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May 16, 2022
Somalia’s new President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, is not new to the job. He served as […]
May 10, 2022
Michelle Bachelet calls on authorities to conduct independent investigations into the deadly religious violence. The […]
May 10, 2022
Laurent Bucyibaruta is the most senior figure yet to face justice in France over the […]
May 9, 2022
Niamey has consistently presented an image of a friendly and reliable partner to the international […]
May 4, 2022
The incident occured outside the international stadium in the heart of the capital, during prayers. […]
May 4, 2022
The Ethiopian government on Thursday denied claims of the announcement of the withdrawal of the […]
May 4, 2022
A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum was broken up […]
May 4, 2022
Al-Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an African Union base in Somalia on […]
May 4, 2022
Ethiopia’s ancient civilizations are believed to date back more than 3,000 years. Many of the country’s most […]
April 28, 2022
(Nairobi) – Sudan’s security forces have unlawfully detained hundreds of protesters since December 2021 and forcibly disappeared […]
April 28, 2022
At least 72 people have been killed and 11 wounded in a series of intercommunal […]
April 27, 2022
Khartoum — Sudanese authorities released four members of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC)* from […]
April 27, 2022
Nairobi, Kenya — The U.S. government is giving an additional $200 million to support humanitarian […]
April 26, 2022
The African Union has endorsed the decision by East African Community leaders to deploy a regional […]
April 26, 2022
TPLF says rebels withdraw from the neighboring region but the Afar police commissioner says fighters […]
April 26, 2022
CAIRO — Sudan’s military deployed further troops to West Darfur province to help stop tribal […]
April 26, 2022
Addis Abeba – The National Security Council, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and comprised of […]
April 26, 2022
A brutal military crackdown has upended countless lives but has not broken the spirit of […]
April 26, 2022
After nearly 18 months of conflict between the federal government and Tigray rebels, the health […]
— soaring climate disasters create a desperate future for millions of refugees across Eastern Africa
April 19, 2022
Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations […]
April 19, 2022
Addis Ababa — The East African military intelligence institutions have agreed to work together on […]
April 19, 2022
The United States welcomes the arrival today of a truck convoy carrying over 1,700 metric […]
April 14, 2022
Addis Abeba – Following the briefing and consultations on Yemen, Security Council members will discuss the […]
April 13, 2022
Three men from Eritrea aged 24, 23 and 22, residing at the Birzebbugia open centre […]
April 7, 2022
When Sudan’s military ousted the country’s civilian government in October it quickly set its sights […]
April 6, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he “cannot tolerate any indecisiveness” ahead of the West […]
April 6, 2022
The Sudanese village of Um Rakuba, home to over 20,000 refugees, in August 2021. After […]
April 6, 2022
Violence by the group, which aims to topple the UN-backed central government and impose its […]
April 4, 2022
Aid convoys led by the U.N.’s World Food Program (WPF) have entered Ethiopian territory controlled […]
April 4, 2022
Ethiopia’s federal government recently declared an immediate humanitarian truce in the war that has been […]
April 4, 2022
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Millions more Sudanese are set to go hungry this year as economic […]
April 4, 2022
In a major breakthrough, the president and his deputy sealed an agreement to unify the […]
April 1, 2022
Arusha. A new classification criteria for hotels and restaurants in East Africa is under review. The […]
April 1, 2022
Addis Abeba – A total of 498 – 157 children and 341 women – were flown […]
April 1, 2022
UNITED NATIONS, March 31 (Reuters) – Ethiopia failed at the United Nations on Thursday in […]
March 29, 2022
Seventeen months into a brutal civil war, the Ethiopian government announced on Friday that it […]
March 29, 2022
Hundreds of Ethiopian troops converged on a town near the border of the northern Tigray […]
March 28, 2022
The long-serving CEO of Africa’s largest airline Ethiopia Airlines has stepped down, citing ill health. […]
March 25, 2022
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday blaming Russia for […]
March 25, 2022
The European Union delegation in Tanzania has called for Africa’s support in what they have […]
March 25, 2022
Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum on Thursday to protest against last […]
