In tonight’s edition: French President Emmanuel Macron announces a reduction of France’s military operations in […]

Uganda has recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic begun. A total […]

Ethiopia’s electoral board has postponed until September elections in two of the country’s federal states […]

Muslim leaders in Burundi have disowned a cleric’s criticism against the interior minister after he […]

A 63-year-old Zimbabwean woman is suing the police boss and home affairs minister for alleged […]

The United States has condemned Nigeria’s ban on Twitter. The US Department of State’s Spokesman […]

Kenya has lifted a ban on direct flights to and from Somalia barely a month […]

Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing “catastrophic” food shortages, according to […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has put his Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on special leave, […]

The United Nations’ refugee agency says thousands of villagers in Burkina Faso urgently need water, […]

People in a district of Ethiopia’s Tigray region have told the BBC, they are on […]

Eritrea has blamed the US government for the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. In […]

Schools in Mekelle, the capital of the Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, have reopened seven […]

Mozambique’s mobile firm Vodacom which oversees the money transfer platform, M-Pesa, says it blocks around […]

Twitter has been suspended in Nigeria after what could be described as a spat between the social […]

Several areas in Ethiopia’s northern region in Tigray are “on the brink of famine”, the […]

The UN Security Council has called on the Central African Republic authorities and other forces […]

Hospitals in Kenya are preparing for a surge in Covid-19 cases with some launching oxygen […]

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on people accused of inciting violence in English-speaking […]

Nigeria says it’s in discussions with Twitter, having suspended the social media platform over the […]

All artisanal mines are being closed in the northern province of Sahel, in Burkina Faso, […]

Belarusian club FC Vitebsk said on Monday that Nigerian footballer Kelvin Odenigbo drowned over the […]

The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo says people can start returning to […]

A collision involving two passenger trains in southern Pakistan has killed at least 40 people […]

Col Assimi Goïta, the leader of Mali’s junta, has officially been sworn in as the […]

The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival […]

State media in Sudan say nearly 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in […]

Congolese musician Aimé Nkanu says he has alerted French police after suffering a racist attack. […]

A sense of normalcy is returning to a Rwandan district ravaged by volcanic activity in […]

The two opposition parties in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have won the majority of […]

Zambian police chief Kakoma Kanganja has denied reports that the country’s security forces fired on […]

This month students in eSwatini demonstrated outside the country’s capital to demand action, alleging that […]

wo Libyan security officers were killed and five others injured in a blast at a […]

Colonel Assimi Goïta is being sworn in as Mali’s interim president on Monday. It’s a […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has shut down schools and suspended public gatherings as the country […]

Thousands of people in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, have been marching to demand justice for […]

Twitter has removed a post by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari threatening punishment for regional secessionists […]

In a joint statement, the German and Namibian governments have fleshed out some of the […]

Gunmen hijacked a school bus in the early hours of Thursday in Akure, the capital […]

A Kenyan court has allowed over 1,000 residents living near a British military training base […]

A joint African Union and United Nations team is in South Sudan visiting towns and […]

A driver in Kenya’s Kitui county was admitted to a hospital following a bizarre incident […]

Namibia’s state-run hospitals are “facing a critical shortage of life-saving oxygen” as the number of […]

Two lecturers at Nigeria’s University of Lagos (Unilag) have been dismissed following an investigation into […]

A driver in Kenya’s Kitui county was admitted to a hospital following a bizarre incident […]

The South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) has suspended operations in Torit, Eastern Equatoria state after […]

Uganda’s Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala was discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery to remove […]

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has asked Sudan to hand over a key suspect accused […]

Forty-two people have been charged after they were arrested in a raid on an LGBTI+ […]

he UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, is urging the world’s richest countries to donate a fifth […]

Two parents of kidnapped schoolchildren in Tegina in Nigeria’s central Niger state have died of […]

Ugandan Minister Katumba Wamala, who survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday, has thanked the rider […]

A humanitarian organisation says at least 23 migrants have drowned off the coast of Tunisia […]

Amnesty International has asked Chad to ensure that officers responsible for killing protesters during demonstrations […]

South Africa’s power company Eskom has announced load shedding, or scheduled blackouts, that will last […]

The leader of a Western Saharan separatist group arrived in Algeria early on Wednesday, after […]

Police in Uganda have released street camera footage of two men believed to be behind […]

