels in northern Mali say they have yet to receive any direct communication from Moscow over the fate of fighters from the Russian mercenary Wagner Group whom they took
August 23, 2024Global credit ratings agency S&P downgraded Kenya's rating on Friday to "B-" from "B," citing the recent repeal of the East African country's 2024/2025 Finance Bill, which it said will
August 23, 2024
Gabon has registered its first case of mpox, the health ministry said in a statement that did not specify which variant of the viral infection was recorded.
August 23, 2024
Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east African country to four, according to the health ministry.
August 24, 2024
Nigerian police authorities have secured the release of 20 students who were kidnapped on their way to a convention in the north-central state of Benue last week,
August 24, 2024The northern bald ibis, or the Waldrapp, once soared over North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Europe
August 25, 2024
Renewed fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo's army and M23 rebels broke out on Sunday around a densely populated town in eastern North
August 25, 2024At least 21 people, including 11 children, were killed by drone strikes on Sunday on the town of Tinzaouaten in north Mali, near where the army suffered a heavy blow last month,
August 25, 2024Nigerian police said two of its officers were killed and three left unconscious after an attack involving knives and explosives by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in
August 25, 2024Airstrikes on a village in northern Mali near the Algerian border have killed 21 civilians, including 11 children
August 25, 2024Hundreds of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said.
August 26, 2024
Sudan’s health ministry says a dam has collapsed due to heavy rainfall in the eastern Red Sea state, sending water flooding over nearby homes
August 26, 2024
Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the
August 26, 2024
The two main contenders in Ghana's presidential election have launched duelling manifestos promising fiscal stability, jobs and a path out of the
August 26, 2024
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez starts his second visit this year to West Africa on Tuesday, aiming to curb migration to
August 26, 2024
Denmark will close its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso after a series of military coups over the past few years, the Danish foreign ministry said on Monday, as it formally
August 26, 2024
Nigeria's economy grew 3.19% in the second quarter of 2024 compared with the same quarter last year, lifted by higher crude oil production and the performance of
August 26, 2024
At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis
August 26, 2024At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the National Emergency
August 26, 2024Police say nine men have died after a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia
August 26, 2024Officials in Spain say thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls
August 26, 2024
Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United
August 26, 2024
Kenyan police deployed to Haiti haven’t received full promised salary in two months
August 26, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu named new homeland security and foreign intelligence chiefs on Monday, a week after their predecessors resigned abruptly, as Africa's most populous
August 26, 2024
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the
August 26, 2024
At least 30 dead after dam collapses in Sudan, UN agency says
August 26, 2024
Scientists studying the new mpox strain that has spread out of Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is changing faster than
August 27, 2024
Spain’s prime minister has announced a series of agreements with the West African nation of Mauritania to stem a surge in migrants making the dangerous Atlantic journey to the Canary Islands
August 27, 2024
A Tunisian court on Tuesday upheld an appeal by prominent opposition politician Abdellatif Mekki, allowing him to resume his bid for the presidency in an election expected on Oct. 6,
August 27, 2024
A Cameroonian social media activist and government critic who disappeared last month has been located in a security cell of the military court in Yaoundé, Cameroon's capital, with signs of
August 27, 2024A U.N. agency says that the collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend has flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people
August 27, 2024
A leading African scientist says the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease
August 27, 2024
Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought
August 27, 2024
U.N. agencies on Tuesday raised the alarm about the spread of mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo's refugee camps where people are more susceptible to infection
August 27, 2024
Emergency responders were scrambling on Tuesday to find out how many people remain missing after waters burst through a dam in eastern Sudan, resulting in
August 27, 2024
Flooding kills scores as Sudan grapples with civil war
August 27, 2024
On the rugby field as well as on the streets of the Spanish island of Tenerife, Moussa Diaby Wage is one of thousands of migrants from Mali
August 27, 2024
At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, authorities say
August 27, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China next week to discuss cooperation on the economy, agriculture and satellite
August 27, 2024
More than 31.8 million Nigerians are acutely short of food due to security challenges and the removal of fuel subsidies, the government said on Tuesday, citing a
August 27, 2024
A United Nations Security Council committee is considering sanctioning two generals with Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for threatening
August 27, 2024Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week
August 27, 2024
Hundreds were killed in north-central Burkina Faso on Saturday after suspected jihadists opened fire on them as they were digging trenches around a town to
August 27, 2024Prosecutors are calling for for 50 people, including three Americans, to face the death penalty for what the Congolese army says was a coup attempt earlier this year
August 27, 2024
A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on
August 27, 2024
The discovery of increased reserves of crude oil in Namibia has sparked interest in Namibian assets, with an index fund tracking local government bonds poised for its
August 28, 2024
A group of Polish students who were arrested in Nigeria have been released, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said on Wednesday.
August 28, 2024Here is a timeline chronicling Libya's years of chaos and division: 2011 - Revolt and civil war An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming
August 28, 2024
Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in more than four decades on Tuesday, three diplomatic and Somali government sources said, a
August 28, 2024
Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, after the World Health Organization declared it a global public health emergency
August 28, 2024
Namibia plans to kill more than 700 animals including elephants and hippos — and distribute the meat
August 28, 2024
Africa has secured less than 10% of the estimated $245 million it needs to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, a senior official from the Africa Centres for Disease
August 28, 2024
CNN's Larry Madowo explains why Namibia plans to kill more than 700 wild animals and distribute the meat to the people struggling with food insecurity as the country grapples with its worst drought in 100 years.
August 28, 2024
Chinese lenders approved loans worth $4.61 billion to Africa last year, marking the first annual increase since 2016, an independent study showed on Thursday.
August 28, 2024
The Tunisian Administrative Court upheld on Thursday an appeal by prominent candidate Mondher Znaidi, thereby allowing him to return to the presidential race expected
August 29, 2024Nigeria and Niger have signed a deal to boost their security cooperation, the Nigerian military said on Thursday, despite tensions between the neighbours since a
August 29, 2024More than half of Libya's oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff
August 29, 2024
At least 179 people have died and tens of thousands been displaced in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Thursday.
August 29, 2024Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water mixed in with milk from his last surviving
August 29, 2024
An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday's devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the
August 29, 2024
Egypt could begin transitioning from subsidising essential commodities to providing direct cash assistance to its poorest citizens as early as the next fiscal year (July to June),
August 29, 2024
Libya's central bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank staff had been forced to leave the country to "protect our lives" from potential attacks by armed militia, the
August 30, 2024
South Africa's phase-out of
August 30, 2024
U.S. jobs numbers dominate the agenda as markets brace for a choppy September, with France seeking a way through its political mess, Germany having regional polls and African leaders
August 30, 2024
The United Nations has released $100 million to support 10 underfunded humanitarian crises in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, the U.N. said on Friday.
August 30, 2024
The Tunisian administrative court upheld on Friday an appeal by prominent politician Imed Daimi to be allowed to return to the race for the presidential election expected on Oct.
August 30, 2024The head of the World Health Organization believes the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa might be stopped in the next six months
August 30, 2024
A struggle to control the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) has already sparked a blockade of oil production and it threatens the worst crisis in years for the major energy
August 30, 2024
A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching through bodies to find her brothers, in an interview
August 30, 2024
The Libyan oil export port of Hariga has stopped operating due to insufficient crude supplies, two engineers at the terminal told Reuters on Saturday, as a standoff between rival political
August 31, 2024The New Development Bank has approved a new loan of up to $1 billion to finance water and sanitation projects among poorer households in South Africa, the bank said in a statement
August 31, 2024
A year since a military coup in Gabon ended the Bongo dynasty's 56-year rule, the country marked the anniversary in festive mood this week with
August 31, 2024
Algeria has been authorised to become a member of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), the bank's president, Dilma Rousseff, said on Saturday.
August 31, 2024
Nigeria will begin vaccinations for mpox from October 8 after regulatory approvals are concluded, a spokesperson for the country's National Primary Health Care
August 31, 2024
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine alliance, Africa CDC and
August 31, 2024
Libyan authorities have dismantled a human trafficking network operating in the country's southwest and arrested members of the group, the country's Attorney General's office said on
August 31, 2024Gabon's junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its full
September 01, 2024
California lawmakers passed just one part of a three-bill package addressing reparations for slavery and racism in the waning days of their state house session, amid
September 01, 2024
China will urge a summit of 50 African nations in Beijing this week to take more of its goods, before Western curbs kick in on its exports such
September 01, 2024
Libyan officials say one of the country's most wanted human trafficker was killed Sunday in the capital, Tripoli
September 01, 2024Indonesia plans to sign business deals worth $3.5 billion with African countries as it hosts the second Indonesia-Africa Forum in the resort island of Bali, the Southeast Asian
September 02, 2024Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of
September 02, 2024
Tunisian police arrested presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel on Monday, a member of his campaign told Reuters, amid growing fears among rights groups and the
September 02, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told China's Xi Jinping on Monday he wanted to narrow his country's trade deficit with Beijing, days before the Chinese leader is
September 02, 2024
Oil activities on the shores of Uganda’s Lake Albert have triggered widespread suffering among locals facing forced displacement and other violent abuses, a U.S. climate watchdog said Monday
September 02, 2024
Authorities say a Kenyan man wanted in Massachusetts to face murder charges has been extradited nearly a year after he fled the United States
September 02, 2024
Beauty queen at center of South Africa xenophobia spat crowned Miss Universe Nigeria
September 02, 2024
Nigeria on Monday charged 10 people with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny following last month's nationwide demonstrations that saw thousands
September 02, 2024
Tunisia's electoral commission rejected on Monday an administrative court ruling reinstating three presidential election candidates, reinforcing opposition fears that the commission
September 02, 2024The Central Bank of Egypt CBE will leave its overnight interest rates unchanged when its monetary policy committee meets on Thursday as inflation continues to decline, a poll of
September 02, 2024
Authorities in Congo say two inmates were killed when detainees tried to break out of the main prison in capital Kinshasa
September 02, 2024Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained in Nigeria since February, made a fresh bail application on medical grounds on Monday but lawyers for the country's
September 02, 2024
At least 10 protesters in Nigeria are facing a possible death penalty after being charged with treason over their participation in recent demonstrations against the country’s worst-in-a-generation economic crisis
September 02, 2024Congo's eastern city of Goma held a memorial service on Monday for 200 victims of the conflict between the army and rebels that are waging a renewed insurgency in the vast central African
September 02, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo's government said at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from the central Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa early on Monday,
September 03, 2024Congolese authorities say that an attempted jailbreak in the country's main prison has left 129 people dead, including some who were shot and others who died in a stampede at the overcrowded facility
September 03, 2024
Six people wanted for murder and extortion were killed in a shootout with South African police in the city of Durban late on Monday, police said.
September 03, 2024South Africa's economic growth picked up in the second quarter, supported by higher consumer spending and power availability, but output declines
September 03, 2024
A Ugandan athlete has been attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is being treated for burns on 75% of her body
September 03, 2024
One of the worst massacres in Burkina Faso's history has provoked a fierce public outcry from victims' relatives and religious leaders, piling pressure on
September 03, 2024
At least 129 killed during mass prison break attempt in DR Congo
September 03, 2024
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and set shops and homes
September 03, 2024
A year after Morocco's devastating earthquake in the High Atlas mountains only some 1,000 homes out of 55,000 under reconstruction have been rebuilt, according to
September 03, 2024
African immigrant students sometimes experience negative stereotyping, marginalization and low expectations from teachers. But emerging research shows they are being mischaracterized.
September 03, 2024
Libyan authorities say a boat carrying Europe-bound migrants has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving one person dead and 22 missing
September 03, 2024A former top official at South Africa’s state-owned passenger railway company has received a 15-year concurrent prison sentence for faking his engineering qualifications and other cases of fraud
September 03, 2024
A Nigerian court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a British national and two Nigerians the police want to charge with treason and inciting the army following
September 03, 2024
Uganda's main opposition leader Bobi Wine, who has emerged as the most formidable opponent of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, was shot in the leg by security agents in a northern
September 03, 2024
Uganda's leading opposition figure Bobi Wine has been shot in the leg and “seriously injured” in a confrontation with police outside the capital, Kampala
September 03, 2024
Federal prosecutors have dropped their criminal case against a Maryland attorney whom they accused of engaging in a scheme to fraudulently access more than $12.5 million in Somali government assets
September 03, 2024China vowed to encourage its more "powerful" companies to invest in Nigeria, which in turn said it was open to Chinese companies building factories
September 03, 2024
Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine ‘seriously injured’ during police confrontation, his party says
September 03, 2024
China kicks off major African summit as it seeks to woo leaders amid pressure from the West
September 03, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will open the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit on Thursday, where he is expected to urge African leaders gathered in Beijing
September 04, 2024
China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese
September 04, 2024
Kenya's private sector activity picked up in August as firms recovered from disruption caused by anti-government protests the previous month, a survey showed on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
South African private sector activity rose in August as firms received higher volumes of new orders for the first time since April 2023, a survey showed on Wednesday.