March 24, 2022
At the team time trial held today, the Eritrean National Team won four Gold Medals […]
March 23, 2022
Residents from El Fasher told Radio Dabanga, that demonstrators marched from the city’s schools towards […]
March 23, 2022
Minister Mines and Petroleum Takele Uma signed the agreement with the US company. US Ambassador […]
March 21, 2022
Ethiopian authorities have detained several senior officials from Tigray, including members of the government’s last […]
March 18, 2022
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called on Ethiopian protagonists to embrace “genuine” reconciliation and […]
March 18, 2022
Israel’s High Court of Justice decided on Tuesday to remove an interim order which had […]
March 17, 2022
hartoum / Wad Madani — Angry demonstrators took to the streets of the Sudanese capital […]
March 17, 2022
Israeli authorities have banned Ethiopian Christian pilgrims groups from visiting the country for the upcoming […]
March 15, 2022
Thousands of male and female demonstrators were back in the streets of Khartoum on Tuesday. […]
March 15, 2022
Nairobi — Aid groups say Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are facing increased attacks and growing […]
March 14, 2022
Ethiopian authorities have pledged to prosecute individuals who apparently set a man alight – an […]
March 14, 2022
Somalia’s parliamentary elections are still dragging on, a few days to the deadline of March […]
March 9, 2022
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet is urging the Ethiopian government, Tigrayan […]
March 8, 2022
For 16 months, in an often hidden and ignored armed conflict in northern Ethiopia, warring […]
March 7, 2022
The government of the Tigray region in Ethiopia says it will approach the United Nations […]
March 7, 2022
The commission has received a grant for 23.5 million birrs (about $470,000) from the German […]
March 7, 2022
African countries are treading carefully in the Russia-Ukraine war to protect their national interests even […]
March 4, 2022
Seventeen African countries on Wednesday abstained from voting as the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted […]
March 4, 2022
Addis Abeba — Medical professionals who spoke with Deutsche Welle (DW) reporter in Mekelle, the capital […]
February 28, 2022
Sudan is under pressure from the European Union and the West to publicly condemn Russia’s […]
February 28, 2022
In a territorial expansion of the violent conflict between the regional Tigrayan government and the […]
February 28, 2022
Moalimu who survived a suicide bombing on January 16 this year, won the seat number […]
February 28, 2022
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainians and foreigners alike have been fleeing […]
February 22, 2022
Four entrepreneurs share their stories of how they are leading innovative businesses that are striving […]
February 22, 2022
WASHINGTON — Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group has an annual budget of $24 million to spend […]
February 22, 2022
Most humanitarian aid has ground to a halt in Tigray because of the Ethiopian government’s […]
February 21, 2022
February 19, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities on Saturday arrested Taha Osman a member of […]
February 21, 2022
February 17, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The Deputy Head of the Sovereign Council, Commander of the […]
February 21, 2022
Fighting in northern Ethiopia’s Afar region “engulfed” a camp housing refugees from neighboring Eritrea, the […]
February 7, 2022
Tigray is under what the United Nations calls a de facto blockade that is preventing […]
January 18, 2022
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has invited Russia to more talks on the Ukraine crisis as […]
January 18, 2022
The suspected gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue was known to […]
January 18, 2022
Prosecutors have filed additional charges against Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu as his trial on […]
December 23, 2021
Libya’s election commission has called for the country’s first presidential poll, due to take place […]
December 23, 2021
A government minister in Madagascar has said he swam for 12 hours to safety after […]
December 23, 2021
Wearing their traditional Maasai dress and surrounded by cows, Tanzania’s newest TikTok sensations, siblings Kili […]
December 22, 2021
A government minister in Madagascar has said he swam for 12 hours to safety after […]
December 21, 2021
A female soldier has been arrested in Nigeria for accepting a marriage proposal while on […]
December 21, 2021
An Egyptian court has sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison […]
December 20, 2021
In our series of letters from African writers, Algerian-Canadian journalist Maher Mezahi considers what it […]
