Somalia’s new President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, is not new to the job. He served as […]

Michelle Bachelet calls on authorities to conduct independent investigations into the deadly religious violence. The […]

Laurent Bucyibaruta is the most senior figure yet to face justice in France over the […]

Nairobi, Kenya – Victor was the first to be shot. The bullet entered his stomach, exiting […]

Niamey has consistently presented an image of a friendly and reliable partner to the international […]

The incident occured outside the international stadium in the heart of the capital, during prayers. […]

The Ethiopian government on Thursday denied claims of the announcement of the withdrawal of the […]

A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum was broken up […]

Al-Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an African Union base in Somalia on […]

Ethiopia’s ancient civilizations are believed to date back more than 3,000 years. Many of the country’s most […]

(Nairobi) – Sudan’s security forces have unlawfully detained hundreds of protesters since December 2021 and forcibly disappeared […]

At least 72 people have been killed and 11 wounded in a series of intercommunal […]

Khartoum — Sudanese authorities released four members of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC)* from […]

Nairobi, Kenya — The U.S. government is giving an additional $200 million to support humanitarian […]

The African Union has endorsed the decision by East African Community leaders to deploy a regional […]

TPLF says rebels withdraw from the neighboring region but the Afar police commissioner says fighters […]

CAIRO — Sudan’s military deployed further troops to West Darfur province to help stop tribal […]

Addis Abeba – The National Security Council, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and comprised of […]

A brutal military crackdown has upended countless lives but has not broken the spirit of […]

After nearly 18 months of conflict between the federal government and Tigray rebels, the health […]

Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations […]

Addis Ababa — The East African military intelligence institutions have agreed to work together on […]

The United States welcomes the arrival today of a truck convoy carrying over 1,700 metric […]

Addis Abeba – Following the briefing and consultations on Yemen, Security Council members will discuss the […]

Three men from Eritrea aged 24, 23 and 22, residing at the Birzebbugia open centre […]

When Sudan’s military ousted the country’s civilian government in October it quickly set its sights […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he “cannot tolerate any indecisiveness” ahead of the West […]

The Sudanese village of Um Rakuba, home to over 20,000 refugees, in August 2021. After […]

Violence by the group, which aims to topple the UN-backed central government and impose its […]

Aid convoys led by the U.N.’s World Food Program (WPF) have entered Ethiopian territory controlled […]

Ethiopia’s federal government recently declared an immediate humanitarian truce in the war that has been […]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Millions more Sudanese are set to go hungry this year as economic […]

In a major breakthrough, the president and his deputy sealed an agreement to unify the […]

Arusha. A new classification criteria for hotels and restaurants in East Africa is under review. The […]

Addis Abeba – A total of 498 – 157 children and 341 women – were flown […]

UNITED NATIONS, March 31 (Reuters) – Ethiopia failed at the United Nations on Thursday in […]

Seventeen months into a brutal civil war, the Ethiopian government announced on Friday that it […]

Hundreds of Ethiopian troops converged on a town near the border of the northern Tigray […]

The long-serving CEO of Africa’s largest airline Ethiopia Airlines has stepped down, citing ill health. […]

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday blaming Russia for […]

The European Union delegation in Tanzania has called for Africa’s support in what they have […]

Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum on Thursday to protest against last […]

At the team time trial held today, the Eritrean National Team won four Gold Medals […]

Residents from El Fasher told Radio Dabanga, that demonstrators marched from the city’s schools towards […]

Minister Mines and Petroleum Takele Uma signed the agreement with the US company. US Ambassador […]

Ethiopian authorities have detained several senior officials from Tigray, including members of the government’s last […]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday called on Ethiopian protagonists to embrace “genuine” reconciliation and […]

Israel’s High Court of Justice decided on Tuesday to remove an interim order which had […]

hartoum / Wad Madani — Angry demonstrators took to the streets of the Sudanese capital […]

Israeli authorities have banned Ethiopian Christian pilgrims groups from visiting the country for the upcoming […]

Thousands of male and female demonstrators were back in the streets of Khartoum on Tuesday. […]

Nairobi — Aid groups say Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are facing increased attacks and growing […]

Ethiopian authorities have pledged to prosecute individuals who apparently set a man alight – an […]