September 04, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo, epicentre of an mpox outbreak that prompted a U.N. declaration of a global public health emergency, said it expects to
September 04, 2024
Residents in northeastern Nigeria say at least 100 villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram Islamic extremists opened fire on a market, on worshippers and in people’s homes
September 04, 2024
South African business confidence rose in the third quarter, helped by improving optimism about the business climate after the formation of a coalition government and stable electricity
September 04, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Wednesday ordered the detention of presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel pending trial, the latest move in what critics call manoeuvres
September 04, 2024
A China-Africa summit in Beijing this week takes place as a continent slowly emerging from a series of defaults seeks to define its future cooperation with the
September 04, 2024
Families of those killed in what officials called an attempted jailbreak in Congo’s biggest prison are demanding answers as activists denounce what they say are inhumane conditions in the nation’s overcrowded penitentiaries
September 04, 2024
Binance's head of financial compliance Tigran Gambaryan, on trial for money laundering in Nigeria, will know on Oct. 9 whether he will be released on bail or remain in prison custody
September 04, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that South Africa needed to pursue ambitious fiscal consolidation to restore the sustainability of its
September 04, 2024
Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa's main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its determination to withdraw
September 04, 2024President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday to step up China's support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly $51 billion over three years, backing
September 05, 2024
African countries' inadequate access to debt relief and scarce resources is a recipe for social unrest, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on
September 05, 2024
China-Africa ties ‘best in history’ claims Xi as Beijing pushes back on Western debt trap criticism
September 05, 2024
Dozens of African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit that signals China’s influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in pushing back against a U.S.-led global order
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, in
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated for burns over 80% of her body from an attack by her partner
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei dies after being set on fire by boyfriend
September 05, 2024
The impact of global warming is costing African nations up to 5% of their economic output, the United Nations climate chief said on Thursday, calling for more
September 05, 2024
South Africa's current account deficit narrowed in the second quarter, to 0.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) from 1.5% of GDP in the first quarter, central bank data showed
September 05, 2024
The Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive its first batch of 100,000 mpox vaccines from the European Union on Thursday, with a second delivery expected in the coming days
September 05, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo received its first batch of mpox vaccines on Thursday, which health authorities hope will help curb an outbreak
September 05, 2024
Ugandan Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically passed away days after suffering severe burns from an attack by her boyfriend. CNN International Correspondent Larry Madowo joins World Sport's Amanda Davies for more.
September 05, 2024
Authorities in Congo say the first batch of mpox vaccine has arrived in Congo’s capital, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency
September 05, 2024
The World Bank and French Development Agency (AFD) have given Uganda more than $600 million to fund infrastructure development and manage waste in the capital Kampala, the
September 05, 2024
Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s tragic history of domestic violence against female athletes
September 05, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he did not believe Chinese investments in Africa were pushing the continent into a "debt trap" but were
September 05, 2024
Ghana invited holders of roughly $13 billion of its international bonds to swap their holdings for new instruments on Thursday, more than two months after
September 05, 2024Tunisian legal scholars warned on Thursday that the legitimacy of next month's presidential election will be damaged if the electoral commission does not respect court
September 05, 2024
Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was still in detention on Friday despite being released for
September 05, 2024
A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of Friday, police said.
September 06, 2024
Kenya's deputy president says a fire in a school dormitory has killed 18 students and injured 27 others
September 06, 2024
U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war
September 06, 2024
Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect
September 06, 2024
17 students killed in Kenya elementary school fire as officials say 70 remain unaccounted for
September 06, 2024
South Africa’s justice minister has denied corruption allegations against her related to a mutual bank scandal in which thousands of retirees lost their life savings
September 06, 2024
The French capital will pay tribute to Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her boyfriend, by naming a sports facility in her honour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
September 06, 2024
Moureen Atieno Omolo was unable to sleep for days after hearing about the deadly attack on Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, whose former boyfriend doused her in
September 06, 2024
The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox
September 06, 2024
Algerians voted on Saturday in an election in which military-backed President Abdulmadjid Tebboune is widely expected to win a second term, but early turnout
September 06, 2024
Xi Jinping had one message for dozens of visiting African leaders: choose China
September 07, 2024China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries this week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion)
September 07, 2024
Algerians have voted in an election to decide whether army-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gets another term in office — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power
September 07, 2024
Officials say the number of children who were burned to death in a school dormitory in central Kenya has risen to 21
September 07, 2024
Authorities say a vaccination campaign against mpox in Congo will begin Oct. 2, with workers focusing on the three most affected provinces first
September 07, 2024
Fire contained at girls’ school in Kenya a day after blaze at boys’ dormitory that killed 21
September 07, 2024Libya’s chief prosecutor has ordered the detention of a militia leader and one of his aides pending an investigation into the killing of one of the country’s most notorious human traffickers
September 08, 2024Algerian presidential candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif's campaign said in a statement on Sunday that it had recorded cases of violations in the country's Saturday presidential
September 08, 2024
A fire broke out at a girls' boarding school in a town in central Kenya late on Saturday, leaving at least three students injured and destroying property, the Kenya Red Cross and
September 08, 2024Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues
September 08, 2024
A senior United Nations official says more than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that wrecked the northeastern African country
September 08, 2024Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday's election on Sunday, but a rival candidate alleged irregularities
September 08, 2024
Paris pays tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei who died after allegedly being set on fire by her boyfriend
September 08, 2024
Floods from torrential rains killed at least 11 people in the provinces of Tata, Tiznit and Errachidia in south Morocco, authorities said in a preliminary death toll on Sunday.
September 08, 2024After being declared the winner of Algeria’s election, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has joined his two challengers in criticizing the country’s election authority for announcing results that contradicted earlier turnout figures and local tallies
September 08, 2024
At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state's disaster
September 08, 2024Nigeria's emergency response agency says a fuel tanker has collided head-on with another truck causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people
September 08, 2024The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and
September 09, 2024At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed an assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a
September 09, 2024
At least six people died after a boat capsized off Senegal over the weekend, a spokesperson for the West African country's armed forces said on Monday.
September 09, 2024Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.63 tons of cocaine found on an airplane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country's capital, the judicial police said.
September 09, 2024Nigeria's state security service arrested the president of its largest labour federation on Monday on charges that are yet to be disclosed, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said.
September 09, 2024Forty-seven inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison in Liberia's Margibi County, a rural area east of the West African country's capital Monrovia, the justice ministry
September 09, 2024Authorities in Liberia say that dozens of inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison outside the country's capital over the weekend
September 09, 2024Floods from torrential rains killed at least 18 people in the southern Morocco provinces of Tata, Tiznit, Errachidia, Tinghir and Taroudant, authorities said in a latest
September 09, 2024At least 21 killed in airstrike on Sudanese market as civil war rages
September 09, 2024
Election officials in Tunisia have doubled down on their decision to deny accreditation to certain election observer groups
September 09, 2024
Torrential downpours hit North Africa’s normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend
September 09, 2024
The man accused of dousing in petrol and setting alight Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from burns sustained during the fatal attack on the
September 10, 2024
Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public
September 10, 2024Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country
September 10, 2024
The Senegalese navy on Tuesday found 17 more bodies from a boat carrying migrants that capsized off the coast, taking the death toll to 26.
September 10, 2024Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two,
December 01, 2024
Mali's government said on Sunday it had killed a senior Tuareg rebel commander and other rebels in a drone strike on a town in the north of the country.
December 01, 2024Biden fulfilling promise to visit Africa as US looks to counter China’s deepening influence in region
December 01, 2024
Ghana's parliament is unlikely to pass a provisional budget before the Dec. 7 general election, former officials and experts say, which risks triggering
December 01, 2024
The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's landslide victory
September 10, 2024
Cameroon’s former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence
September 11, 2024
Kenya’s airport workers’ union has called off a strike that grounded flights in the country’s main airport on Wednesday over awarding the contract for its modernization and operations to an Indian firm
September 11, 2024
Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries presumed dead after a lethal battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali
September 11, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said he would sign into law a disputed education bill, prompting the first sign of real friction in his unity
September 11, 2024
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and crocodiles into neighborhoods
September 11, 2024
A Nigerian judge on Wednesday granted bail to 10 people charged with treason and conspiring to incite the military to mutiny following last month's protests against
September 11, 2024Floods that swept through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state have affected up to 1 million people, the state governor said on Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to
September 11, 2024
Members of Kenya's aviation workers' union have agreed to resume work after spending the day on strike, the head of the country's umbrella trade union organisation said on
September 11, 2024
The flood that crashed through the Libyan town of Derna a year ago killed Hassan Kassar's four children and left him homeless in a wrecked city, where reconstruction has been
September 11, 2024
Burkina Faso's prime minister said on Wednesday scores of civilians killed in an attack by Islamist militants while digging defensive trenches on army orders had not been adequately
September 11, 2024More than a dozen primary school students in Kenya died after a fire ripped through their dormitory. CNN's Larry Madowo has more details about the tragedy.
September 11, 2024
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria
September 11, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo will start its mpox vaccination campaign on Oct. 2, nearly a week earlier than previously planned, the head of its outbreak response said on
September 11, 2024
Algerians expected an uneventful election that would bestow President Abdelmadjid Tebboune a second term
September 11, 2024
The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island
September 12, 2024
Zimbabwean farmers aim to capitalize on increasing global demand for blueberries, but self-funded growers like Willard Zireva cite a lack of finance and minimal
September 12, 2024
Guinea Bissau's President Umaro Cissoko Embalo said on Thursday he would not run for a second term in elections in November.
September 12, 2024
Rich countries have several hundred million doses of vaccines that could help fight an mpox outbreak in Africa, where donated shots fall far short of
September 12, 2024
The South African Reserve Bank will cut its repo rate by 25 basis points to 8.00% at its Sept. 19 meeting as slowing inflation opens the door to easier policy
September 12, 2024
More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison
September 12, 2024The biracial children of Kenyan women and visiting British soldiers have long lived uncomfortable lives in Kenya
December 01, 2024The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in a week, a toll the agency's director-general described as “not acceptable.”
September 12, 2024
Morocco on Thursday confirmed its first Mpox case in a man in Marrakech, the health ministry said.
September 12, 2024
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is able to raise $600 million to fight a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency's head said on Thursday
September 12, 2024
Senegal was hit by a nationwide electricity outage on Thursday following an accident at a power station in the capital, Senegal's power utility Senelec said in a statement.
September 12, 2024Senegal's president has dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament, paving the way for a snap legislative election after he took office on an anti-establishment platform
September 12, 2024
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday dissolved the opposition-led national assembly, clearing the way for early legislative elections on Nov. 17.