December 20, 2021
People across Sudan have joined mass protests over the military’s takeover, as they mark the […]
December 20, 2021
This week the European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organisation […]
December 17, 2021
The government in Ivory Coast has resumed talks with opposition parties in a bid to […]
December 17, 2021
A court in Paris has found a French-Rwandan man, Claude Muhayimana, guilty of complicity in […]
December 17, 2021
The latest Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared over. Health […]
December 17, 2021
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session on Ethiopia, amid reports […]
December 15, 2021
Simon Odo, popularly known as “King of Satan”, has died at the age of 74, […]
December 15, 2021
Kenya has recorded cases of the new Omicron variant among travellers, the health minister said. […]
December 15, 2021
The Gambia’s opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has filed a petition at the country’s supreme […]
December 15, 2021
A South African court has ruled that the country’s former President Jacob Zuma should be […]
December 15, 2021
Mozambican President Filipe Myusi, has urged people to comply with measures to control the spread […]
December 15, 2021
The UN has said access to flooded areas in South Sudan has become a challenge […]
December 15, 2021
Zimbabwe has tightened restrictions in the country for another two weeks amid rising coronavirus cases. […]
December 15, 2021
Rwanda has confirmed six cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. It said the cases were […]
December 15, 2021
Sudan’s armed forces have deployed more troops along the disputed border with Ethiopia, announcing that […]
December 15, 2021
French military forces have left Timbuktu, nine years after they helped Malian troops recapture the […]
December 14, 2021
A group of Russian scientists have arrived in South Africa to study the new coronavirus […]
December 14, 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is investigating the deaths of nearly 100 people […]
December 14, 2021
Ethiopia has rejected a plan by the UN’s top human rights body to hold a […]
December 14, 2021
A university in Nigeria has confirmed an incident where a final year student was attacked […]
December 14, 2021
Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has tweeted photos of police […]
December 14, 2021
Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced that parliament will remain suspended until fresh elections are […]
December 13, 2021
The Mozambique branch of the French oil and gas company, Total Energies, has returned to […]
December 13, 2021
Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, has finished second runner-up in the Miss Universe contest held […]
December 13, 2021
The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has expressed ‘’strong concerns’’ over delays in Mali’s transition […]
December 13, 2021
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being treated for […]
December 10, 2021
The Ghanaian government has said that from midnight on Sunday all visitors to the country […]
December 10, 2021
The seventh batch of 176 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya have arrived in Rwanda, the […]
December 10, 2021
Dozens of inmates from Boma prison in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
December 10, 2021
Gunmen in Nigeria’s Niger state have shot dead at least 16 worshippers in a mosque. […]
December 10, 2021
Burkina Faso and Niger have issued a joint statement saying their combined armies have killed […]
December 9, 2021
The military court in Uganda has convicted two soldiers for the killing of three people […]
December 9, 2021
US President Joe Biden has nominated Meg Whitman as the ambassador to Kenya. The businesswoman […]
December 9, 2021
The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Minusma, has condemned the killing of […]
December 9, 2021
At least a dozen people were killed and scores wounded in the second day of […]
December 9, 2021
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe […]
December 9, 2021
The World Food Programme has suspended food aid distribution in Ethiopia’s Dessie and Kombolcha towns […]
December 8, 2021
The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has described as inhumane the responses […]
December 8, 2021
Two students in Nigeria were crushed to death while 12 others sustained varying injuries in […]
December 8, 2021
South Africa’s parliament has failed to secure the two-thirds majority it needed to amend the […]
December 7, 2021
The Somali electoral commission has nullified the election results for two parliamentary seats in the […]
December 7, 2021
Many prisoners are feared dead after a fire broke out in the main prison in […]
December 7, 2021
