Military says ‘complex and coordinated attack’ in country’s south likely carried out by ISIL-affiliated group. […]

Mukhtar Robow, formerly a leader of the rebel group, has been appointed as a minister. […]

Chad’s military government has signed a peace deal with more than 40 opposition groups to […]

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in southeast London said that it would transfer a collection […]

From a makeshift camp below a road in the Afar region, Abdu Robso, a pastoralist […]

The co-founder and former spokesperson for al-Shabab have been under house arrest since 2018. Somalia’s […]

The northern region has been struggling to cope with food shortages and no access to […]

US President Joe Biden says ‘justice has been delivered after the al-Qaeda leader was located […]

Sudan has detected the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in the Darfur region. […]

Ethiopia’s athletics boss on Thursday urged the federal government to ease access to the war-torn […]

Sudanese security forces killed at least one person while violently dispersed anti-coup protesters Tuesday in […]

Witnesses say at least 11 people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up […]

Russia’s Foreign Minister on Wednesday criticized the reliance of the global economy on the US […]

President Macron continues with his visit to three African countries to improve relations with former […]

WHO declares the monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a ‘public health emergency of […]

At least one soldier was killed and six other people were wounded in the attack […]

Kenya’s transport regulator has ordered the bus operator to suspend operations pending an investigation into […]

Somalia’s parliament agreed on Monday to give Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre more time to […]

US Africa Command says the strike in the southern Lower Juba region was carried out […]

The move comes as a number of groups accuse the government of ‘harassment, intimidation, threats, […]

As cases are reported in Ghana, here’s a look at the disease, its symptoms, and […]

Ghana Health Service says it is working to reduce the risks of the virus spreading, […]

Israel left off the UN ‘blacklist’ intended to shame countries into implementing measures to protect […]

The Suez Canal on Monday announced a record profit of $7 billion (about 6.7 billion […]

Somalia announced Sunday that it has granted banking licenses to two foreign institutions, opening the […]

At least 27 people were killed over the weekend in Burkina Faso in two separate […]

Two tourists: an Austrian and a Romanian woman, have been killed by a shark near […]

Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gathered to assess efforts to […]

Demonstrators in Ghana’s capital have gathered for the second day of protests against spiraling inflation […]

The head of the AU Commission has called for “restraint, calm and dialogue” as the border […]

Ethiopian and Sudanese forces have clashed at the disputed al-Fashaga border area following the alleged […]

There have been bomb blasts in four separate places in Ethiopia’s northern city of Bahir […]

Ethiopia’s officials said Sudan’s armed forces fired during clashes in the disputed region of al-Fashaqa. […]

Sudan has recalled its envoy to Addis Ababa and summoned Ethiopia’s ambassador in protest at […]

The Ethiopian government says it has created a seven-member committee to hold peace talks with […]

General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, visited Al Fashaqa in the east […]

Sudan will summon back its ambassador to Ethiopia immediately for consultations following the killing of […]

riceless artifacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial period will be permanently […]

Sudan’s military has accused the Ethiopian army of executing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian […]

Survivors of deadly attacks in western Ethiopia say they are not getting sufficient support in […]

Prince Charles has expressed his “personal sorrow” at the suffering caused by slavery. At the […]

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern Tigray region, has denied claims […]

The European Union has pledged 600 million euros ($630m) to help vulnerable nations weather a […]

The head of Burkina Faso’s junta has met the president he overthrew in a coup […]

Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday relieved his Vice President Saulos Chilima of all delegated […]

The European Union has urged Ethiopia’s government to lift restrictions on fuel supplies to the […]

East African leaders agreed Monday to set up a regional force to try to end […]

A bloc of West African nations began deploying a stabilization force to Guinea-Bissau Monday after […]

More than 100 civilians have been killed in attacks by suspected armed rebels in central […]

Sudan’s wheat harvest is at risk of going to waste after the country’s cash-strapped government backed out […]

More than 100 people, mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, have been killed in an […]

Belgian authorities have handed over a tooth, the only known remains of the murdered Congolese […]

On a Goma factory floor, east of DRC, students are busy at their working stations. […]

One month after Mali said it would withdraw from the G5 Sahel alliance, the country’s […]

More than 30 percent of Sudan’s people are currently facing a food crisis because of […]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has closed its border with Rwanda after a […]

The Ethiopian leader says the committee will have 10 to 15 days to work on […]

Coca Cola has inaugurated its new ‘mega factory’ in Sebta City in Ethiopia. The $100 […]

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it is witnessing concerning signs of a growing […]

A Burkinabe soldier and a civilian were killed Thursday morning in an attack on a […]

Philippe is the first Belgian official to express regret for atrocities inflicted on the Congolese, […]

The UN General Assembly has elected Mozambique as a non-permanent member of the UN Security […]

Sudan’s former main ruling civilian coalition has begun informal talks with the military mediated by […]

Ethiopia stunned six-time African champions Egypt with a 2-0 win in 2023 Africa Cup of […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo DRC has welcomed Belgium’s King Philippe in what is a […]

Somalia’s newly-elected president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, used his inauguration speech on Thursday to appeal to […]

The current diplomatic spat seems to have been triggered by fighting between M23 and state […]

A former senior official of South Africa has an official complaint of “kidnapping” and “corruption” […]

Hundreds of Sudanese protesters rallied Wednesday in front of the United Nations mission in the […]

The asylum seekers are from a variety of African countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan […]

The risk of famine in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia keeps getting worse with the prospects […]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Armed assailants have killed about 50 people in a part of eastern […]

The largest referral hospital in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has suspended its regular operations due to […]

Eritrean forces shelled a town in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, according to internal United […]

What began as a “mundane dispute between two individuals… degenerated”, Defence Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim […]

A hospital fire that killed 11 newborn babies in Senegal may have been caused by an electrical […]

Nigeria has confirmed 21 cases of monkeypox since the start of the year with one […]

An emergency court in Egypt has sentenced a 2012 presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Aboul Foutouh, […]

Egypt has unveiled a major new archaeological find of 250 sarcophagi, 150 small bronze statues […]

The authorities have justified arrests of media personnel by accusing them of siding with rebels. […]

Health minister says blaze in neonatology department of Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in […]

This Sunday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made history as the first person to be elected president […]

Today, May 25, the continent celebrates Africa Day, which marks the anniversary of the signing […]

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was reappointed to a second five-year term on Tuesday by […]

Ethiopia says it is outraged with the way the US magazine, Time, depicted the country’s […]

The dead bodies of four out of eight missing miners have been found at a […]

The Tigray rebel forces fighting Ethiopia’s federal army have said they will release 4,000 prisoners […]

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 […]