The director-general of the World Health Organization said on Monday that Uganda should reconsider its decision to close its border with Democratic Republic of Congo
June 08, 2026
Protests over a US Ebola facility in Kenya highlight Africa’s growing resistance to Trump-era deals
June 08, 2026
Authorities have raced to slow the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo with strict measures, including by limiting public gatherings and enforcing social distancing
June 08, 2026
Pope Leo calls war a ‘painful defeat’ of negotiations as Israel and Iran trade worst strikes in months
June 08, 2026
South Africa will crack down on groups behind xenophobic violence, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday, as anti-immigrant protests tarnish the country's reputation.
June 07, 2026
The Nigerian army said Sunday it freed 360 people abducted by Boko Haram in southern Borno, in the northeastern part of the country
June 07, 2026
Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread
June 06, 2026
The United Nations said on Friday it is deeply concerned by violent protests outside its offices in Libya this week and blamed social media for fueling disinformation about the
June 06, 2026
Political parties backing Guinea's coup-leader-turned-President Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the bauxite-rich West African country's legislative elections, the
June 06, 2026
At least 1,094 Nigerians have registered interest in voluntary return from South Africa following xenophobic attacks, up from
June 05, 2026
Somali security forces have restored order in two districts of the capital, the information ministry said on Friday, a day after government troops and militias allied
June 05, 2026
Advocacy groups representing deportees sent by the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea filed a complaint on Friday with the main human rights body of the African Union, an attempt to
June 05, 2026
At least 49 people have died of thirst after a truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger
June 05, 2026
Rights lawyers have filed a case against Equatorial Guinea before Africa’s top human rights body
June 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will visit two flashpoints of migration from Africa to Europe over less than a month starting on June 11
June 05, 2026
Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled
June 04, 2026
Somalia's opposition supporters and security forces have clashed in Mogadishu for a second day ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration
June 04, 2026
Residents attacked an Ebola burial team in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province this week, forcing responders to abandon a coffin and raising fears
June 04, 2026
South Africa will send envoys to other African countries and around the world after a spate of xenophobic attacks targeting immigrants from other nations on the
June 04, 2026
Four days ago, Mozambican immigrant Lado Amido answered a knock at his door in the South African town of Kleinmond.
June 04, 2026
Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, damaging
June 04, 2026
Portugal and Austria have defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided U.N. Security Council in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning
June 03, 2026
A Nigerian court has sentenced four men to death by hanging after convicting them over a 2022 attack on a Catholic church in Owo, in southwestern Ondo state,
June 03, 2026
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on commanders of armed groups it accused of driving the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting
June 03, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial in Paris to honour the victims of the 1994 genocide against the
June 03, 2026
A Kenyan court blocked on Tuesday for another three weeks a proposed U.S.
June 02, 2026
Mozambique said five of its citizens died in anti-immigration violence in the South African town of Mossel Bay over the weekend in the latest flare-up of
June 02, 2026
Volunteers for the U.N. food agency are providing crucial support In the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo by cooking
June 02, 2026
Uganda has confirmed six more new cases of Ebola, bringing the total confirmed in the country so far to 15, the health
June 02, 2026
The World Health Organization said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak and 116
June 02, 2026
Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility
June 02, 2026
For SJ Du Venage, a provincial council member for a right-wing party in South Africa's governing coalition, the decision to leave his
June 02, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday concluded his visit to Democratic Republic of Congo by briefing the president on the response to the
June 01, 2026
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki on Monday to protest moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a
June 01, 2026
Ethiopians voted Monday in an election marked by insecurity, with the ruling Prosperity Party expected to secure a majority
June 01, 2026
Nigerian politician Peter Obi said he would run for president again in January after winning his party's nomination, setting up another contest between incumbent Bola Tinubu
June 01, 2026
Voting took place in Ethiopia on Monday in parliamentary and regional elections expected to hand Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's ruling Prosperity Party an easy victory,
June 01, 2026
Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of pounds over the cancelled deal to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation, the
June 01, 2026
An international arbitration panel has rejected Rwanda's multimillion-dollar claim linked to a controversial refugee resettlement deal
June 01, 2026
Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base
June 01, 2026
Dubai looks back to normal. Beneath the surface it’s a different story
June 01, 2026
The World Health Organisation chief travelled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit by an Ebola outbreak, urging residents to seek
May 30, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly
May 30, 2026
Ghana’s parliament on Friday approved a new bill that criminalizes the so-called promotion of LGBTQ activity, part of a broader crackdown on sexual minorities in West Africa.