A Kenyan police officer shot dead his wife and five other people before turning the […]
December 7, 2021
The United States has imposed sanctions on a Democratic Republic of Congo national and 12 […]
December 7, 2021
A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges of inciting violent anti-government protests levelled against journalist and […]
December 7, 2021
The runner-up in The Gambia’s presidential election, Ousainou Darboe, has said he plans to challenge […]
December 6, 2021
A presidential aspirant in Kenya has promised loans of between $4,400 (£3,300) and $8,800 to […]
December 6, 2021
A rights group in Nigeria has asked the court for “an order of perpetual injunction” […]
December 6, 2021
Hundreds of people have taken part in protests on beaches in South Africa against planned […]
December 6, 2021
The trial of suspected organisers of a failed coup in Madagascar is set to begin […]
December 6, 2021
At least 12 soldiers in Niger have been killed by gunmen in a clash in […]
December 6, 2021
Nigeria has become the latest country to be added to Britain’s travel red list – […]
December 3, 2021
A South African court has dismissed an urgent application to halt a seismic survey by […]
December 3, 2021
A Kenyan father has sued his adult son demanding 20% of his salary to go […]
December 3, 2021
Ethiopia’s education ministry has announced a temporary closure of all secondary schools to allow students […]
December 3, 2021
The governor of South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been dismissed […]
December 3, 2021
Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has moved up to a higher rank in […]
December 3, 2021
Sudan’s military leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has called for the United Nations to support […]
December 3, 2021
Zimbabwe has confirmed the presence of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country. Speaking on […]
December 2, 2021
A group of Rwandan activists have demanded the cancellation of Congolese musician Koffi Olomidé’s concert […]
December 2, 2021
South Sudan’s government has promised to end child marriage by 2030 in line with the […]
December 2, 2021
Cameroonian opposition leader Maurice Kamto was on Wednesday detained at a hotel in the country’s […]
December 2, 2021
The Chinese embassy has urged its citizens to evacuate three provinces in the east of […]
December 2, 2021
South Africa has recorded a sharp increase in coronavirus infections which have doubled across the […]
December 2, 2021
A new study has found that Madagascar’s current food crisis has been caused mainly by […]
December 2, 2021
The African Union and United Nations have jointly criticised travel restrictions put on several Southern […]
December 1, 2021
Calls for a peace walk by Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu aimed at healing the city […]
December 1, 2021
Burkina Faso has given details of a major regional security operation launched with Ghana, Ivory […]
December 1, 2021
Nigeria’s Lagos state government has released a “white paper” on a report by a judicial […]
December 1, 2021
A boat carrying more than 50 people has capsized in the northern Nigerian state of […]
December 1, 2021
Zimbabwe has reimposed a lockdown and mandatory quarantines for all travellers amidst rising Covid cases […]
December 1, 2021
The Chinese foreign minister has arrived in Addis Ababa for an official visit to Ethiopia […]
November 30, 2021
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says he is “deeply concerned” by travel bans on southern […]
November 30, 2021
Sudanese activists have called for more protests across the country on Tuesday to denounce the […]
November 30, 2021
The mother of a Ugandan legislator has stormed parliament over the detention and ill health […]
November 30, 2021
China’s President Xi Jinping has promised to send to Africa some one billion Covid vaccine […]
November 30, 2021
Guinea’s ruling military junta says deposed president Alpha Condé has been transferred to his wife’s […]
November 30, 2021
Rwanda’s health ministry has announced that it will start giving third doses to the elderly […]
November 29, 2021
Seven people have died and dozens more are in hospital after eating poisonous turtle meat […]
November 29, 2021
Uganda’s national carrier has banned the sale of a local grasshopper delicacy onboard a flight […]
November 29, 2021
Zambia will from Tuesday start restricting people who have not been vaccinated against Covid from […]
November 29, 2021
The Ethiopian army chief has denied accusations that government forces killed Sudanese soldiers at the […]
November 29, 2021
At least 22 people have been killed in an attack in a camp for displaced […]
November 29, 2021
The government in Rwanda has announced new measures that include the suspension of flights to […]
November 26, 2021