September 12, 2024
The United States says it will support the addition of two new permanent seats on the powerful U.N. Security Council for African nations
September 12, 2024
The World Food Program's director is appealing for more money and access to feed 25 million people at risk of famine in Sudan
September 12, 2024Pravin Gordhan, who was a South African government minister for many years after beginning his political career opposing apartheid, has died
September 13, 2024
A team of staff from the International Monetary Fund is visiting Kenya on a fact-finding trip, the IMF said late on Thursday, part of efforts to craft a way forward in the wake of
September 13, 2024
The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — has been received by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial on Saturday
September 13, 2024
The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting against the disease in Africa
September 13, 2024
Botswana's ex-president Ian Khama appeared in court on Friday to face charges of illegally owning a gun and receiving stolen property, after returning from three years in exile
September 13, 2024
Kenya's acting chief of police was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday after he repeatedly defied orders to testify about the whereabouts of three men allegedly abducted by
September 13, 2024South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa defended the durability of his unity government on Friday, after a row over a contentious education bill exposed tensions
September 13, 2024
Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana
September 13, 2024
German and Kenyan officials have signed an agreement to promote the recruitment of skilled Kenyan workers who can fill gaps in Germany’s labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don’t have the right to stay in Germany
September 13, 2024
A military court in Congo has convicted 37 people, including three Americans, on charges of taking part in a coup attempt and sentenced them to death
September 13, 2024
Three U.S. citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court on Friday for their role in a May failed coup in Democratic Republic of
September 13, 2024
South Sudan's government has decided to postpone a long-delayed national election until December 2026, the presidency said on Friday, underscoring the challenges facing the
September 13, 2024Thousands of Tunisians marched in the streets on Friday to protest against President Kais Saied, whom they accuse of trying to rig the Oct. 6 presidential election by
September 13, 2024
President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Angola in coming weeks, fulfilling an earlier promise that would make him the first U.S. head of state to visit sub-
September 13, 2024
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
September 13, 2024
A military court in Congo has convicted dozens of people, including three Americans, for a coup attempt
September 13, 2024
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, more than 430 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya
September 14, 2024
Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was buried
September 14, 2024
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya
September 14, 2024
Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei
September 14, 2024
Germany opens its doors to Kenyan workers in controlled migration deal
September 14, 2024
On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya.
September 14, 2024
Sierra Leone ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in Beyoncé video, dies aged 29
September 14, 2024
Comoros president Azali Assoumani is "out of danger" after he was injured on Friday in a knife attack by a 24-year-old policeman who was found dead in his cell a day later,
September 14, 2024
Algeria's constitutional court confirmed on Saturday that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won a second term with 84.30% of the vote in an election on Sept. 7, state media reported
September 14, 2024
Tunisia's highest court on Saturday ordered the electoral commission to reinstate two candidates for a presidential poll in October, warning that failure to do so
September 14, 2024Algeria's constitutional court has certified President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory in last weekend’s election after re-tabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question
September 14, 2024
South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile was fine after having struggled with the heat while giving a speech on Saturday afternoon, the premier of Limpopo province told state
September 14, 2024
Nigeria's army has rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped in northwest Kaduna state, following a military operation prompted by a tip-off, a government official said
September 14, 2024Roadside explosions in the Somali capital have killed five people and wounded eight others
September 14, 2024Nigeria's army says that troops have rescued 13 hostages who were kidnapped by an extremist group in the northwestern state of Kaduna
September 14, 2024At least three people were killed and 49 others wounded in a collision between two passenger trains in Zagazig city northeast of Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024At least 64 people were feared dead following a boat accident on a river in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, local officials said on Saturday.
September 14, 2024Moroccan authorities on Sunday prevented dozens of migrants from storming a border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after calls on social media for a
September 15, 2024A boat has capsized in northwest Nigeria drowning at least 40 people
September 15, 2024Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday.
September 15, 2024
More than 200 inmates escape as Nigerian prison wall collapses in floods
September 15, 2024
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will introduce new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from a West African bloc in favour of a new Sahel alliance after military leaders
September 15, 2024
Kenya's auditor general has started to examine the country's debt to ascertain the amounts owed to various creditors, Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Monday.
September 16, 2024
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September 16, 2024
Nigerian authorities say 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s northeast
September 16, 2024WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push to start the
September 16, 2024
Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta
September 16, 2024
Zimbabwe to cull 200 elephants to feed citizens left hungry by drought
September 16, 2024
A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete
September 16, 2024
Unidentified armed men killed two police officers on patrol in northeastern Benin near the border with Niger on Sunday, a local official said on Monday.
September 16, 2024South Sudan and Sudan have made progress towards restarting the pumping of South Sudan's crude oil through a pipeline running to a port in its neighbour, South Sudan's finance
September 17, 2024
Mali said on Tuesday that its capital Bamako was under control after insurgents attacked a gendarmerie training school and
September 17, 2024
South Africa's consumer confidence recovered further in the third quarter to its best since 2019, helped by improved willingness to spend and hopes of an interest rate cut in September,
September 17, 2024
Kenya's finance ministry forecasts a fall in the budget deficit to 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2025/26 fiscal year that starts next July, from 4.3% of GDP in the
September 17, 2024
Army troops have subdued Islamic militants who attacked a military training camp and the airport in Mali's capital, but some soldiers were killed
September 17, 2024
Senegal's slower economic growth, its widening fiscal deficit and a potential delay in International Monetary Fund financing could cloud the outlook ahead of Nov.
September 17, 2024
Ten civilians were killed in a midnight attack by the CODECO militia on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, the head of
September 17, 2024In Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many households have limited access to nutrient-rich foods due to rising costs and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems
September 17, 2024
The billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks the richest governments should increase their support for African countries
September 16, 2024
On an island off Africa where one of the local languages has no established words for climate change, a researcher discovers lessons for everyone in discussing climate change.
September 17, 2024
Whitney Houston’s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall
September 17, 2024
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon plans to travel to Africa in mid-October in a push by the biggest U.S. lender to expand on the
September 17, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has held productive discussions with the Kenyan government on its plans to address the country's economic and fiscal challenges,
September 17, 2024
Three Americans sentenced to death in Congo for a coup attempt have filed an appeal
September 17, 2024
Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party on Tuesday held nationwide protests against alleged voter roll irregularities, demanding
September 17, 2024
Zimbabwe and Namibia plan to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries
September 17, 2024
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been sworn in for a second term after being elected in a landslide vote marred by apathy and questions around the vote count
September 17, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Sudan's warring parties to re-engage in negotiations to end a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months.
September 18, 2024
Jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have escalated attacks on civilians, often in retaliation against communities for refusing to join their ranks or allegedly collaborating with
September 18, 2024
Mali's security situation remained unclear on Wednesday after insurgents attacked an elite police training academy and other strategic
September 18, 2024
Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams
September 18, 2024
A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming beside her catamaran in high seas between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa, a police spokesperson said on
September 18, 2024The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries
September 18, 2024
A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 20 months in prison, Zammel's lawyer said, the latest move that has heightened
September 18, 2024Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they are open for peaceful solutions to a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months, in response to U.S.
September 18, 2024
Nigeria has warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon
September 18, 2024
Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher
September 19, 2024
Five months after its launch, Zimbabwe's new currency is under pressure as increased grain imports eat away at foreign reserves, putting at risk the government's
September 19, 2024
When floods swept through Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents to safety.
September 19, 2024
International guarantors of South Sudan's peace process said the transitional government's postponement of elections due in December was disappointing and showed its failure to
September 19, 2024
Turkey aims to meet separately with Somalia and Ethiopia as part of its efforts to resolve a dispute between the sides over a deal that Ethiopia agreed to lease a stretch of
September 19, 2024Angola nearly lost its national animal to poaching. Here’s how a team of dedicated conservationists brought it back
September 19, 2024A candidate for president in Tunisia has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on election fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated
September 19, 2024South Africa's central bank struck a measured tone after its first rate cut in more than four years on Thursday, saying although
September 19, 2024
Calm seas and gentle winds associated with the late summer in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Africa has prompted a renewed surge of migrants heading to the
September 19, 2024
The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) warned on Thursday, adding that cases were still increasing
September 19, 2024
The African health agency says that Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses it obtained from Nigeria
September 19, 2024
Coca-Cola plans to invest $1 billion in its Nigeria operations over the next five years, the country's presidency said after a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and senior
September 19, 2024
An elaborate attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Mali's capital this week killed some 70 people, diplomatic and security sources said on Thursday, while the government offered no figures on
September 19, 2024
Morocco has arrested 152 people, who will now face trial on accusations they used social media to incite an attempt at mass illegal migration into the adjacent
September 20, 2024As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region
September 20, 2024
Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies
September 20, 2024
Ghana's electoral commission on Friday published a list of 13 candidates approved to run in the presidential election, which analysts say will be a two-man race between Vice President
September 20, 2024
It is possible to end the mpox outbreak in Burundi within weeks, a U.N. health official said on Friday, but progress in Africa's second-worst affected country will
September 20, 2024
Monrovia house fire arson investigators find dead body in a shed nearby
September 20, 2024A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of
September 20, 2024
Guinea’s most wanted fugitive, a former senior military officer convicted of crimes against humanity, was extradited from neighboring Liberia, the Guinean minister of justice said Thursday
September 20, 2024The Birimian greenstone belt in West Africa has long been known as region rich in gold, but its potential has yet to be fully unearthed. Now, international and local mining players are driving a modern-day gold rush in Ivory Coast in search of this lucrative metal.
September 20, 2024
The son of Uganda's long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday he had abandoned plans to run for presidency at the next election in 2026, urging his
September 21, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the
September 21, 2024
People living near a chimpanzee research centre in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the centre's managers said.
September 21, 2024Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons
September 21, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya's anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full
September 21, 2024
The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat
September 22, 2024
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied, accusing him of deepening authoritarian rule and stifling political competition two weeks
September 22, 2024
Extremist attacks in the Sahel have been increasing
September 22, 2024Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months
September 23, 2024
Nearly 30,000 suspected mpox cases have been reported in Africa so far this year, most of them in Democratic Republic of Congo where tests have run out, the World Health
September 23, 2024
Tanzanian police arrested three opposition leaders again on Monday, their party and police said, to stop anti-government protests in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
September 23, 2024
The head of South Africa's flagship Black economic empowerment programme plans to introduce additional incentives and potential fines to improve corporate participation and
September 23, 2024
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's economy remains deeply divided by race, spurring political debate on the extent to which its flagship
September 23, 2024
An Egyptian warship has delivered a second major cache of weaponry to Somalia including anti-aircraft guns and artillery, port and military officials said on Monday
September 23, 2024
At least 30 decomposing bodies were found in a boat drifting around 70 km (38 nautical miles) off the coast of Senegal's capital Dakar, the military said on Monday.
September 23, 2024A group of South Sudanese lawyers filed a case to the country's top court on Monday challenging the president's postponement of elections and extension of the transitional
September 23, 2024
Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons
September 23, 2024Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers.
September 24, 2024
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature Wole Soyinka reflects on his novels, poetry, and plays. The laureate also eloquently recounts the extraordinary activism that influenced his work and inspired a movie out this year about his time under political incarceration in Nigeria.
September 24, 2024
Somalia accused Ethiopia of smuggling weapons on Tuesday amid fears that arms going into the conflict-riven Horn of Africa nation could end up in the hands of Islamist militants.
September 24, 2024
Lawyers and families of jailed Tunisian opposition leaders are calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate a crackdown on political opposition and the abuse of Black African migrants in the North African country, which has been offered European Union financial support to help rein in migration
September 24, 2024Top Zimbabwean retailers have warned of potential store closures if the government insists on the use of an official exchange rate they deem overvalued and damaging their
September 24, 2024
Nigerian officials seized 19.4 kg (42.77 pounds) of cocaine worth 4.66 billion naira ($2.93 million) from a passenger who arrived at Lagos airport on a flight from
September 24, 2024Burkina Faso's junta said it had uncovered an international plot to overthrow it and which included the massacre in August of hundreds of civilians by Islamist
September 24, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Germany and Angola Oct. 10-15, the White House said on Tuesday, in what will be his first visit to Africa as president.
September 24, 2024
The White House says President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa next month
September 24, 2024
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023
September 24, 2024
Plans by African governments to raise money on China's domestic debt markets via so-called panda bonds could be undone by their heavy debt
September 25, 2024
Kenyan police out of uniform and with no official identification fired live rounds at demonstrators at the country's parliament complex in Nairobi on June 25, Amnesty International
September 25, 2024
Norwegian police say they have detained a German national of Cameroonian heritage for allegedly inciting crimes against humanity in Cameroon, the first time Norway is embarking on legal proceedings for such crimes
September 25, 2024Pregnant women, mothers and newborn babies are dying at a shocking rate in Sudan's South Darfur region and thousands of malnourished children are on the brink of starvation, medical
September 25, 2024Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man on suspicion of incitement to crimes against humanity in Cameroon, and they sought an Oslo court's permission to keep him in
September 25, 2024Eswatini’s main opposition party claims its leader was poisoned in an assassination attempt
September 25, 2024
The remains of 49 freedom fighters who died while exiled in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa have been returned to the country
September 25, 2024
A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to six months in prison on Wednesday on charges of falsifying documents, his lawyer told Reuters, the second prison
September 25, 2024Benin's state prosecutor said on Wednesday a former sports minister and a prominent businessman have been detained on suspicion of plotting a coup.