Somalia’s parliamentary elections are still dragging on, a few days to the deadline of March […]

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet is urging the Ethiopian government, Tigrayan […]

For 16 months, in an often hidden and ignored armed conflict in northern Ethiopia, warring […]

The government of the Tigray region in Ethiopia says it will approach the United Nations […]

The commission has received a grant for 23.5 million birrs (about $470,000) from the German […]

African countries are treading carefully in the Russia-Ukraine war to protect their national interests even […]

Seventeen African countries on Wednesday abstained from voting as the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted […]

Addis Abeba — Medical professionals who spoke with Deutsche Welle (DW) reporter in Mekelle, the capital […]

Sudan is under pressure from the European Union and the West to publicly condemn Russia’s […]

In a territorial expansion of the violent conflict between the regional Tigrayan government and the […]

Moalimu who survived a suicide bombing on January 16 this year, won the seat number […]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainians and foreigners alike have been fleeing […]

Four entrepreneurs share their stories of how they are leading innovative businesses that are striving […]

WASHINGTON —  Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group has an annual budget of $24 million to spend […]

Most humanitarian aid has ground to a halt in Tigray because of the Ethiopian government’s […]

February 19, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities on Saturday arrested Taha Osman a member of […]

February 17, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The Deputy Head of the Sovereign Council, Commander of the […]

Fighting in northern Ethiopia’s Afar region “engulfed” a camp housing refugees from neighboring Eritrea, the […]

Tigray is under what the United Nations calls a de facto blockade that is preventing […]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has invited Russia to more talks on the Ukraine crisis as […]

The suspected gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue was known to […]

Prosecutors have filed additional charges against Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu as his trial on […]

Libya’s election commission has called for the country’s first presidential poll, due to take place […]

A government minister in Madagascar has said he swam for 12 hours to safety after […]

Wearing their traditional Maasai dress and surrounded by cows, Tanzania’s newest TikTok sensations, siblings Kili […]

A government minister in Madagascar has said he swam for 12 hours to safety after […]

A female soldier has been arrested in Nigeria for accepting a marriage proposal while on […]

An Egyptian court has sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison […]

In our series of letters from African writers, Algerian-Canadian journalist Maher Mezahi considers what it […]

People across Sudan have joined mass protests over the military’s takeover, as they mark the […]

This week the European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organisation […]

The government in Ivory Coast has resumed talks with opposition parties in a bid to […]

A court in Paris has found a French-Rwandan man, Claude Muhayimana, guilty of complicity in […]

The latest Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared over. Health […]

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session on Ethiopia, amid reports […]

Simon Odo, popularly known as “King of Satan”, has died at the age of 74, […]

Kenya has recorded cases of the new Omicron variant among travellers, the health minister said. […]

The Gambia’s opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) has filed a petition at the country’s supreme […]

A South African court has ruled that the country’s former President Jacob Zuma should be […]

Mozambican President Filipe Myusi, has urged people to comply with measures to control the spread […]

The UN has said access to flooded areas in South Sudan has become a challenge […]

Zimbabwe has tightened restrictions in the country for another two weeks amid rising coronavirus cases. […]

Rwanda has confirmed six cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. It said the cases were […]

Sudan’s armed forces have deployed more troops along the disputed border with Ethiopia, announcing that […]

French military forces have left Timbuktu, nine years after they helped Malian troops recapture the […]

A group of Russian scientists have arrived in South Africa to study the new coronavirus […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is investigating the deaths of nearly 100 people […]

Ethiopia has rejected a plan by the UN’s top human rights body to hold a […]

A university in Nigeria has confirmed an incident where a final year student was attacked […]

Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has tweeted photos of police […]

Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced that parliament will remain suspended until fresh elections are […]

The Mozambique branch of the French oil and gas company, Total Energies, has returned to […]

Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, has finished second runner-up in the Miss Universe contest held […]

The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has expressed ‘’strong concerns’’ over delays in Mali’s transition […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being treated for […]

The Ghanaian government has said that from midnight on Sunday all visitors to the country […]

The seventh batch of 176 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya have arrived in Rwanda, the […]

Dozens of inmates from Boma prison in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

Gunmen in Nigeria’s Niger state have shot dead at least 16 worshippers in a mosque. […]