The head of the agency leading Africa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says imposing restrictions […]
November 26, 2021
Burkina Faso President Roch Kaboré has promised military and cabinet changes in the coming days, […]
November 26, 2021
Kenya is offering senior citizens aged 75 and above free entry to the national park […]
November 26, 2021
Morocco will from Friday midnight suspend flights to and from France because of rising coronavirus […]
November 26, 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) is due to hold a special meeting on Friday to […]
November 26, 2021
A Kenyan university is under fire over a poster linking rape to indecent dressing. The […]
November 26, 2021
Britain is halting all flights from South Africa and five other countries in the region […]
November 25, 2021
Zimbabwe’s finance minister will present a national budget almost double that of the previous year […]
November 25, 2021
The Gambia’s final report of a probe into alleged human rights violations during the 22-year […]
November 25, 2021
The news agencies have been filing some pictures of the aftermath of this morning’s huge […]
November 25, 2021
Ethiopia has expelled four Irish diplomats because of Ireland’s stance on the ongoing conflict in […]
November 25, 2021
Police in Somalia have confirmed the death of eight civilians in a car bombing in […]
November 25, 2021
There’s been a big explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Local news reports say a […]
November 25, 2021
The government in Burkina Faso has extended the suspension of mobile internet services. Services were […]
November 25, 2021
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to the fighting in […]
November 24, 2021
The United Nations has declared 7 July each year as the world’s official day to […]
November 24, 2021
Media and journalism professional bodies in Burkina Faso have issued a joint statement condemning the […]
November 24, 2021
Sudan has launched investigations into violations against protesters since the 25 October military coup, reinstated […]
November 24, 2021
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has declared a state of emergency in the wake […]
November 24, 2021
Ethiopian Olympic legend Haile Gebrselassie has announced plans to go to the battle front, just […]
November 23, 2021
A South African rights commission has raised concerns over social media messages linking foreign nationals […]
November 23, 2021
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he was setting off, in person, to march on […]
November 23, 2021
The health authorities in Kenya have urged people to use other alternatives as the country […]
November 23, 2021
Covid cases in South Africa are on the rise ahead of a predicted fourth wave. […]
November 23, 2021
The United States says it’s encouraged by Sunday’s deal reinstating the Sudanese prime minister, Abdalla […]
November 23, 2021
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he will now lead his troops “from the battle […]
November 22, 2021
President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked South African men to play a greater role in preventing […]
November 22, 2021
A team investigating the disappearance and subsequent death of a female Somali spy agent, Ikran […]
November 22, 2021
Nigerian artist Wizkid carried the day in Africa music awards on Sunday night. He bagged […]
November 22, 2021
One of Egypt’s most celebrated actresses Soheir El-Bably has died at the age of 86. […]
November 22, 2021
France asked the president of Burkina Faso to intervene after a French military convoy was […]
November 22, 2021
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he is “encouraged” by the deal to […]
November 22, 2021
Kenyans who haven’t been vaccinated against Covid will not be able to receive government services […]
November 19, 2021
Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Nigerian authorities to take measures […]
November 19, 2021
South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider, Eskom, says it’s found clear evidence of sabotage at one […]
November 19, 2021
Special envoys from the African Union and the US have returned to Ethiopia in a […]
November 19, 2021
Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye has dismissed Commerce Minister Capitoline Niyonizigiye. She has been accused of […]
November 19, 2021
The UN says six of its staff have been released in Ethiopia, leaving five in […]
November 19, 2021
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential palace […]
November 19, 2021
Sudanese authorities have restored the internet nearly a month since it was suspended after the […]
November 19, 2021
The US has ended sanctions imposed against Burundi six years ago, citing reforms in the […]
November 18, 2021
Thousands of Nigerian railway workers have begun a three-day strike to push the government to […]