September 25, 2024The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday its executive board approved an arrangement of about $210 million for Liberia, with an immediate disbursement of about $8
September 25, 2024
Prosecutors in junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched investigations against French journalist and researcher Wassim Nasr, accusing him of being an "apologist
September 26, 2024Sudan's army launched artillery and airstrikes in Sudan's capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with
September 26, 2024
Grieving relatives and former classmates bid a solemn farewell on Thursday to 21 children who died in a boarding school fire in central
September 26, 2024
Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak
September 26, 2024
Prosecutors in military junta-ruled Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso launched investigations on Wednesday against the French journalist and researcher Wassim Nasr into what they called his “apology of terrorism” and “complicity” in alleged terrorist acts, in the latest action against the Western media
September 26, 2024Kenya will deploy additional police officers to Haiti to help the government there fight armed gangs as part of a 2,500-strong multinational force, President William Ruto said on
September 26, 2024
Bavarian Nordic said on Thursday it has signed an agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for one million doses of its mpox vaccine, Jynneos, for countries in Africa
September 26, 2024
At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least $2
September 26, 2024
The head of Sudan's army said on Thursday that he supported efforts to bring an end to a devastating war in his country as long as they brought an end to the "occupation" of territory by
September 26, 2024
Nigeria's military has killed dozens of leaders of armed militia groups and hundreds of fighters across the country following a renewed offensive in the third quarter
September 26, 2024Benghazi ‘mastermind’ Ahmed Abu Khatallah resentenced to 28 years in prison
September 26, 2024
Algerian authorities resumed visa requirements for Moroccan nationals entering the country on Thursday, state news agency APS reported, accusing its neighbour of abusing visa-free
September 26, 2024
Over $800 million has been pledged to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for its fight against a surging mpox outbreak on the continent, the agency's head said on
September 26, 2024
Shots have been fired near the presidential palace in Guinea’s capital Conakry, and the army briefly locked down the city center and evacuated it
September 26, 2024Senegal is in discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to take corrective measures after an audit revealed that its debt and budget deficit were much wider than the
September 26, 2024The head of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said on Thursday that the faction remained ready to implement a nationwide ceasefire in its war with the army and allow for the
September 26, 2024
Tunisia's parliament approved a law stripping the Administrative Court of its authority to adjudicate electoral disputes on Friday, nine days before the presidential
September 27, 2024
Uganda's government plans to cut spending by just over a fifth and domestic borrowing by just over a half in the 2025/26 (July-June) fiscal year, the finance ministry said on
September 27, 2024Prince Harry’s latest philanthropic move will gather world business leaders and philanthropists to work towards fostering prosperity in Southern African communities
September 27, 2024
Zambia is aiming for a sharp rebound in economic growth and a halving of its budget deficit next year as it recovers from the worst drought in living memory, its
September 27, 2024Senegal's sovereign dollar bonds fell on Friday after a government audit revealed larger debt and deficit figures than the previous administration had reported,
September 27, 2024
A leading rights group says Rwanda’s army and a militia it backs shelled camps for displaced people in eastern Congo
September 27, 2024Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied
September 27, 2024
The World Bank said it is rolling out measures to ensure the recipients of lending to Uganda are not discriminated against by a tough anti-gay law.
September 27, 2024
International Monetary Fund staff and Ethiopia have reached an agreement on economic policies to conclude the first review of a four-year $3.4 billion loan arrangement, the IMF
September 27, 2024
South African police said on Saturday that they had launched an investigation into the mass shooting of 17 people in a rural village in Eastern Cape province.
September 28, 2024Police in South Africa say 17 people have been killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town
September 28, 2024
Manhunt underway after 17 people killed in South Africa mass shooting
September 28, 2024At six people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and a town in the country's Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses
September 28, 2024
Hopes of finding any of the 48 migrants missing since their boat sank near the Spanish island of El Hierro are diminishing, authorities
September 29, 2024
Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing from an earlier sea wreck that may be the deadliest such
September 30, 2024
Kenyan lawmakers plan to launch impeachment proceedings against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of undermining the government, parliament's majority leader said,
September 30, 2024
At least 12 people died, including three infants, and 10 others were missing after their boat sank on Monday off the Tunisian coast at Djerba as they sought to cross the Mediterranean
September 30, 2024Equatorial Guinea asked judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to reject Gabon's claim to several islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of
September 30, 2024
Rwanda says that eight people have died so far from the highly contagious Marburg virus
September 30, 2024
A forum set up by Egypt's president began discussing on Monday a possible shift in the country's subsidy programme towards paying cash directly instead of offering food products at
September 30, 2024
Mozambique will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct. 9, marking the end of President Filipe Nyusi's two-term tenure.
September 30, 2024Rwanda is dealing with its first outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease
September 30, 2024
At least 24 people were killed by an airstrike on a village in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state, residents and a local councillor said on
September 30, 2024Doctors Without Borders says that it treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed groups vie for power
September 30, 2024
Reactions to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo
September 30, 2024
South African manufacturing activity increased in September, recovering from the previous month's slump as demand rose and an interest rate cut boosted sentiment, the Absa-
October 01, 2024
Major shareholders at the International Monetary Fund are urging Kenya to request an IMF assessment of corruption and governance issues as part of a push to unlock
October 01, 2024
Forty-five migrants have died after two ships wrecked sank off the coast of the East African nation of Djibouti with many still missing, a spokesperson for the United Nations migration
October 01, 2024
While a vast majority of the 1,312 NHL games through June will take place in North America, the spotlight this season is on international play
October 01, 2024
Kenya's inflation fell to 3.6% year-on-year in September from 4.4% a month earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Mozambicans will vote in presidential and legislative elections on Oct. 9 that are almost certain to extend the ruling Frelimo party's half century in power,
October 02, 2024
Chowdeck is hungry for Nigeria’s food delivery market. One day, it wants to be a ‘super-app for Africa’
October 02, 2024
Kenya's central bank rate should start lowering its lending rate due to falling inflation in recent months, Finance Minister John Mbadi said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Two men close to Benin’s president who were arrested last week on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country have been remanded in custody ahead of their trial
October 02, 2024
Ghana's consumer inflation rose in September after slowing for five consecutive months, driven by an increase in food prices, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Rescuers are searching for more than 100 migrants off the coast of Djibouti after smugglers forced them to jump into the sea, the U.N. migration agency said on Wednesday.
October 02, 2024
Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country
October 02, 2024
Authorities in Nigeria say that more than 100 people are missing after a boat carrying them at night capsized in the northwestern part of the country
October 02, 2024Prince Harry is visiting the mountain kingdom of Lesotho where he co-founded a youth charity in 2006 in honor of his late mother Princess Diana
October 02, 2024
The U.N. migration agency says two vessels carrying migrants from Africa sank in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, killing 45 people
October 01, 2024
Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday filed a petition to the high court in Nairobi seeking to halt an impeachment process
October 03, 2024
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country's long-serving intelligence chief, replacing him with a close ally, state broadcaster SSBC reported, citing a
October 03, 2024
Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to
October 03, 2024At least 60 people were killed after a boat carrying mostly women and children returning from a religious festival in Nigeria's northern Niger state
October 03, 2024Mozambique's ruling party candidate in this month's elections, who is almost certain to win, is likely to continue relying on Rwanda's military and European
October 03, 2024
Kenya's private sector saw a slight deterioration in business conditions in September as output and new orders contracted again, reversing the brief recovery seen in August,
October 03, 2024
Tanzania's central bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 6%, it said on Thursday.
October 03, 2024A Congolese governor says at least 78 people have died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo
October 03, 2024
At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a
October 03, 2024
Ghana received the approval for more than 90% of bondholders to restructure and exchange $13 billion of international debt, it said on Thursday, clearing the last hurdle in its protracted
October 03, 2024
Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths.
October 03, 2024
Libya's eastern-based government and Tripoli-based National Oil Corp (NOC) announced on Thursday the reopening of all oilfields and export terminals after a dispute over leadership
October 03, 2024Rescuers are searching for dozens of migrants from Africa still missing after smugglers apparently forced them out of two boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti earlier this week
October 03, 2024
Gilead Sciences said on Thursday it would donate about 5,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir to the Rwanda Medical Supply for emergency use in response to the Marburg virus outbreak.
October 03, 2024
A Tunisian appeal court on Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence handed down to presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel, his lawyer said, two days before the vote is held.
October 03, 2024Ghana's health service has reported the country's first case of mpox this year, without disclosing which variant had been recorded, according to a statement.
October 03, 2024
South Africa’s Constitutional Court says it will hear a case next month brought by two opposition parties to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa
October 03, 2024
The United States and four other countries discussed the need to finalize plans for the new African Union stabilization and support mission in Somalia, the U.S.
October 03, 2024Tunisia's President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning another term in the country's presidential election Sunday
October 04, 2024
Nigerian private sector activity expanded for the second straight month in September as new orders rose, especially for chemical and pharmaceutical products, results of a central
October 04, 2024
The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost land in farm invasions under former leader
October 04, 2024
After almost 18 months of war, fighting in Sudan is escalating as seasonal rains end with the army using intensified airstrikes and allied
October 04, 2024
A cholera outbreak has hit Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, already reeling from floods that displaced nearly 2 million people, an official said on Friday.
October 04, 2024
Supporters and opponents of Kenya’s deputy president have clashed at public forums over an impeachment motion against him, which was introduced in parliament by the ruling alliance this week
October 04, 2024
International Monetary Fund staff and officials in Ghana have reached an agreement on their third review of the West African country's $
October 04, 2024
Russia's mercenary Wagner group has told the family of a Russian fighter captured alive in Mali that he has now died, according to text messages seen
October 04, 2024
Tunisia's election on Sunday pits President Kais Saied, who rights groups say has removed most democratic checks on his power, against a candidate who was suddenly
October 04, 2024
For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region
October 04, 2024
The International Criminal Court on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes.
October 04, 2024Hundreds of Tunisians marched in the capital on Friday, escalating protests against President Kais Saied, two days before what they say is an unfair presidential vote in which Saied
October 04, 2024
Congolese authorities have started vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several other African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency
October 05, 2024
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Saturday his Congolese counterpart had refused to sign an agreed deal to help resolve the M23 rebel conflict in
October 05, 2024
Congolese health officials launched their first mpox vaccination campaign on Saturday, a key step in efforts to contain an outbreak
October 05, 2024
Migrant worker Fajima Kamara came to Lebanon three years ago from Sierra Leone, but when Israeli jets started pounding her neighbourhood
October 05, 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath
October 05, 2024
Supporters of current Tunisian President Kais Saied began celebrations in the capital on Sunday night after an exit poll broadcast on state television showed him
October 06, 2024
Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people
October 06, 2024
Rwanda said on Sunday it had begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to try to combat an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease in the east African country, where it
October 06, 2024Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won re-election in landslide victory after a campaign season saw his opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys
October 06, 2024
Mozambicans will vote this week for a new president who many hope will bring peace to an oil- and gas-rich northern province that has been ravaged by a jihadist insurgency for nearly seven years
October 07, 2024
Intra-Africa trade could double in next five years, says Secretary General of African Continental Free Trade Area
October 07, 2024
At an unlicensed gold mine in Ghana, men in t-shirts, shorts and rubber boots wade through pools of muddy water laced with mercury,
October 07, 2024
Three suspects accused of breaking into South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm in 2020 and stealing millions of foreign currency in cash will
October 07, 2024
More than 350 people have died from cholera in Nigeria in the first nine months of this year, a 239% jump from the same period last year, data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease
October 07, 2024
UNICEF says that recent fighting between the Sudanese military and its rival paramilitary in Sudan’s North Darfur killed at least 13 children and injured four others
October 07, 2024
Three suspects appeared in a South African court on Monday accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of cash from President Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm in 2020,
October 07, 2024
One of five inmates who staged a spectacular escape from a high-security prison near Lisbon a month ago has been recaptured in Morocco, Portuguese police said on Monday, while the
October 07, 2024Six Moroccan migrants escaped through a hole in the ceiling of a holding room in Madrid's international airport, police union Jupol said on Monday, in a new embarrassment for
October 07, 2024
Rescue efforts were underway after a mine pit collapsed in Zambia's Mumbwa District, killing 10 people and injuring five, police said on Monday.