Kenyan authorities have arrested a Ghanaian national for allegedly fraudulently obtaining $83,000 (£58,490) from a […]

UN’s World Food Programme says hunger levels are increasing in the northern Ethiopian region as […]

A film is to be made by Disney about a woman who was adopted in […]

Nearly 500,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been left without clean drinking […]

Mali has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following last week’s military coup – […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that his government will not tolerate any action promoting […]

Mali’s transitional President Col Assimi Goïta has named Choguel Kokalla Maïga as the country’s new […]

The head of an Islamic school in Nigeria where some students were abducted on Sunday […]

Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo is set to return home this month, weeks after […]

The African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has appealed to the members of the […]

The French foreign minister has called for strict adherence to Mali’s transition timetable by military […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the security authorities to hasten efforts to rescue more […]

The daughter of Uganda’s Transport Minister Gen Katumba Wamala and his driver have died from […]

Environmental campaigners have warned that exports of fish meal and fish oil from West Africa […]

Angolan President João Lourenço has sacked the head of his security team, Pedro Sebastião. He […]

The United Nations food agency says more than 90% of people in Ethiopia’s northern region […]

A recording purporting to be Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed saying he would rather die […]

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has vowed to defeat the criminals who shot and wounded […]

Kenya has warned that it may impose a total ban on flights from Somalia including […]

If Boko Haram leader is indeed dead, some experts say they expect a number of […]

The United Nations has warned that as many as 400,000 people have fled the Congolese […]

The Ugandan government is considering a second Covid-19 lockdown to manage a sharp increase in […]

Hundreds of people are queuing at Uganda’s health ministry offices to get vaccinated as the […]

A suspected burglar has been arrested in Zimbabwe’s southern district of Gutu for allegedly using […]

The German government has confirmed more than a billion dollars in development aid for Namibia […]

The rescue operation in Nigeria’s Kebbi state has entered day three with 60 bodies having […]

The leaders of several southern African countries have agreed to form a joint armed alert […]

Three African artists have been nominated for the international award in this year’s American BET […]

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo has told off owners of mining equipment that were burnt […]

A Ugandan military court has released on bail 17 people detained five months ago while […]

Kenya will receive 72,000 of Covid-19 vaccines from the Covax facility this week. The vaccines […]

At least four police officers have been killed in the latest attack on police stations […]

The Somali government has said that federal and regional leaders have made progress on election […]

Hundreds of supporters of former South Africa President Jacob Zuma have gathered outside Pietermaritzburg High […]

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has plead not guilty to corruption charges at the […]

Hundreds of people are believed to have fled their homes in Rwanda’s western town of […]

A senior UN official has warned the Security Council that urgent measures are needed to […]

The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, granted FRANCE 24 and RFI an interview against the […]

Pressure from the West, particularly the US, on Ethiopia to cease military operations and engage […]

People across the continent are celebrating Africa Day. The annual event commemorates the day when […]

Mali’s transitional president and prime minister were detained by soldiers hours after the announcement of […]

US President Joe Biden and Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi discussed the Nile dam dispute […]

Sudan has declared a state of emergency and a night curfew in areas affected by […]

US prosecutors have opened a case against Chadian diplomat Mahamoud Adam Bechir, his former deputy […]

The UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, says it has rescued 530 missing children who were separated […]

Eritrea has celebrated its independence as the president lauded the nation’s ability to defeat challenges […]

Ethiopia has accused the United States of meddling in its affairs after Washington announced restrictions on economic […]

The world is “at war” against COVID-19, the UN chief says, calling for the application […]

Nurses around the world are in crisis, whether they are in the eye of the […]

The authorities in Nigeria have published the names of 90 travellers who arrived in the […]

The UN has condemned last week’s killing of a South Sudanese doctor who worked for […]

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has praised Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan, saying that the […]

Zambian lawyer John Sangwa is challenging President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility to run in August elections […]

Ernestine Kabuo returned home after fleeing the lava flow in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, […]

Eritrea is officially marking 30 years of independence from Ethiopia. Former BBC Tigrinya editor Samuel […]

Mozambique’s army over the weekend foiled an attempted attack by Islamist militants in the northern […]

Hundreds of residents have been returning to their destroyed houses after Mount Nyiragongo erupted on […]

Fourteen people have died in southern Guinea-Bissau after a cargo truck crashed into village homes, […]