November 18, 2021
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a new refugee bill that allows asylum […]
November 18, 2021
Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has admitted to problems that “must be corrected […]
November 18, 2021
Kenyans online have welcomed the signing of a new law that prevents secret lovers from […]
November 18, 2021
Gunmen in the north-western Nigerian state of Sokoto have killed at least 21 people in […]
November 18, 2021
Doctors in Sudan say 14 people have been shot dead by security forces as thousands […]
November 18, 2021
The US has removed Nigeria from the list of religious violators, ahead of the visit […]
November 17, 2021
Hundreds of protesters held demonstrations in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday demanding the resignation […]
November 17, 2021
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) has said it was behind the blasts in Uganda’s […]
November 17, 2021
South Africa has declared four days of national mourning following the death on Thursday of […]
November 17, 2021
The US State Department has warned American citizens in Ethiopia that it will not be […]
November 16, 2021
At least four people, among them two police officers, have been killed in two separate […]
November 16, 2021
The Kenya government says security agencies are on high alert following the escape of three […]
November 16, 2021
Police in Uganda are using sniffer dogs to look for more evidence and detect any […]
November 16, 2021
Two blasts have gone off in the central business district of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Reports […]
November 16, 2021
The Ethiopian government has released about half of the UN’s contracted aid drivers arrested last […]
November 16, 2021
Sudanese security officials have released an Al Jazeera TV network’s bureau chief who was arrested […]
November 16, 2021
The authorities in Kenya have placed a bounty on three “armed and dangerous” inmates who […]
November 16, 2021
Motorbike-riding gunmen have shot dead at least 15 civilians and injured many others in the […]
November 15, 2021
A student at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria has been detained by the police […]
November 15, 2021
A Kenyan court is expected to give its verdict on whether four police officers are […]
November 15, 2021
Archaeologists in Egypt say they’ve made one of the most important discoveries in decades. They […]
November 15, 2021
The government in South Africa has withdrawn support for Miss South Africa in the Miss […]
November 15, 2021
At least 20 people have been killed in a militant attack in Burkina Faso’s northern […]
November 10, 2021
Police in Nigeria say they’re investigating a rare incident that led to two cousins allegedly […]
November 10, 2021
It appears that internet services in Sudan have not been restored, several hours after a […]
November 10, 2021
Mali’s interim parliament vice-president has been freed, weeks after he was arrested for public order […]
November 10, 2021
Mauritius has closed all schools as the number of Covid cases continue to rise. Education […]
November 10, 2021
The trial of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu resumes on Wednesday in Abuja. The charges […]
November 10, 2021
A new report by the Human Rights Watch has accused the Ethiopian government of blocking […]
November 9, 2021
Amnesty International has demanded compensation for the Benet people of Uganda who were evicted from […]
November 9, 2021
Two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arrested in the US for […]
November 9, 2021
The government of South Sudan says more than one million people have been affected by […]
November 9, 2021
The UN has warned that Ethiopia is at a risk of descending into a widening […]
October 26, 2021
Reports from Nigeria’s Niger state say at least 18 people were killed on Monday after […]
October 19, 2021
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has formed a “crisis cell” to resolve what he has […]
October 19, 2021
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is concerned about reports on the use of […]
October 19, 2021
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the families of victims killed in an attack […]
October 19, 2021
Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned […]
October 19, 2021
An organisation supporting Somalis living in the UK says its members have been receiving death […]
October 15, 2021
The Liberian teenage motorcycle taxi driver who found and returned money to a prominent businesswoman […]
October 15, 2021
South Africa’s elite task force rescued two cabinet ministers and a deputy, after they were […]
October 15, 2021
The Ugandan government agency in charge of distributing Covid-19 vaccines to government health facilities has […]