Burkina Faso and Niger have issued a joint statement saying their combined armies have killed […]

The military court in Uganda has convicted two soldiers for the killing of three people […]

US President Joe Biden has nominated Meg Whitman as the ambassador to Kenya. The businesswoman […]

The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, Minusma, has condemned the killing of […]

At least a dozen people were killed and scores wounded in the second day of […]

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe […]

The World Food Programme has suspended food aid distribution in Ethiopia’s Dessie and Kombolcha towns […]

The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has described as inhumane the responses […]

Two students in Nigeria were crushed to death while 12 others sustained varying injuries in […]

South Africa’s parliament has failed to secure the two-thirds majority it needed to amend the […]

The Somali electoral commission has nullified the election results for two parliamentary seats in the […]

Many prisoners are feared dead after a fire broke out in the main prison in […]

A Kenyan police officer shot dead his wife and five other people before turning the […]

The United States has imposed sanctions on a Democratic Republic of Congo national and 12 […]

A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges of inciting violent anti-government protests levelled against journalist and […]

The runner-up in The Gambia’s presidential election, Ousainou Darboe, has said he plans to challenge […]

A presidential aspirant in Kenya has promised loans of between $4,400 (£3,300) and $8,800 to […]

A rights group in Nigeria has asked the court for “an order of perpetual injunction” […]

Hundreds of people have taken part in protests on beaches in South Africa against planned […]

The trial of suspected organisers of a failed coup in Madagascar is set to begin […]

At least 12 soldiers in Niger have been killed by gunmen in a clash in […]

Nigeria has become the latest country to be added to Britain’s travel red list – […]

A South African court has dismissed an urgent application to halt a seismic survey by […]

A Kenyan father has sued his adult son demanding 20% of his salary to go […]

Ethiopia’s education ministry has announced a temporary closure of all secondary schools to allow students […]

The governor of South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been dismissed […]

Chad junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has moved up to a higher rank in […]

Sudan’s military leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has called for the United Nations to support […]

Zimbabwe has confirmed the presence of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country. Speaking on […]

A group of Rwandan activists have demanded the cancellation of Congolese musician Koffi Olomidé’s concert […]

South Sudan’s government has promised to end child marriage by 2030 in line with the […]

Cameroonian opposition leader Maurice Kamto was on Wednesday detained at a hotel in the country’s […]

The Chinese embassy has urged its citizens to evacuate three provinces in the east of […]

South Africa has recorded a sharp increase in coronavirus infections which have doubled across the […]

A new study has found that Madagascar’s current food crisis has been caused mainly by […]

The African Union and United Nations have jointly criticised travel restrictions put on several Southern […]

Calls for a peace walk by Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu aimed at healing the city […]

Burkina Faso has given details of a major regional security operation launched with Ghana, Ivory […]

Nigeria’s Lagos state government has released a “white paper” on a report by a judicial […]

A boat carrying more than 50 people has capsized in the northern Nigerian state of […]

Zimbabwe has reimposed a lockdown and mandatory quarantines for all travellers amidst rising Covid cases […]

The Chinese foreign minister has arrived in Addis Ababa for an official visit to Ethiopia […]

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says he is “deeply concerned” by travel bans on southern […]

Sudanese activists have called for more protests across the country on Tuesday to denounce the […]

The mother of a Ugandan legislator has stormed parliament over the detention and ill health […]

China’s President Xi Jinping has promised to send to Africa some one billion Covid vaccine […]

Guinea’s ruling military junta says deposed president Alpha Condé has been transferred to his wife’s […]

Rwanda’s health ministry has announced that it will start giving third doses to the elderly […]

Seven people have died and dozens more are in hospital after eating poisonous turtle meat […]

Uganda’s national carrier has banned the sale of a local grasshopper delicacy onboard a flight […]

Zambia will from Tuesday start restricting people who have not been vaccinated against Covid from […]

The Ethiopian army chief has denied accusations that government forces killed Sudanese soldiers at the […]

At least 22 people have been killed in an attack in a camp for displaced […]

The government in Rwanda has announced new measures that include the suspension of flights to […]

The head of the agency leading Africa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says imposing restrictions […]