The United States is imposing wide-ranging restrictions on economic and security assistance to Ethiopia over […]

Patients who are critically ill with Covid-19 are more likely to die in Africa than […]

The African Union (AU) has called for a democratic transition in Chad within 18 months […]

Angeline Mukan-dutiye, the only woman in a group of 21 Rwandans facing terrorism charges, has […]

The US has completed the process to remove Sudan from its list of state-sponsored terrorism. […]

Nigeria’s military is investigating reports that the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram may […]

Ethiopia’s general election will now take place on 21 June, 16 days later than planned, […]

Ethiopia ‘destroys Tigray rebels’ coming from Sudan Ethiopia’s military says it has “destroyed” a group […]

Food insecurity in conflict-hit Ethiopian region remains dire, with increasing reports of people dying of […]

Israel’s military has been giving details to Israeli media about its overnight strikes. Spokesman Brig […]

South African electricity provider Eskom has suspended, load shedding, or scheduled blackouts, from morning until […]

France has announced to cancel the debt of $5 billion and earmark another $1.5 billion […]

Sudan has announced the resignation of its chief prosecutor and sacked the head of the […]

The head of the World Health Organization has described the situation in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray […]

The United Nations has confirmed that military forces are impeding humanitarian access to parts of […]

The corruption trial of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been pushed to 26 […]

Thirty people were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of  Congo (DRC) after a […]

Seven members of the Sudan military have been arrested, and will be prosecuted in connection […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that he will not allow the delayed general […]

Ethiopia has delayed its national election again, after some opposition parties said they would not […]

A senior official in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region has said there is a deliberate campaign […]

Many of the people killed in November in Ethiopia’s sacred city of Aksum, described by […]

More than 20 women say they were sexually abused by aid workers during last year’s […]

Former Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has been summoned to appear before a traditional court […]

The African Union (AU) Mission in Somalia, Amisom is expected to remain in the country […]

Kenya has suspended flights to Somalia just days after its neighbour said diplomatic ties between […]

Ahead of next month’s elections, Ethiopia’s electoral body has said that “shortfalls are inevitable”, but […]

Ethiopia’s Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said it is “alarmed” by the public parading and […]

Many of the people killed in November in Ethiopia’s sacred city of Aksum, described by […]

The common political vision of the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia threatens to throw […]

The TPLF, not the Abiy government and its allies, is responsible for the ongoing conflict […]

The head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has accused government forces of carrying out “genocide” in […]

Eleven women tell Reuters they had been raped by soldiers as a top Ethiopian official […]

Ace Magashule, the suspended secretary-general of South Africa’s governing party ANC, has hit back by […]

Protesters in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Enugu went into wild jubilation after a popular […]

The remaining 27 students abducted almost two months ago from a forestry college in the […]

The Ethiopian government has appointed Dr Abraham Belay as chief executive of the interim administration […]

Ethiopia’s lower house of parliament has approved with a majority vote a resolution by Prime […]

African and other world leaders must urgently speak out and do more to stem the […]

The opposition party National Movement of Amhara (NaMA) has issued a statement expressing its condolences on the […]

One of more than 60,000 people to have crossed into Sudan, Dr Tewodros Tefera works […]

Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki is in Khartoum for talks with Sudanese officials, in a two-day […]

The Ethiopian government has expressed disappointment at the EU’s decision not to send an observer […]

Schools in South Sudan reopened countrywide after having been closed for more than a year […]

Ethiopian National Defense Forces have joined Eritrean Defense Forces in large numbers in the ongoing […]

The charity Save The Children says almost 5,000 children displaced by the fighting in the […]

The European Union has cancelled its observer mission for Ethiopia’s June elections citing “lack of […]

The Ethiopian government launched a huge security operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front last […]

As fighting in Ethiopia’s northernmost region hits the six-month mark, we take a look at […]

Somalia’s president has moved to ease tensions in the capital, Mogadishu, by calling for fresh […]

Jeffrey Feltman, the new American envoy to the Horn of Africa, faces a cascade of […]

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed will address the nation on Tuesday after two key states […]

While the world is focusing on the humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia caused by the war between […]

The N’Djamena sky this morning was filled with smoke as protesters burnt tyres and French […]

The opposition in Chad has urged the public to turn up on Tuesday for a […]

Giant telecom operators from the UK, South Africa, Kenya and Japan are bidding to enter […]