October 15, 2021
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked the state oil corporation boss Bol Ring Mourwel. […]
October 15, 2021
The US has pledged an additional 17 million coronavirus vaccines to the African continent, which […]
October 13, 2021
A french soldier has died in an accident during a maintenance operation in Mali. French […]
October 13, 2021
The court in Botswana has postponed the ruling for a case seeking the overturning of […]
October 13, 2021
The influential younger brother of the late Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has been sent to […]
October 12, 2021
A dawn raid at a prison in Empangeni city in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province […]
October 12, 2021
The Ethiopian army and allied forces have launched a second day of ground attacks as […]
October 12, 2021
Kenya is set to disregard the judgement of The International Court of Justice on the […]
October 11, 2021
Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia say federal troops and their allies have launched coordinated attacks […]
October 11, 2021
The government in Nigeria’s north-central Kwara state says it has suspended the head of an […]
October 11, 2021
About 120 school pupils have been hospitalised in South Sudan after a deworming exercise by […]
October 11, 2021
A popular musician in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Delcato Idengo, has been arrested by […]
October 11, 2021
The head of the European Union in Liberia has apologised for saying that Liberia’s capital […]
October 11, 2021
Prosecutors in Egypt have ordered the arrest of three people following the dumping of thousands […]
October 11, 2021
The Algerian president says he demands “total respect” from France, in the latest escalation of […]
October 8, 2021
Ethiopian Airlines’ Facebook page has been hacked and a bogus message from the chief executive […]
October 8, 2021
Guniea’s new Prime Minister Mohamed Beavogui has called for unity to ensure a smooth transition […]
October 8, 2021
More than 60 people, mostly children, are reported missing after the vessel they were travelling […]
October 8, 2021
Graça Machel, the activist, campaigner and widow of Nelson Mandela, has urged South Africans to […]
October 8, 2021
The Nato alliance is studying options to offer support to troops fighting against militant jihadists […]
October 8, 2021
Police in north-west Nigeria say they have rescued 187 villagers abducted from their homes by […]
October 7, 2021
A gorilla photographed in 2019 posing for a relaxed selfie with rangers at an orphanage […]
October 7, 2021
Burkina Faso’s President Roch March Christian Kabore on Wednesday reshuffled the country’s military leadership amid […]
October 7, 2021
Events are being held in South Africa to mark the 90th birthday of the Nobel […]
October 7, 2021
The UN Security Council has been told that increasingly alarming accounts of hunger-related deaths are […]
October 7, 2021
Guinea’s military leader has named former civil servant Mohamed Beavogui as prime minister to oversee […]
October 6, 2021
Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso could take legal action after he was named in the leaked […]
October 6, 2021
The southern Africa regional bloc, SADC, has agreed to extend the presence of regional troops […]
October 6, 2021
Mali in West Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. It’s also […]
October 6, 2021
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned the deportation of […]
October 6, 2021
International medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has condemned the killing of one of its […]
October 6, 2021
Mali’s foreign ministry summoned France’s ambassador on Tuesday to protest against comments by French President […]
October 5, 2021
Seven UN officials who had until Sunday to leave Ethiopia have left “for their safety”, […]
October 5, 2021
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has announced the start of an […]
October 5, 2021
Kenyan newspapers have given subdued coverage to what came out of the Pandora Papers which revealed how the […]
October 5, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he hopes the diplomatic tension with Algeria will ease […]
October 5, 2021
Four suspected Islamic State-linked militants and one Sudanese soldier were killed during clashes in the […]
October 5, 2021
Suspected Islamist militants have killed 14 soldiers in northern Burkina Faso. Seven other soldiers were […]
October 5, 2021
Tanzania’s government made an appeal for calm in the country during a six-hour outage of […]
October 4, 2021
South Africa’s Environment Minister, Barbara Creecy, says the spill from a chemical plant attacked by […]
October 4, 2021
Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has described the deportation of Somalis from the self-declared […]