October 07, 2024Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won reelection in a landslide victory after a campaign that saw opponents jailed alongside journalists, activists and attorneys
October 07, 2024
Kenya’s deputy president has defended himself while facing an impeachment motion in which he's accused of supporting anti-government protests in June and of being involved in corruption and other irregularities
October 07, 2024
Preliminary results showed President Kais Saied won a second term in the Tunisian election with 90.69% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday.
October 07, 2024
A U.S. congressional watchdog has found no evidence that a 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conflict minerals disclosure rule has
October 07, 2024
Mozambicans are expected to turn out in large numbers on Wednesday for an election that will choose a successor to President Filipe Nyusi after his two terms
October 08, 2024
Whoever wins Mozambique's presidential election on Wednesday will face an economy battered by worsening cyclones, insecurity, delays to
October 08, 2024
Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan's most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides
October 08, 2024
A case of mpox has been found in Nakasongola jail in central Uganda, a prison spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the patient had been isolated and was
October 08, 2024
Mozambicans will vote on Wednesday in an election that is almost certain to see the ruling party Frelimo maintain its half-century grip on power, despite a
October 08, 2024
Kenya's parliament voted on Tuesday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on charges including enriching himself and stirring ethnic
October 08, 2024
Before his highly anticipated Benin City homecoming concert, Nigerian singer Rema tells CNN's Larry Madowo why his hometown will always have his heart.
October 08, 2024
Burkina Faso's junta has suspended U.S.-funded broadcaster Voice of America for three months over comments about a jihadist insurgency in West Africa's Sahel region, and temporarily
October 08, 2024The United Nations is considering suspending relief operations, including food aid deliveries, in Ethiopia's Amhara region, following
October 08, 2024
Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the
October 08, 2024The war in Sudan could cost countless more lives if immediate action is not taken, as famine and disease spread while fighting intensifies and aid workers struggle to gain access, a senior
October 08, 2024Sudan's health ministry says cholera cases in the country have increased by almost 40% across 11 of the total 18 states in less than two weeks, alarming the U.N. health officials
October 08, 2024
Kenya's central bank slashed its benchmark lending rate to 12.00% from 12.75% on Tuesday, in a move aimed at stimulating credit to the private sector, the bank's
October 08, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the younger brother of the head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, accusing him of leading the paramilitary
October 08, 2024Cameroon's 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, is in good health, the government said on Tuesday in a statement, calling widespread reports saying
October 08, 2024
Kenya’s lawmakers have approved a motion to impeach the country’s deputy president, following daylong discussions and after Rigathi Gachagua appeared in parliament to defend himself against several charges, including allegations that he supported anti-government protests in June
October 08, 2024Vote counting started in Mozambique on Wednesday evening for an election that is widely expected to deliver another victory for the
October 09, 2024
Russia's Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and prime minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire J.
October 09, 2024
Mozambique began counting votes in a presidential election that could extend the ruling party’s 49 years in power, though the opposition already was alleging fraud and manipulation
October 08, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of creating obstacles in ongoing negotiations to resolve the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Congo that has displaced more
October 09, 2024
Eric Mbonigaba recovered from mpox after four weeks in hospital but the Burundian motorcycle taxi driver says he has since fallen victim to stigma
October 09, 2024
Ethiopia's bondholders will have to take a writedown as part of the country's debt restructuring, State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign told Reuters, adding he
October 09, 2024
Kenya's senate will next week debate whether to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, the senate speaker said on Wednesday, after the national
October 09, 2024
Algeria excluded French companies from a wheat import tender this week and required that participating firms did not offer French-origin wheat, in
October 09, 2024
The leader of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, accused Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops in a
October 09, 2024
The Logone river in Chad's capital has risen to its highest level in 30-40 years, the authorities said on Wednesday, threatening further turmoil to a country that has been
October 09, 2024Russia has recruited about 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students, including teenagers, assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine
October 10, 2024
The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others
October 10, 2024
Votes were being counted by Mozambique's national election authorities on Thursday as civil society monitors were compiling a parallel tally to try to detect
October 10, 2024
The head of Africa’s top public health agency says that an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg fever in Rwanda is under control and that travel bans to the East African country are unnecessary
October 10, 2024
An overhaul of Egypt's high school curriculum has left teachers and pupils scrambling to adjust, laying bare strains on state education
October 10, 2024
Prosecutors say South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t face criminal charges over a hidden cash scandal that was revealed more than two years ago and triggered an investigation by a special police unit
October 10, 2024
Maryland Zoo honors zoologist for her work to preserve, research elephants in Africa
October 10, 2024Spain's Interior Minister on Thursday asked the European border agency Frontex to seek permission from African nations to patrol their waters in a bid to "save lives" on the
October 10, 2024
Rights activists and local responders said scores of civilians had been killed at sites across Sudan in the past week as the army escalates air strikes nearly 18
October 10, 2024Independent presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane on Friday threatened to call a nationwide strike and bring Mozambique to a standstill if
October 11, 2024
Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said on Friday during a visit by the Haitian
October 11, 2024
Kenya's high court ruled on Friday that a case challenging Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment should be referred to the Chief Justice.
October 11, 2024
Cameroon has outlawed any discussion about the health of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, a letter shared by the interior ministry said, after Biya's
October 11, 2024
Medical charity MSF says it has been forced to suspend work in the vast camp for displaced people where famine has been confirmed in Sudan's North Darfur region, putting
October 11, 2024
Zambia’s worst electricity blackouts in memory have been caused by a severe drought in the region that has left the critical Kariba dam with insufficient water to run its hydroelectric turbines
October 12, 2024
Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work
October 12, 2024
South Africa's former finance and labour minister and first Black central bank governor Tito Mboweni has died aged 65 following a brief illness, the presidency said late on
October 13, 2024
Comoros will hold elections to its 33-seat parliament on Jan. 12, according to a decree published on Saturday, although opposition parties have said they will boycott the poll.
October 13, 2024
Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said on Sunday, without specifying which variant had been recorded.
October 13, 2024
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October 14, 2024Nigeria's air force is acquiring 24 Italian-made M-346 attack jets and ten AW-109 Trekker helicopters as part of a fleet renewal strategy, a spokesperson said on
October 14, 2024The World Bank said on Monday it had lowered its economic growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa this year to 3% from 3.4%, mainly due to the destruction of Sudan's
October 14, 2024
Uganda's government and Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi signed a contract to build a 272 kilometre (169 miles) section of railway, in a bid to boost
October 14, 2024A regional partnership for Nile River basin countries says an agreement on the equitable use of water resources has come into force despite the notable opposition of Egypt
October 14, 2024
The government of Congo has canceled an auction for 27 sites earmarked for oil exploration, citing late submissions and a lack of competition
October 14, 2024
The International Criminal Court prosecutor is renewing an investigation in Congo and focusing on allegations of crimes committed in the conflict-torn North Kivu province in the central African nation’s east since early 2022
October 14, 2024Nigeria to boycott AFCON qualifier against Libya after players claim they were left stranded at airport overnight
October 14, 2024
The Egyptian health ministry says a bus crashed and overturned on a highway in northeastern Egypt, killing 12 people and injuring 33 others
October 14, 2024
Kenya is moving 50 elephants from a national reserve to a larger park after overpopulation overwhelmed the ecosystem, in what has been hailed as a conservation success
October 14, 2024
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday his office will renew an investigation into Democratic Republic of Congo,
October 14, 2024Ukraine denied late on Monday media reports that it has been involved in supplying drones to rebels fighting in the north of Mali.
October 14, 2024Father-of-seven Dah Toubada Kadapia stood on a stack of homemade sandbags in his backyard in Chad's capital N'Djamena, surrounded by
October 15, 2024
Nigeria's inflation rate rose in September for the first time in three months, advancing to 32.70% in annual terms from 32.15% in August, the statistics agency
October 15, 2024
The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades
October 15, 2024
Kenya's courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week's Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment from going ahead.
October 15, 2024
Police in Haiti said that a leader of one of that country's powerful gangs has been injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year
October 15, 2024Kenya’s High Court has rejected an application by the deputy president’s lawyers to stop the senate from debating an impeachment motion against him after parliament voted to remove him from office last week
October 15, 2024
A man charged with killing 18 people in mass shootings in two separate homes on the same night in South Africa has abandoned his bail application and remains in custody
October 15, 2024Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief
October 15, 2024The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
October 15, 2024
"The main difference is the culture."JD Sports CEO Régis Schultz discusses how his company adjusts its strategy to appeal to various global markets, as the retailer expands to 4,500 total stores.
October 15, 2024
Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis
October 16, 2024JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. lender, plans to enter Kenya and Ivory Coast this year and grow its footprint in Africa, CEO Jamie Dimon told
October 16, 2024
Kenya's senate began impeachment hearings against Kenya's deputy president on Wednesday, hours after a court said the proceedings were constitutional,
October 16, 2024
Toll rises to 153 from Nigeria fuel tanker explosion
October 16, 2024
More than 140 people, including children, are dead in Nigeria after an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel
October 16, 2024
A fuel tanker overturned late on Tuesday in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa after the driver lost control of the vehicle, spilling petrol which
October 16, 2024
Mozambique's ruling party Frelimo was leading provisional election results in all 11 provinces on Wednesday, while opposition parties cried fraud and one called for
October 16, 2024
President Joe Biden is heading to Germany this week and will go to Angola in December
October 16, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Saturday he and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni would help mediate between Ethiopia and Somalia in a dispute that threatens to destabilise
November 30, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday said a staff team had visited Senegal to start assessing the implications of data revisions resulting from a government audit of past and
October 16, 2024
Zimbabwe says it will compensate local and foreign white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in farm seizures meant to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism
October 16, 2024The conservative Dutch government is looking into sending rejected African asylum seekers to Uganda, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Thursday, while acknowledging it might not
October 17, 2024
Kenya's senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on five out of 11 charges levelled against him
October 17, 2024
Nigerian authorities have announced measures to correct lapses that resulted in the death of more than 140 people in an explosion as they were trying to scoop up fuel from an overturned fuel tanker on Wednesday
October 17, 2024
South Africa's central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, said on Thursday that the country could move to a lower inflation target at little cost.
October 17, 2024
The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-
October 17, 2024
Africa's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits
October 17, 2024
The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara is suggesting that dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front could be one way to settle the decades-long conflict
October 17, 2024
Kenya’s Senate has voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office in an impeachment trial on corruption and other allegations, hours after the deputy president was taken to the hospital with chest pains
October 17, 2024
Nearly 1,000 endangered animals repatriated to Madagascar in anti-trafficking landmark
November 30, 2024
Congo needs to do more to raise awareness about mpox and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said on
October 18, 2024
The government of Ivory Coast has announced a ban on all student union associations following the death of two students and the arrest of 17 suspects
October 18, 2024Tunisian court sentenced on Friday the prominent official in Ennahda opposition party Noureddine Bhiri to 10 years in prison, on charges of attacking state security and inciting
October 18, 2024
Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party said Saturday
October 19, 2024Gunmen killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing multiple rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, rights groups
October 19, 2024
A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 aircraft bound for New York made an emergency stop due to a technical incident at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal on Saturday, the West
October 19, 2024
Hussein Hachem hugged his injured daughter as she arrived in Senegal on a flight repatriating citizens escaping the escalating conflict in Lebanon.
October 20, 2024
Sudan's army said on Sunday a commander from its foe the Rapid Support Forces had defected with some of his troops, the first such move by a senior figure since the two
October 20, 2024Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the absence of new infections or deaths in the past six days
October 20, 2024Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after
October 20, 2024
Kenya's impeached deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, said on Sunday his security protection team had been withdrawn and that President William Ruto would be responsible if
October 20, 2024
Idris Elba is building an entertainment industry in Africa
October 20, 2024
Nigeria has blocked Shell's sale of its entire onshore and shallow-water oil operations, but approved a similar deal by Exxon Mobil, the country's upstream oil regulator said on
October 21, 2024
Mozambique police on Monday fired teargas and bullets at protesters in the capital Maputo who had gathered at the scene where two opposition party figures were shot dead on Saturday
October 21, 2024
The M23 rebel group has seized the town of Kalembe in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding its reach in the region, an official and a former lawmaker said on Monday.