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Ethiopia to address what he described […]

In first joint statement after nearly six months of fighting in northern Ethiopian region, Security […]

War broke out in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region at the worst possible time for Abraha […]

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has received his Covid-19 vaccine, as part of a national […]

Chad’s ruling military council has rejected an offer of ceasefire talks with rebels it has […]

Ethiopia’s chief ombudsman says the number of people killed in recent clashes between the country’s […]

Ugandans online have cheered on British actor Daniel Kaluuya who is of Ugandan origin after […]

South Africa will resume its Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine rollout on Wednesday following recommendations […]

Nigeria’s presidency says it “stands behind” an embattled minister facing calls for his resignation after […]

Thousands of Chadians attended the state funeral of long-serving President Idriss Déby after he was […]

Sudan is caught in the middle of a decade-long row between Ethiopia and Egypt over […]

Chadian president’s son has also taken over as head of transitional military council. Chad faced […]

Ethiopian and Eritrean troops have been accused of committing atrocities The US State Department says […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia registered 1,329 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the […]

More than a million are displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray region says UNICEF, and the welfare […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking $4.3 billion (£3b) in compensation over its conflict […]

Mahamat Idriss Deby was named interim president by a transitional council of military officers [ […]

There were mass protests in at least seven towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, including the […]

Hundreds have lost their lives in recent months due to ethnic violence in Africa’s second […]

Chad’s President Idriss Deby, 68, died while commanding troops on the front line of a […]

At least 100 bodies thought to be people killed in a crackdown on a sit-in […]

An unknown number of troops and civilians, including children and women, have been killed and […]

UN humanitarian chief tells Security Council that reports of atrocities by Eritrean forces continue A […]

Introduction In search of an integrative discourse for the Eritrean politics, within the dynamic setting […]

The last general election was held in Ethiopia in 2015Image caption: The last general election […]

Amnesty International says Eritrean troops have killed three people and injured at least 19 others […]

US Security Council is due to meet to discuss Tigray situation in coming hours and […]

Singer The Weekend has said he is donating $1 million to fund humanitarian work in […]

At least 20 people have been killed and three others injured in a road accident […]

Cargo transportation between the UK and Kenya may be disrupted by up to a week […]

Ethiopia said Wednesday (7 April) it would not be deterred from impounding water at its […]

A deadly attack on Tigrayan people in northern Ethiopia  has triggered warnings that violence against the […]

Former foes have found a common enemy in the TPLF. Will it lead beyond battlefield […]

“I am telling our brothers in Ethiopia, let’s not reach the point where you touch […]

The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take […]

Local and regional uncertainties prevail about the next steps that Egypt will take if negotiations […]

The “turbulence and crisis” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region risks leaving a vacuum for extremist groups […]

In early February, the crash of shells and bullets in the remote Jawmaro mountains in […]

Ethiopia has accused Egypt and Sudan of having stalled the latest round of talks on […]

Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2019, waited the statutory […]

A video surfaced last week documenting a massacre of unarmed men in the Tigray region […]

As efforts are underway to revive negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to solve the […]

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has threatened Ethiopia as it insists on filling a controversial Nile dam. […]

Congress increased pressure on the Biden administration over the humanitarian situation in the Tigray region […]

The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s conflict-stricken Tigray state remains extremely dire, said a UN spokesman […]

Egypt on Wednesday said units of its Air Force and commandos have held war games […]

On Nov. 4, 2020, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked Ethiopia’s Northern Command headquarters. […]

Australia welcomes the joint inquiry into the Tigray conflict announced by the UN Office for […]

In recent weeks, tens of thousands of displaced people have arrived in cities in the […]

The European Union has expressed willingness to help mediate the crisis between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over […]

Adigrat, Ethiopia – Fourteen-year-old Mibrak Esayus recalls the day last November when she says Eritrean […]

SHIRE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – The dusty buses keep coming, dozens a day, mattresses, chairs and […]

New claims emerge of sexual atrocities and massacres by troops Pressure is mounting on Ethiopia’s […]

In a bid to confront unilateral Ethiopian policies on the Blue Nile, Cairo and Khartoum […]

The United Nations and an Ethiopian rights agency said on Thursday they had agreed to […]

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday its staff had been attacked, and […]

UM RAKUBA CAMP, Sudan — The home-brew she served tasted sour and wrong, lacking the […]