October 4, 2021
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has just been sworn in. He now begins a five-year […]
October 4, 2021
More than 500 migrants attempting to get to Europe were on Sunday intercepted off the […]
October 4, 2021
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered a reduction of income tax to “preserve purchasing power” […]
October 4, 2021
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is expected to be inaugurated and form a new government […]
October 4, 2021
The Sudanese government says the country is on the point of running out of essential […]
October 1, 2021
The US and the UK are the latest nations to condemn Ethiopia’s decision to expel […]
October 1, 2021
Mauritius has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated tourists after being closed for 16 months. […]
October 1, 2021
The Gambia has delayed a long-awaited report on crimes committed under former President Yahya Jammeh. […]
October 1, 2021
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that a ban on Twitter in the country be […]
October 1, 2021
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has denied holding talks on gay rights during his trip to […]
October 1, 2021
Thousands of people took part in a demonstration in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in support […]
October 1, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new Covid-19 vaccination certificate, which he said […]
October 1, 2021
Guinea’s military leader Col Mamady Doumbouya will on Friday be sworn in as the interim […]
September 30, 2021
Kaduna state in north-west Nigeria has shutdown telecom services as part of the security measures […]
September 30, 2021
An ostrich on the loose caused chaos on a main road of the South African […]
September 30, 2021
Malawi’s telecoms regulator has fined the local business of India’s Bharti Airtel over $2.5m (£1.9m) […]
September 30, 2021
The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries has launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 2,000 […]
September 30, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize despite corruption allegations […]
September 30, 2021
The Nigerian government has approved a two-week paternity leave for civil servants. This signifies a […]
September 30, 2021
Pope Francis has urged Nigeria to guarantee the safety of all citizens in the country […]
September 30, 2021
More than seven million people in three Ethiopian regions are voting in elections delayed from […]
September 30, 2021
The government in Kenya has announced a crack down on foreigners who are in the […]
September 30, 2021
Only 14 out of Africa’s 54 countries have met the global target of vaccinating more […]
September 29, 2021
The UN’s humanitarian chief has said areas hit by Ethiopia’s civil war are getting just […]
September 29, 2021
South African Airways and Kenya Airways have signed a co-operation agreement with the long-term ambition […]
September 29, 2021
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the release of a special investigation report into […]
September 29, 2021
Fifteen people have died from rabies in central Mozambique since the beginning of the year […]
September 29, 2021
Five security officers have been killed during a search in Sudan’s capital Khartoum targeting a […]
September 29, 2021
Algeria will on Wednesday begin producing Chinese-developed Sinovac vaccines for its own use and export […]
September 29, 2021
A number of civilians have been killed by a Nigerian air strike targeting suspected jihadists […]
September 28, 2021
The US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said that France has his continued support for […]
September 28, 2021
US President Joe Biden has nominated Dr John Nkengasong to lead the well-resourced public health […]
September 28, 2021
Guinea’s military junta has barred its members from running in the next elections that will […]
September 27, 2021
Billboards with large portraits of Liberian President George Weah are being lined up on the […]
September 27, 2021
Ethiopians are celebrating the annual Meskel festival, the first big festival of the Ethiopian religious […]
September 27, 2021
A plan to tax online content creators in Egypt has sparked mixed reactions. The country’s […]
September 27, 2021
Sudan’s transitional authority has reached an agreement with protesters who had blocked two crucial pipelines […]
September 27, 2021
Christians in Mozambique resumed in-person worship on Sunday after Covid-19 measures were relaxed by the […]
September 27, 2021
More students who had been kidnapped in northern Nigeria have been released after payment of […]
September 24, 2021
Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini has blamed unnamed individuals for instigating a wave of […]