Burkina Faso President Roch Kaboré has promised military and cabinet changes in the coming days, […]

Kenya is offering senior citizens aged 75 and above free entry to the national park […]

Morocco will from Friday midnight suspend flights to and from France because of rising coronavirus […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) is due to hold a special meeting on Friday to […]

A Kenyan university is under fire over a poster linking rape to indecent dressing. The […]

Britain is halting all flights from South Africa and five other countries in the region […]

Zimbabwe’s finance minister will present a national budget almost double that of the previous year […]

The Gambia’s final report of a probe into alleged human rights violations during the 22-year […]

The news agencies have been filing some pictures of the aftermath of this morning’s huge […]

Ethiopia has expelled four Irish diplomats because of Ireland’s stance on the ongoing conflict in […]

Police in Somalia have confirmed the death of eight civilians in a car bombing in […]

There’s been a big explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Local news reports say a […]

The government in Burkina Faso has extended the suspension of mobile internet services. Services were […]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to the fighting in […]

The United Nations has declared 7 July each year as the world’s official day to […]

Media and journalism professional bodies in Burkina Faso have issued a joint statement condemning the […]

Sudan has launched investigations into violations against protesters since the 25 October military coup, reinstated […]

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has declared a state of emergency in the wake […]

Ethiopian Olympic legend Haile Gebrselassie has announced plans to go to the battle front, just […]

A South African rights commission has raised concerns over social media messages linking foreign nationals […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he was setting off, in person, to march on […]

The health authorities in Kenya have urged people to use other alternatives as the country […]

Covid cases in South Africa are on the rise ahead of a predicted fourth wave. […]

The United States says it’s encouraged by Sunday’s deal reinstating the Sudanese prime minister, Abdalla […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he will now lead his troops “from the battle […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked South African men to play a greater role in preventing […]

A team investigating the disappearance and subsequent death of a female Somali spy agent, Ikran […]

Nigerian artist Wizkid carried the day in Africa music awards on Sunday night. He bagged […]

One of Egypt’s most celebrated actresses Soheir El-Bably has died at the age of 86. […]

France asked the president of Burkina Faso to intervene after a French military convoy was […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he is “encouraged” by the deal to […]

Kenyans who haven’t been vaccinated against Covid will not be able to receive government services […]

Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Nigerian authorities to take measures […]

South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider, Eskom, says it’s found clear evidence of sabotage at one […]

Special envoys from the African Union and the US have returned to Ethiopia in a […]

Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye has dismissed Commerce Minister Capitoline Niyonizigiye. She has been accused of […]

The UN says six of its staff have been released in Ethiopia, leaving five in […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential palace […]

Sudanese authorities have restored the internet nearly a month since it was suspended after the […]

The US has ended sanctions imposed against Burundi six years ago, citing reforms in the […]

Thousands of Nigerian railway workers have begun a three-day strike to push the government to […]

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a new refugee bill that allows asylum […]

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has admitted to problems that “must be corrected […]

Kenyans online have welcomed the signing of a new law that prevents secret lovers from […]

Gunmen in the north-western Nigerian state of Sokoto have killed at least 21 people in […]

Doctors in Sudan say 14 people have been shot dead by security forces as thousands […]

The US has removed Nigeria from the list of religious violators, ahead of the visit […]

Hundreds of protesters held demonstrations in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday demanding the resignation […]

The so-called Islamic State group (IS) has said it was behind the blasts in Uganda’s […]

South Africa has declared four days of national mourning following the death on Thursday of […]

The US State Department has warned American citizens in Ethiopia that it will not be […]

At least four people, among them two police officers, have been killed in two separate […]

The Kenya government says security agencies are on high alert following the escape of three […]

Police in Uganda are using sniffer dogs to look for more evidence and detect any […]

Two blasts have gone off in the central business district of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Reports […]

The Ethiopian government has released about half of the UN’s contracted aid drivers arrested last […]

Sudanese security officials have released an Al Jazeera TV network’s bureau chief who was arrested […]

The authorities in Kenya have placed a bounty on three “armed and dangerous” inmates who […]

Motorbike-riding gunmen have shot dead at least 15 civilians and injured many others in the […]

A student at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria has been detained by the police […]