October 21, 2024Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas at the country's leading opposition politician and supporters as he spoke with reporters
October 21, 2024
South Africa's mid-term budget review later this month is expected to show healthier public finances, but economists say it might be too early to loosen the
October 21, 2024
Kenya said on Monday said it had handed over four Turkish refugees after accepting an extradition request by Ankara despite Amnesty International raising concerns they could face
October 21, 2024Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur
October 21, 2024
Cameroon's 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, returned to the country on Monday after a 42-day absence that had sparked questions about his health and
October 21, 2024
The U.S. government on Monday condemned the weekend killings by gunmen of two Mozambique opposition figures ahead of protests against a disputed election
October 21, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo's army on Tuesday said it had taken back the eastern town of Kalembe, a day after it was seized by M23 rebels, but rebels said they still controlled
October 22, 2024Tunisian President Kais Saied has been inaugurated for a second term, following a monthslong crackdown and string of arrests against his political opponents
October 22, 2024The mystery surrounding a crashed cargo plane in Sudan purportedly downed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has deepened as authorities insist the aircraft had been de-registered in Kyrgyzstan
October 22, 2024
South Africa sees Russia as a valued ally, President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a bilateral meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, on the eve of the BRICS summit of
October 22, 2024
European Union election observers have flagged irregularities in Mozambique’s election as the country awaits the announcement of official results this week
October 22, 2024
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked villages in the east of Sudan's El Gezira state, killing at least 25 people, following the defection of high-ranking RSF officer
October 22, 2024
Police in Uganda say least 11 people including children were killed when a fuel truck exploded next to a highway on Tuesday
October 22, 2024
Ten bodies were recovered from the scene of a fuel tanker explosion in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
October 22, 2024Rwandan genocide survivors have told their testimonies at a Paris court where a former doctor is on trial for his alleged role in the 1994 mass killings of more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them
October 22, 2024At least eight people including children were killed and 20 injured in a drone strike at a fair in Mali's northern Timbuktu region, Tuareg rebels said on Tuesday.
October 22, 2024A Swiss woman was killed earlier this month in Algeria, which has in recent years aimed to attract tourists and put a history of instability and terrorism in the Sahara in the past
October 22, 2024Nearly half of Africa's citizens live in a country where governance has worsened over the past decade, as deteriorating security erodes progress, according to a new
October 22, 2024
Devastating rains that triggered deadly floods in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan in recent months were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists
October 23, 2024
South Africa's inflation dropped sharply in September, hitting its lowest level in more than three years and bolstering expectations for another interest rate cut by the
October 23, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has reshuffled his 45-member cabinet, naming seven new ministers, sacking five and reassigning 10 others to new portfolios, a
October 23, 2024
A plane downed in Sudan's North Darfur state had Russian crew members and was being used by the army to resupply the
October 23, 2024
Nigeria's decision this week to block Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore assets has sent a negative signal to investors the country urgently needs to
October 23, 2024
Botswana holds a national election on Oct. 30, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi favourite to win a second term against three challengers in a nation his
October 24, 2024
Egypt's economic growth will increase to 4.0% in the year to the end of June 2025 as austerity measures imposed under an International Monetary Fund programme run
October 24, 2024
(This Oct. 24 story has been corrected to clarify that Atimpe is a researcher on preventing violent extremism, not an expert on extremist groups, in paragraph 25) By David Lewis and Maxwell Akalaare
October 24, 2024
African playwright and actor Oliva Ouedraogo's “Queen” depicts the fictional journey of a girl who is raped by her stepfather on the night of his marriage to her mother, and decides to speak out against her family’s wishes
October 24, 2024Mozambique's ruling party Frelimo has retained power in this month's national election, extending its five-decade rule in the Southern African
October 24, 2024
The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday against Mirghani Idris Suleiman, a leading figure in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) efforts to get weapons for the war against
October 24, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has announced plans to establish a commission to explore revisions to the country's constitution, potentially removing term
October 24, 2024
Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer and critic of President Kais Saied, was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday on charges of insulting her country, her lawyer said.
October 24, 2024An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds
October 24, 2024
At least three people died when a helicopter crashed in Nigeria on its way to an offshore oil production facility on Thursday, the state-owned oil firm NNPC said.
October 24, 2024The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the size of Egypt's $8 billion loan programme is "still appropriate", and that it will assess as a priority how effective
October 24, 2024
Moazmbique’s ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election amid claims of rigging by the opposition
October 24, 2024
King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean nations push
October 25, 2024
King Charles III has told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
October 25, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Djibouti next week to attend a Turkey-Africa ministerial meeting and discuss improving cooperation between Ankara and the
October 25, 2024
Thomas Kwoyelo, a mid-level commander in the notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Uganda on Friday for war crimes including murder,
October 25, 2024
Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African nations calling on former colonial powers to
October 25, 2024
Zimbabwe's consumer inflation surged to 37.2% month on month in October in local currency terms, data showed on Friday, after a sharp devaluation in the southern African
October 25, 2024
A court in Uganda has sentenced a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s
October 25, 2024
The grandson of South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela, says the U.K. government denied him an entry visa because of his support for Hamas
October 25, 2024
A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies
October 25, 2024
A well-known Tunisian attorney and commentator is facing two years in prison for remarks she made about Tunisia and its treatment of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa
October 25, 2024Ivory Coast's former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said on Friday he would seek the nomination of the opposition PDCI party for the country's 2025 presidential election,
October 25, 2024
A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine
October 25, 2024
Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war
October 25, 2024
Ghana's government on Saturday rejected Reuters reporting on Islamist militants in Burkina Faso that found they are discreetly using neighbouring Ghana's north as a logistical and
October 26, 2024Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 124 people in a village in El Gezira State on Friday, activists said, in
October 26, 2024124 killed as Sudanese paramilitary group attacks village, doctors and activists say
October 26, 2024Ethiopian runner Yomif Kejelcha made every second count as he broke the men’s half-marathon record by just one second
October 27, 2024A doctors group and the United Nations say fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town
October 27, 2024
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco, kicking off a state visit with a series of bilateral agreements, including major investments in renewable energy and transportation
October 28, 2024
Botswana will hold a general election on Wednesday with President Mokgweetsi Masisi competing against three challengers for a second term in the diamond-rich
October 28, 2024
Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of 16 migrants off the coast of the towns of Maloulech, Salakta and Chebba, the national guard said on Monday, the latest migrant boat
October 28, 2024Six children who died in a South African township earlier this month had ingested a chemical compound used in pesticides, the country's health minister said on Monday, in a
October 28, 2024Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad's Lake region over the weekend, the central African country's presidency said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west
October 28, 2024
The United States on Monday announced a visa restriction policy for individuals Washington deems responsible for undermining democracy in Ghana, ahead of the December
October 28, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday for its support to help protect civilians in war-torn Sudan,
October 28, 2024
The U.N. chief says Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying hunger and disease for millions
October 28, 2024
South Africa has delivered a nearly 5,000-page document to the United Nations’ top court
October 28, 2024Morocco agreed to buy high-speed trains from French company Alstom on Monday, one of a series of business deals signed during President Emmanuel
October 28, 2024
Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Burkina Faso’s government unnecessarily exposed civilians to danger during a militant attack earlier this year
October 29, 2024
Authorities say a boat carrying 13 Egyptian migrants to Europe has capsized off Libya’s coast, killing all on board except for one person
October 29, 2024
Nigeria based fintech Moniepoint has raised $110 million in new funding from investors including Google to scale up digital payments and banking solutions across Africa, the company
October 29, 2024
The head of the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday that over 14 million people had fled their homes in Sudan, either inside the country or over its borders,
October 29, 2024
The International Organization for Migration says the war in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people, or about 30% of the population, since it broke out over a year ago
October 29, 2024Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allies have committed "staggering" levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex
October 29, 2024
‘A disability is not inability’: How this blind soccer league is changing lives in the world’s newest country
October 29, 2024
Fifty years after Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire, the fight still has lasting legacy in the country now known as Congo
October 29, 2024
A dozen Egyptian migrants are feared dead after their boat capsized off the coast of the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk on Monday, two Egyptian security sources said, while one man
October 29, 2024Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a decision by an appeals court nullifying the 2023 finance law, a victory for the government after protests forced President William Ruto
October 29, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron told Morocco's parliament on Tuesday the disputed territory of Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, reiterating in person a statement
October 29, 2024
The United States condemns attacks on civilians by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and called on them to halt violence against civilians, the State Department said on Tuesday.
October 29, 2024
Minnesota missionary killed in "act of violence" in Africa, church says
October 29, 2024Botswana started voting on Wednesday in an election that will determine whether President Mokgweetsi Masisi secures a second term, with slowing economic growth
October 30, 2024
Botswana is holding a national election and voters are deciding if one of Africa’s longest-ruling parties stays on for another five-year term
October 30, 2024
A Paris court on Wednesday sentenced a Rwandan former doctor to 27 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country
October 30, 2024For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides
October 30, 2024
With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that
October 30, 2024
Suspected cult members attacked a village in Uganda, killing at least eight people, including a child as young as three and members of the assailants' families, authorities said on
October 30, 2024Somalia has announced the expulsion of an Ethiopian diplomat, marking a further souring of relations between the neighbouring countries related to a port deal Addis
October 30, 2024
At least 10 people were shot dead and another 63 injured by gunfire during post-election protests in Mozambique last week, medical associations said on Wednesday, as the country
October 30, 2024
South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana told Reuters on Wednesday that he was not yet convinced about lowering the country's inflation target, a move
October 30, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the seventh and eighth reviews of Kenya's program, the IMF said on Wednesday, paving the way for the cash-
October 30, 2024
Two medical groups in Mozambique say at least 10 people were fatally shot by police and 63 others sustained gunshot wounds when authorities cracked down on unrest following the presidential election
October 31, 2024
Moroccan police have arrested a high-profile human rights activist Fouad Abdelmoumni on suspicion of reporting a false crime and spreading fake news on social media.
October 31, 2024Kenya's high court on Thursday lifted orders barring the swearing-in of newly appointed deputy president Kithure Kindiki, whose predecessor has launched legal challenges over his
October 31, 2024
A Moroccan economist known for his work defending human rights has been detained after criticizing the government in remarks posted on social media during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the North African kingdom
October 31, 2024LONDON - Private equity giant Carlyle Group has sold its majority holdings in Tunisia-focused oil and gas producer Mazarine Energy to the company's CEO Edward van Kersbergen, Mazarine said on Thursday
October 31, 2024
Botswana's voters delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades, registering their anger over economic stagnation linked to a
November 01, 2024
The party of Botswana’s opposition candidate Duma Boko has been declared the election winner over incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi in a seismic change that ended the ruling party’s 58 years in power since independence from Britain
November 01, 2024
Kenya's new Deputy President Kithure Kindiki was sworn in on Friday after a court lifted orders barring his inauguration following weeks of legal challenges by his predecessor, who
November 01, 2024
Kenyan hair braider Jemima Atieno spent decades building her business in Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market, only to lose ground to social media after the pandemic as
November 01, 2024
Algeria has pardoned a journalist who emerged as a key voice during the country’s 2019 pro-democracy protests and was later imprisoned for taking foreign funding for his media outlets and threatening state security
November 01, 2024
Kenya’s new deputy president has been sworn into office, two weeks after his predecessor was overwhelmingly voted out in an impeachment motion in parliament over allegations of corruption and inciting ethnic division
November 01, 2024
Angola's government anticipates a budget deficit of 1.65% of gross domestic product in 2025, slightly higher than this year's projected 1.46% deficit, draft budget documents showed.