Eritrea will pull its troops out of the Tigray region, Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, […]

Women have been gang-raped at gunpoint and men forced to rape their own family members […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has admitted that troops from neighbouring Eritrea were present in […]

The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), under the Chairmanship of […]

Amid a worsening humanitarian situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, reports of indiscriminate and […]

The police of South Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to work together to fight cross-border […]

US President Joe Biden is sending Senator Chris Coons to Ethiopia to meet with Prime Minister […]

Before fighting broke out in late 2020, the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia was home to around […]

The EU Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on eleven individuals and four entities responsible […]

Every now and then, East Africa breaks into world consciousness. It happened in the mid […]

As Ethiopia continues its deadly military campaign and humanitarian onslaught in the Tigray region, Prime […]

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson exchanged views in a phone […]

The calm is deceptive. A stubbled crater attests to a recent artillery barrage, but with […]

The shootings began after lunch. It was Friday, Jan. 8, the day after Genna, the […]

According to various reports and claims on social media, three additional nations are allegedly involved in […]

Christians in western Ethiopia fear for their lives after dozens of believers were reportedly massacred […]

The head of Sudan’s ruling interim military council called on Ethiopia to withdraw its troops […]

Countries like Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Egypt and Kenya are known as terrible war […]

Developing an Egyptian-Sudanese “strategic partnership”, the tripartite talks between Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia over the […]

Ethiopia has rejected calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the US in the ongoing […]

On the surface, Addis Ababa appears much as it always has. The streets are full […]

Media reports say that clashes between Ethiopian and Tigrayan forces continue in Tigray and over […]

The Ethiopian Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Seleshi Bekele announced Wednesday that construction work […]

The traffic accident happened early on Monday when a freight truck carrying about 25 passengers […]

A decades-old border dispute over fertile farmland between Sudan and Ethiopia is feeding regional rivalry […]

Kibrom Hailu wasn’t too worried when his 15-year-old son stepped out to play volleyball one […]

Today, a flight carrying 140 stranded migrants departed from Aden International Airport for Addis Ababa. […]

Sudan and Ethiopia have disagreed on a third issue, with Khartoum now accusing Addis Ababa […]

Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate […]

The US administration is reviewing its policy regarding the Egyptian-Sudanese-Ethiopian dispute over the Grand Renaissance […]

Egypt and Sudan in a Friday joint statement called on Ethiopia to respond to the […]

Eritrea, one of the world’s most repressive and secretive states, has played a major role […]

The 2018 peace between Eritrea and Ethiopia meant a breath of new life for Eritreans. […]

Skinny, hungry, fleeing threats of violence, thousands of people who have been hiding in rural […]

Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said on Thursday that it was essential to resolve the […]

Secretary of State Tony Blinken for the first time Wednesday used the term “ethnic cleansing” […]

On Saturday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi visited Khartoum for talks with the Sudanese PM and Abdel-Fattah […]

Addis Ababa may be a victim of its own history, even as it walks the […]

It was “like they were fetching water,” 40-year-old Tirhas recalls. Once a day, she says, […]

A senior Ethiopian diplomat posted to the country’s embassy in the United States resigned Wednesday, […]

Ethiopian troops and their allies in the restive northern province of Tigray face a growing […]

Ethiopian authorities have been urged to release detained journalists and media workers in the country. […]

Egypt hopes to resume talks soon with Ethiopia over the controversial mega-dam to reach an […]

With global attention focused on the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, another crisis is unfolding in […]

The Ethiopian government supplied weapons and ammunition to forces of Commander Joseph Tuka in Sudan’s […]

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s position on the imperative to reach a binding legal […]

 Eritrean armed forces massacred scores of civilians, including children as young as 13, in the historic […]

Civilians massacred. Journalists arrested. People starving to death. Ethiopia’s government is under growing pressure to allow the […]

The UN rights chief said Thursday that her office had corroborated grave violations that could […]

The UN rights chief said Thursday that her office had corroborated grave violations that could […]

Ethiopia is at war with itself—and the international community is struggling to respond. In nearly […]

An international conflict has long been brewing in East Africa, averted thus far only through […]

Four media workers recently arrested in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region have been released. Fitsum […]

South Sudan government has said that it is still studying – cautiously- the Nile Basin […]

The US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke Wednesday with Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary […]

The U.N. Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, […]