A Kenyan court is expected to give its verdict on whether four police officers are […]

Archaeologists in Egypt say they’ve made one of the most important discoveries in decades. They […]

The government in South Africa has withdrawn support for Miss South Africa in the Miss […]

At least 20 people have been killed in a militant attack in Burkina Faso’s northern […]

Police in Nigeria say they’re investigating a rare incident that led to two cousins allegedly […]

It appears that internet services in Sudan have not been restored, several hours after a […]

Mali’s interim parliament vice-president has been freed, weeks after he was arrested for public order […]

Mauritius has closed all schools as the number of Covid cases continue to rise. Education […]

The trial of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu resumes on Wednesday in Abuja. The charges […]

A new report by the Human Rights Watch has accused the Ethiopian government of blocking […]

Amnesty International has demanded compensation for the Benet people of Uganda who were evicted from […]

Two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been arrested in the US for […]

The government of South Sudan says more than one million people have been affected by […]

The UN has warned that Ethiopia is at a risk of descending into a widening […]

Reports from Nigeria’s Niger state say at least 18 people were killed on Monday after […]

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has formed a “crisis cell” to resolve what he has […]

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is concerned about reports on the use of […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the families of victims killed in an attack […]

Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned […]

An organisation supporting Somalis living in the UK says its members have been receiving death […]

The Liberian teenage motorcycle taxi driver who found and returned money to a prominent businesswoman […]

South Africa’s elite task force rescued two cabinet ministers and a deputy, after they were […]

The Ugandan government agency in charge of distributing Covid-19 vaccines to government health facilities has […]

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked the state oil corporation boss Bol Ring Mourwel. […]

The US has pledged an additional 17 million coronavirus vaccines to the African continent, which […]

A french soldier has died in an accident during a maintenance operation in Mali. French […]

The court in Botswana has postponed the ruling for a case seeking the overturning of […]

The influential younger brother of the late Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has been sent to […]

A dawn raid at a prison in Empangeni city in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province […]

The Ethiopian army and allied forces have launched a second day of ground attacks as […]

Kenya is set to disregard the judgement of The International Court of Justice on the […]

Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia say federal troops and their allies have launched coordinated attacks […]

The government in Nigeria’s north-central Kwara state says it has suspended the head of an […]

About 120 school pupils have been hospitalised in South Sudan after a deworming exercise by […]

A popular musician in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Delcato Idengo, has been arrested by […]

The head of the European Union in Liberia has apologised for saying that Liberia’s capital […]

Prosecutors in Egypt have ordered the arrest of three people following the dumping of thousands […]

The Algerian president says he demands “total respect” from France, in the latest escalation of […]

Ethiopian Airlines’ Facebook page has been hacked and a bogus message from the chief executive […]

Guniea’s new Prime Minister Mohamed Beavogui has called for unity to ensure a smooth transition […]

More than 60 people, mostly children, are reported missing after the vessel they were travelling […]

Graça Machel, the activist, campaigner and widow of Nelson Mandela, has urged South Africans to […]

The Nato alliance is studying options to offer support to troops fighting against militant jihadists […]

Police in north-west Nigeria say they have rescued 187 villagers abducted from their homes by […]

A gorilla photographed in 2019 posing for a relaxed selfie with rangers at an orphanage […]

Burkina Faso’s President Roch March Christian Kabore on Wednesday reshuffled the country’s military leadership amid […]

Events are being held in South Africa to mark the 90th birthday of the Nobel […]

The UN Security Council has been told that increasingly alarming accounts of hunger-related deaths are […]

Guinea’s military leader has named former civil servant Mohamed Beavogui as prime minister to oversee […]

Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso could take legal action after he was named in the leaked […]

The southern Africa regional bloc, SADC, has agreed to extend the presence of regional troops […]

Mali in West Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. It’s also […]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned the deportation of […]

International medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has condemned the killing of one of its […]

Mali’s foreign ministry summoned France’s ambassador on Tuesday to protest against comments by French President […]

Seven UN officials who had until Sunday to leave Ethiopia have left “for their safety”, […]

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has announced the start of an […]

Kenyan newspapers have given subdued coverage to what came out of the Pandora Papers which revealed how the […]

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he hopes the diplomatic tension with Algeria will ease […]