November 01, 2024
Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween
November 01, 2024
South African manufacturing activity grew in October for the second month in a row, a local purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed, the first time since early 2023
November 01, 2024
Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one third jump from this year due to
November 01, 2024
A Moroccan human rights activist will go on trial charged with spreading fake news, offending institutions and false reporting after accusing the kingdom of using migration and
November 01, 2024The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan says the team found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls
November 01, 2024
Nigeria charged 76 people, including 30 minors, with treason and inciting a military coup after they took part in deadly August protests against economic hardship,
November 01, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Friday reported attacks on civilians by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces as
November 01, 2024
Twenty-nine minors in Nigeria could be facing the death penalty
November 01, 2024
Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”
November 02, 2024
Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda refugee camp, police say
November 03, 2024Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands won the men’s race at the New York City Marathon and Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya took the women’s event
November 03, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio is planning to launch its first hybrid model in 2026 and will only sell it in overseas markets, including the Middle East, North Africa and
November 04, 2024
Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of
November 04, 2024
Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's
November 04, 2024
Wife of missionary killed in Angola arrested in connection to his death, church says
November 04, 2024Nigerian President Bola Tinubu directed that all minors detained during anti-government protests in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped,
November 04, 2024Nigeria and Britain said on Monday they had established a strategic partnership to boost economic growth, strengthen security cooperation and enhance personal ties.
November 04, 2024At least 25 people died off Comoros islands after traffickers capsized their boat on Friday night, the United Nations' migration agency IOM said on Monday, the third such incident
November 04, 2024Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the release of 29 children facing the death penalty after being arraigned for allegedly participating in protests against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation
November 04, 2024A Kenyan man has been convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on a U.S. building on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab
November 05, 2024South Africa's private sector maintained its growth trajectory in October, bolstered by a decline in business costs and selling prices, a Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)
November 05, 2024
The International Monetary Fund has raised Ethiopia's net international reserves target to facilitate payments of upcoming hard currency bills, the Fund said.
November 05, 2024
Britain's Prince William paid a visit to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday in Cape Town after taking a nature walk with rangers and conservationists at Table
November 05, 2024
A Nigerian court freed 119 people including minors on Tuesday, after the authorities dropped charges against them arising from deadly protests in August against
November 05, 2024Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on sex in government offices after private videos leaked on social media appeared to show a senior finance ministry official having sex
November 05, 2024
South Africa and Britain have agreed to boost trade and defence cooperation, the two countries' foreign ministers said after meeting on Tuesday.
November 05, 2024
Nigerian authorities have released 29 children who have been detained for over two months and potentially faced the death penalty for their alleged participation in protests against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis following growing calls for their release
November 05, 2024Sharks and Springbok hero Lukhanyo Am says that South Africa have a strong chance of making history by becoming the first country to win three World Cups in a row. Speaking in our latest installment of African Voices Playmakers series, the fleet-footed centre opened up about the secrets to South Africa's success, as he highlighted how head coach Rassie Erasums had unified the squad.
November 28, 2024
From South Africa to Morocco, CNN's Marketplace Africa takes a look at the continent's most successful stock exchanges.
November 29, 2024
MTN believes diversifying their portfolio is key to continued growth in their business across the continent. CNN's Rahel Solomon sat down with CEO Ralph Mupita to discuss everything from the digital economy to the company's focus on fintech.
November 29, 2024
Ancient fossil footprints are the first evidence of two different hominin species − Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei − living in the same place at the same time.
November 28, 2024
At least 27 people died when a boat capsized on the Niger River in central Nigeria, the local emergency management agency said on Friday.
November 29, 2024A French plan to significantly reduce its military presence in West and central Africa risks backfiring and further diminishing the former colonial
November 29, 2024
Chad’s government says it is ending a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, to redefine the nation's sovereignty
November 29, 2024
Authorities say 27 people have died and at least 100, mostly women, are missing after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria
November 29, 2024Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said on Friday he has asked for an independent review of a confidential draft agreement with Britain over the future of the Chagos
November 29, 2024
The death toll from a landslide triggered by heavy rain in eastern Uganda has climbed to 17, a government spokesperson said on Friday, with more than 100 others missing.
November 29, 2024
17 luxury hotels that go all-out for Christmas
November 29, 2024
Ghanaians are set to vote on Dec. 7 for a new president to replace Nana Akufo-Addo, who has served the maximum two terms.
November 29, 2024
At least 18 people died when a boat carrying passengers heading to a market in Cameroon's Far North region capsized, a local administrative official said
November 29, 2024Kenya's inflation edged up to 2.8% year-on-year in November, from 2.7% a month earlier, the statistics office said on Friday.
November 29, 2024
Ghanaians go to the polls on Dec. 7 to choose a new president and parliament in an election investors are watching closely to determine how the winner will steer
November 29, 2024
Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths
November 28, 2024
South Africa takes over the G20 presidency on Sunday, the first African country to lead the forum, though its focus on issues such as inclusive growth and
November 29, 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre
November 28, 2024
One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals is openiong in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries
November 29, 2024
It was an alarming, even sickening, suggestion: Farmers in Zimbabwe hit hard by drought should farm maggots to feed their animals and boost their household incomes
November 29, 2024
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago
November 28, 2024
Fifteen people have died and at least 100 more are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried dozens of homes across several villages in eastern Uganda, the prime
November 28, 2024
Chad's government has terminated a revised 2019 defence cooperation agreement with France, a statement by its foreign ministry said Thursday.
November 28, 2024About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind
November 28, 2024
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia said on Thursday it has issued a cease-and-desist order to Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink for operating in
November 28, 2024
Britain is confident its plan to secure the future of a U.S.-British military base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will
November 28, 2024
At least 15 people have died and 113 others are missing after landslides buried homes in six villages in eastern Uganda
November 28, 2024
Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday that Nigerian police used excessive force and shot protesters while cracking down on demonstrations in August over a cost of living
November 28, 2024
The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubbaland state said on Thursday it was suspending relations and cooperation with the federal government in Mogadishu following a
November 28, 2024
Greece's coast guard has recovered the bodies of four migrants - two women and two children - after their boat sank off the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, authorities said on
November 28, 2024Ghana's consumer inflation rose for the second month in a row in October, to 22.1% year on year from 21.5% in September, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
November 06, 2024
Inflation in Egypt is estimated to have climbed to 27.0% in October, pushed up by higher education costs and a fuel price increase in the middle of the month, according to a poll
November 06, 2024
British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa
November 06, 2024
An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on
November 06, 2024
Mozambican police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters in the capital Maputo on Thursday during the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party, which was
November 07, 2024
Prince William rode on a sea rescue boat along part of the South African coast as he wrapped up a four-day visit to Cape Town dedicated to promoting conservation and the battle against climate change
November 07, 2024
The Moroccan population grew to 36.82 million by September 2024, according to the preliminary results of a national census, the spokesman for the government said on Thursday.
November 07, 2024Judges at the International Criminal Court have unsealed an arrest warrant for an alleged rebel from the Central African Republic accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity more than a decade ago
November 07, 2024Nigeria's military has warned of a new insurgent group, Lakurawas, infiltrating the country's northwest region from neighbouring Niger and Mali, its spokesperson
November 07, 2024THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday unveiled an arrest warrant against a suspected leader of a militia that attacked Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR)
November 07, 2024At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late
November 07, 2024France said on Thursday that it was not aware of any official measures imposed by Algeria on its imports and exports, but would keep a close eye on the
November 07, 2024Thousands are protesting in Mozambique’s capital and police are responding by firing tear gas and rubber bullets as weeks of post-election unrest continued in the southern African country
November 07, 2024
Africa's main public health body said it is seeking assurances that U.S.
November 07, 2024
Nigeria's human rights commission will on Friday deliver its findings from an investigation into Reuters reports, which found the military ran a secret, systematic and illegal
November 07, 2024
Doctor Philip Moreira's commute to hospital on an electric bicycle is a dangerous, smog-infused weave through the chaotic traffic of Senegal's capital Dakar.
November 08, 2024
Authorities in Comoros have arrested a suspected people-smuggler in connection with an incident in which traffickers deliberately capsized a boat last week, killing at least 25
November 08, 2024Mozambique's largest hospital said on Friday that at least three people were killed and 66 injured during clashes between police and protesters the previous day over a disputed
November 08, 2024
Nigeria's human rights commission said on Friday an investigation had found "no evidence" that the Nigerian military deliberately attacked women and
November 08, 2024
The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital
November 08, 2024
The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military
November 09, 2024
At least fifteen people were killed and several others wounded when new insurgent group Lakurawas attacked a rural community in Nigeria's northwest
November 09, 2024South Africa's border authority said on Saturday it had partially reopened its main crossing with neighbour Mozambique, where last month's disputed election sparked protests,
November 09, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will call for an immediate ceasefire and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict when he attends the upcoming Arab-
November 09, 2024
Mauritius held a parliamentary election on Sunday in which Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his main rivals all promised to tackle a cost of living
November 09, 2024
At least 15 Chadian soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded in clashes between the army and Boko Haram fighters on Saturday, the army's spokesman said, adding that 96 Boko
November 10, 2024A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S.
November 11, 2024
Ghana's main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December's presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, placing him ahead
November 11, 2024
Chad's army says Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a military post that also left 96 of the assailants dead
November 11, 2024
Mauritius' incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Monday his political alliance was headed for a major defeat to a rival coalition led by a three-
November 11, 2024
Authorities in Ivory Coast say 21 people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a road accident
November 11, 2024Moroccan journalist Hamid Mahdaoui said he was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison on a charge of defamation against justice minister Abdellatif Ouahbi.
November 11, 2024Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and officials and residents said it killed 15 people
November 11, 2024Senegal will have to wait until at least June to get any sort of resolution of its lending programme with the International Monetary Fund
November 11, 2024
A Moroccan journalist who accused a prominent politician of fraud was sentenced prison for defamation on Monday in a case that has sparked international criticism from press freedom advocates
November 11, 2024African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril.
November 11, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan's warring parties cease hostilities and calls on them
November 11, 2024
The International Monetary Fund said on Monday that it reached a staff-level agreement for the fourth review of Zambia's loan program that would release about $185.5 million to
November 12, 2024
The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso
November 12, 2024
Mauritius’ opposition coalition has won the country’s election by a landslide
November 12, 2024
South Africa's unemployment rate fell in the three months after the formation of a coalition government that has boosted business confidence and led to hopes for
November 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024
Chad said on Tuesday it had approved the licensing of Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink to improve access to internet services in the central African country.
November 12, 2024
Mauritius' opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was appointed prime minister on Tuesday, returning to the post a decade on after his coalition won a near clean sweep of seats in
November 12, 2024
Ghana's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the speaker of parliament's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring
November 12, 2024The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a commander of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, accusing him of being involved in human rights abuses in
November 12, 2024
Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told
November 12, 2024
Veteran Mauritian politician Navin Ramgoolam was sworn in as prime minister for his fourth term on Wednesday, a decade after he last left power, following his
November 13, 2024
Voters in Somaliland flocked to the polls on Wednesday to choose a president at a time when the breakaway Somali region sees international recognition within reach
November 13, 2024
Sudan's sovereign council said on Wednesday it would extend the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad, seen as essential by aid agencies for the delivery of food and other
November 13, 2024
Senegal will vote in legislative elections on Sunday that will determine whether the new president and government can gain control over the
November 14, 2024
A committee of Guinean opposition groups, civil society organisations and activists known as the Forces Vives called on Tuesday for the West African country to establish civilian
November 12, 2024
Nigeria plans 47 trillion naira ($28.18 billion) spending for its 2025 budget, using an assumption of an oil price of $75 per barrel and target production of 2 million barrels per day
November 14, 2024
More than 61,000 people are estimated to have died in Khartoum state during the first 14 months of Sudan's war, with evidence
November 14, 2024
Ghana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary speaker's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring the ruling party’s majority in the legislature ahead of the Dec. 7 election
November 12, 2024
Nigeria's inflation rate rose for the second straight month in October, advancing to 33.88% in annual terms from 32.70% in September mainly due to higher food
November 15, 2024
Dozens of escaped residents of the besieged town of al-Hilaliya in Sudan's El Gezira state have tested positive for cholera, a medical
November 15, 2024
Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on
November 15, 2024
South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the
November 14, 2024
Mauritius President Prithvirajsing Roopun appointed Rama Krishna Sithanen as governor of the central bank on Friday, following a general election last weekend
November 15, 2024Ratings agency S&P revised South Africa's outlook to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, citing plans for accelerated economic reforms by the new government of national unity and a pickup
November 15, 2024
Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education - and their
November 16, 2024
Gabon held a referendum on a new constitution on Saturday, a major step towards establishing democratic rule after a coup ousted
November 16, 2024
A group of four Russian and Belarusian nationals, detained in the central African state of Chad for more than a month, flew back to Moscow on Saturday, Russian media reported.
November 16, 2024Nigeria and India on Sunday agreed to deepen collaboration in maritime security, intelligence and counter-terrorism during a state visit to the West African country by
November 17, 2024
Gabonese voters approved a new constitution by a landslide 91.8%, the interior minister said on Sunday, after a referendum that the junta in power promised would be a
November 17, 2024Expectations were growing that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's party would win Senegal's Sunday legislative elections after two opposition leaders
November 17, 2024
Britain will seek backing from other United Nations Security Council members on Monday for its demand that Sudan's warring parties stop hostilities and allow deliveries of aid, the
November 18, 2024
A likely absolute majority for President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Pastef party in Senegal's legislative election would empower him to pursue his ambitious 25-year
November 18, 2024
The new prime minister of Mauritius has announced an audit of the public finances days after his coalition won a resounding election victory, casting a shadow over the accuracy
November 18, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a
November 18, 2024
At least 13 people died when a building collapsed in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam and more than 80 people have been rescued, the country's president said on
November 17, 2024Russia on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that called on Sudan's warring parties to cease hostilities immediately
November 18, 2024
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan travelled to the African country for the first time on Monday to seek an increase in the flow of aid to millions of people in need and an
November 18, 2024
The U.N. political chief has accused allies of Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces of “enabling the slaughter” that has killed more than 24,000 people and created the world’s worst displacement crisis
November 13, 2024
The United Nations' annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small
November 13, 2024
Muhammad Awad and his family are among dozens who escaped Sudan's Tuti island earlier this year amid a siege by the Rapid Support Forces, finding refuge at a shelter after
November 18, 2024
Ghana is clamping down on private pension fund managers who want to invest in offshore assets on concerns it could worsen pressure on its cedi currency,
November 19, 2024African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships
November 13, 2024
More and faster aid deliveries are needed in Sudan, the U.S. special envoy to the war-weary country told Reuters, ideally through the implementation of humanitarian corridors and
November 19, 2024
Congo has opened an investigation into vandalism on Monday evening at the mausoleum housing the tooth - thought to be the only known remains - of independence hero Patrice Lumumba, the
November 19, 2024Unrelenting price rises and a brutal insurgency had already made it hard for Nigerians in northeastern Borno State to feed their families.
November 13, 2024
Namibians are set to vote for a new president and parliament on Nov. 27, after Hage Geingob died and was replaced as president on a interim basis by his
November 20, 2024The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur
November 13, 2024South Africa's inflation rate dropped sharply in October to its lowest level since the peak of the COVID pandemic, data showed on Wednesday,
November 20, 2024
At least 50 Boko Haram fighters were killed on Tuesday and seven members of Nigeria's infrastructure security force were missing following an insurgent ambush on a
November 20, 2024
Kenya has secured a $200 million loan from the African Development Bank and is in talks with the World Bank for a new $750 million loan, the finance ministry's head
November 20, 2024
Opposition politicians in Democratic Republic of Congo called on Wednesday for nationwide protests against President Felix Tshisekedi's plans to revise the constitution.
November 20, 2024
A veteran Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya at the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail
November 20, 2024
A Malian Islamist who helped run the police force imposing sharia law on Timbuktu after the city was captured by militants in 2012 was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the
November 20, 2024Southern Africa's regional bloc on Wednesday extended by a year its troop deployment in Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is helping the government fight rebel groups.
November 20, 2024
Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voiced broad support for converting a security mission helping Haitian police fight escalating gang warfare
November 20, 2024
South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan, who helped bring the first-ever FIFA World Cup tournament to Africa in 2010, has been arrested on fraud and theft charges
November 13, 2024Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said on Wednesday of the civilian who criticised the ruling junta's failure to organise
November 20, 2024
Rwanda's central bank held its key interest rate at 6.5% on Thursday after cutting it at the previous two rate-setting meetings this year.
November 21, 2024South Africa's central bank opted for another small cut to its main interest rate on Thursday, stressing a tough global
November 21, 2024
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of
November 21, 2024
Britain has barred Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos and Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash and has frozen their UK assets, the government
November 21, 2024
Kenya's government said it was investigating how a prominent Ugandan opposition leader was spirited out of Nairobi this week, amid growing criticism that it had
November 21, 2024
Mali's ruling junta on Thursday appointed its spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, as prime minister a day after firing Choguel Maiga who had criticised the administration, state
November 21, 2024
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Viatris Inc has been fined 7.58 million dirhams ($760,000) by Morocco's competition regulator for failing to notify it regarding its
November 21, 2024
Weeks of violent protests have marked the outcome of Mozambique disputed Oct. 9 elections, which saw ruling party Frelimo’s candidate Daniel Chapo declared the winner
November 13, 2024
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's Pastef party has won 130 out of 165 seats in legislative elections, securing a clear majority in
November 21, 2024
The arrest of an Italian-Egyptian pornographic actor in Cairo is raising concern among officials in Italy, where feelings are still running high over the
November 22, 2024At least seven mercenaries from Russia's Wagner private military contractor group were killed in an attack in central Mali that was claimed by an affiliate of al Qaeda in North
November 22, 2024Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan's capital Juba on Thursday evening after security forces moved to arrest the former head of the intelligence service, according to Reuters
November 21, 2024
At least nine people, including seven children from one family, died in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rain triggered a landslide that swept away several
November 23, 2024Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African
November 25, 2024
At least 22 Somali citizens died when two migrant boats capsized off the coast of Madagascar over the weekend, Somalia's Information Minister Daud Aweis said.
November 25, 2024Two major Adani Group projects in Kenya were scuttled after its founder Gautam Adani was indicted by U.S. prosecutors over his alleged role in a $265 million bribery scheme - allegations
November 22, 2024
Nigeria's economy grew 3.46% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2024, quicker than in the first two quarters of the year, statistics agency data showed on
November 25, 2024
Libyan soldiers said on Monday they had detained more than 300 migrants who were crossing the desert and trying to make it to the shores of the Mediterranean.
November 25, 2024The wife of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has said she does not expect him to get a fair trial after he was detained in neighbouring Kenya, brought home and accused
November 25, 2024
Sixteen people including 12 foreign nationals are missing after a tourist boat sank off Egypt's Red Sea coast, the local government said on Monday.
November 25, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs legend Christian Okoye (prono: oh-co-ye) is better known to NFL fans as the “Nigerian Nightmare” - but before he was the first Nigerian position player to make it big in the NFL, he switched gears from a career in athletics to become one of the best running backs in NFL history. Okoye is our latest African Voices Playmaker. With more, here's our Larry Madowo.
November 14, 2024
Amnesty International said Thursday it has identified several UAE-made armoured personnel carriers on the ground in Sudan after verifying pictures shared on social media showing the vehicles captured or destroyed by the Sudanese army
November 14, 2024
South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal mining
November 14, 2024
Several hundred people are believed to be in an illegal mine in South Africa, with the government refusing to help them in a bid to force them to come to the surface. CNN's Victoria Rubadiri reports.
November 14, 2024
Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
November 14, 2024
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to surface illegal miners who remain under a disused gold mine
November 15, 2024
Some women who fled the war in Sudan say they face sexual exploitation as refugees in Chad
November 16, 2024Local officials in eastern Congo say at least 13 people were killed and others kidnapped by extremist rebels linked to the Islamic State group
November 16, 2024People in Senegal are voting in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country’s president will be able to carry out ambitious reforms, six months after he was voted in on an anti-establishment platform
November 17, 2024
Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
November 17, 2024
Authorities in Gabon say voters have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution more than one year after mutinous soldiers overthrew the country’s longtime president and seized power in the oil-rich Central African nation
November 17, 2024Senegal's governing party is poised to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly
November 18, 2024
Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution Monday calling for an immediate cease-fire in the war between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces and delivery of humanitarian aid to millions in desperate need
November 18, 2024The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of vulnerable boats making the risky journey towards Europe
November 19, 2024
Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized
November 19, 2024
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is urging Libya and other nations to help arrest six men allegedly linked to a brutal militia blamed for multiple killings and other crimes in a strategically important western town where mass graves were discovered in 2020
November 20, 2024Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been charged with possession of a firearm illegally and seeking military support from abroad
November 20, 2024‘We don’t want to leave anyone behind,’ says Google’s Alex Okosi on the company’s drive to cut data costs in Africa
November 20, 2024
The International Criminal Court has sentenced an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to 10 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out when he headed the Islamic police in Timbuktu in the west African country of Mali
November 20, 2024At least seven members of a Nigerian government protection agency are missing after their convoy was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents in north-central Nigeria, authorities said
November 20, 2024South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at an abandoned mine, apparently fearing arrest by police officers at the site
November 20, 2024Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission
November 21, 2024
Police in Finland have detained five suspects over their alleged involvement in separatist violence in southeastern Nigeria
November 21, 2024
Kenya’s president says he has cancelled multimillion-dollar airport expansion and energy deals with Indian tycoon Gautam Adani after U.S. bribery and fraud indictments against one of Asia’s richest men
November 21, 2024When Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo was first approached in 2019 by a Russian who suggested he help promote the activities of the Central African Republic’s army and Russian forces in the country, the journalist believed that he was doing the right thing
November 21, 2024
Heavy gunfire has erupted in South Sudan’s capital of Juba at the home of the country’s former spy chief who has been under house arrest for the past two months
November 21, 2024Three tennis players from Nigeria linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium have been banned for more than two years and fined $10,000 apiece
November 22, 2024A Zimbabwean court has convicted an opposition leader and 34 other activists on charges of participating in an unlawful gathering, more than five months after they were taken into pre-trial detention
November 22, 2024Voters waited in long queues outside polling stations in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday morning to cast their ballots for a new president and parliament
November 27, 2024
The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland on Wednesday jointly condemned the escalating violence against civilians in Mozambique, a
November 27, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it shot down a drone that was carrying weapons and crossed from Egypt to Israel.
November 27, 2024In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used apparel from the West
November 23, 2024
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high
November 24, 2024
Somalia's government says 24 people died after two boats capsized off the Madagascar coast in the Indian Ocean
November 24, 2024South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial segregation, has died in Paris
November 24, 2024
Namibia’s Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah could become the country’s first female president if she wins the presidential election Wednesday
November 25, 2024
Egyptian officials say a tourist yacht has sunk in the Red Sea after warnings of rough waters and 16 people are missing
November 25, 2024
Botswana’s recent election saw a high level of voter turnout and resulted in a smooth transfer of power.
November 25, 2024
At least five people were killed and 20 others are missing after a speedboat struck a submerged log and capsized in Nigeria's southern state of Delta, a police
November 26, 2024Libyan military officials say they have apprehended hundreds of migrants traversing the country’s vast desert
November 25, 2024South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) brought a case to the country's top court on Tuesday to try to revive impeachment proceedings against
November 26, 2024
Angola is not in talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new financial assistance programme, its finance ministry said on Tuesday, prompting a slide in its foreign
November 26, 2024
Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.
November 26, 2024
Gambian teenager Omar Kebbeh has a roof over his head on the Spanish island of El Hierro and enough to eat thanks to a man he calls his
November 27, 2024
Mozambique's central bank cut its main interest rate by 75 basis points on Wednesday, the sixth cut in a row, as inflation remains subdued in the southern African country.
November 27, 2024
Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for seven missing people, the Red Sea
November 26, 2024
More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudanese government, a World Food Programme
November 26, 2024
The annual UN climate conference ended with a weaker deal than many countries hoped for, and with calls to overhaul the climate talks for the future.
November 26, 2024
Mali’s junta has taken popular news broadcaster Joliba TV News off air after it broadcast a politician's critical remarks about a close ally of the military regime, a journalist for the channel said Tuesday
November 26, 2024The United Nations in Chad has launched an internal investigation, following an Associated Press report on allegations of sexual exploitation of Sudanese refugees, including by aid workers
November 26, 2024Authorities in Mali have arrested four senior employees of a Canadian mining company as the military regime in the West African nation continues to detain workers to pressure companies in its crucial mining sector to pay millions in additional taxes
November 27, 2024
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