May 29, 2026
The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an Ebola outbreak
May 29, 2026
A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo
May 29, 2026
Authorities in Kenya say eight female students have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others
May 29, 2026
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Friday his economic reforms stabilised the country and revived investor confidence, despite a steep cost-of-
May 29, 2026
The World Health Organization said on Friday that there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected
May 29, 2026
Kenyan authorities have arrested eight students on suspicion of arson over a fire at a girls' boarding school that killed 16 students, police said on
May 29, 2026
A Sudanese medical group says attacks in central Sudan have killed 27 people, including elderly individuals
May 29, 2026
A Kenyan court has ordered the temporary suspension of a plan for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country after a lawsuit
May 29, 2026
A fire has devastated a girls' boarding school in central Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring many more
May 28, 2026
Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups
May 28, 2026
From Antwerp to the Seychelles, Baton Rouge to Melbourne, or New York to Namibia, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has upended
May 28, 2026
Kenya has provided written approval for the U.S. to open a quarantine facility in the East African nation for Americans exposed to the Ebola outbreak centred in the
May 28, 2026
Kenya has approved a request from the U.S. to open a quarantine facility in the East African nation for Americans exposed to Ebola, U.S. officials told Reuters on
May 28, 2026
South Africa's parliament has scheduled for Monday the first meeting of an impeachment committee that will probe allegations
May 28, 2026
A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh - nicknamed "Donald Trump" for its distinctive blond tuft - has been spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice after a last-minute government
May 27, 2026
A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' secondary school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing at least 16
May 28, 2026
Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States
May 28, 2026
Almost 300 Ghanaian nationals returned home on Wednesday after waves of anti-immigrant protests in South Africa heightened safety concerns.
May 27, 2026
They could do nothing but watch as paramilitary fighters shot and killed their loved ones. They were held captive and endured beatings.
May 27, 2026
Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo with immediate effect to try to limit the spread of Ebola, Uganda's government said on Wednesday
May 27, 2026
South Africa's government and Afrikaner advocacy groups reject the notion of a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in the country
May 27, 2026
Muslims in Mali's capital, Bamako, face challenges celebrating Eid al-Adha due to a blockade by armed groups linked to al-Qaida
May 27, 2026
An Australian government inquiry has heard that a state police force has worked to form a heavily armed rapid response team since the Bondi Beach shooting
May 27, 2026
There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo
May 27, 2026
President Trump has announced that the U.S. is admitting 10,000 additional white South Africans as refugees, citing persecution in their home country
May 26, 2026
Argentine authorities have seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in a major wildlife trafficking bust at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport
May 26, 2026
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye's dismissal of a government headed by a firebrand critic of the International Monetary Fund gives fresh
May 26, 2026
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sought to clear his name over a scandal in which bundles of cash were stolen from a
May 26, 2026
Human Rights Watch reports that the United Arab Emirates trained Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside a paramilitary group in Sudan's war
May 26, 2026
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a seasoned economist as prime minister on Monday, three days after dismissing
May 26, 2026
Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will
May 25, 2026
Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven
May 25, 2026
Angry residents in eastern Congo have attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center treating Ebola patients
May 23, 2026
A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives
May 25, 2026
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will seek a second and final four-year term in January after overwhelmingly defeating a little-known challenger in ruling party primaries,
May 24, 2026
Benin's new president, Romuald Wadagni, vowed at his inauguration on Sunday to confront rising security threats and to ensure economic growth translated into concrete
May 24, 2026
Uganda has confirmed three new cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of infections in the current outbreak there to five, the health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities
May 23, 2026
Bundibugyo is the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a species of Ebola
May 23, 2026
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government, a move that risks
May 23, 2026
It would be a mistake to underestimate the risk posed by the Ebola outbreak, the WHO regional director for Africa said on Friday, warning that just one case
May 22, 2026
Volunteers are going door-to-door to combat misinformation about Ebola in the area at the centre of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
May 22, 2026
The United States has sanctioned Tanzania’s police chief and barred him from entering the U.S., citing alleged human rights violations committed by the police force
May 22, 2026
After seven years living as an undocumented migrant in Spain, doing day jobs and staying in shanty towns, Moroccan Abdelmoujoud Erra
May 22, 2026
People have set fire to an Ebola treatment center in one of the towns at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo as fear and anger grows over a health crisis authorities and aid agencies are struggling to contain
May 21, 2026
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, hundreds of kilometres from the
May 21, 2026
Healthcare workers in eastern Congo say they are underprotected and undertrained as a rare Ebola virus spreads rapidly in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places
May 20, 2026
A Kenyan court ruled on Wednesday that sections of a law targeting sexual offences in the East African nation cannot apply to
May 20, 2026
Arsenal fans in Botswana were briefly excited by the apparent announcement of a public holiday to celebrate their team's first Premier League title win in 22 years
May 20, 2026
Moroccan and French foreign ministers said on Wednesday the two countries are preparing to sign a treaty to strengthen ties during an upcoming state visit
May 20, 2026
A U.S. doctor will be transferred from Uganda to a hospital in Prague on Wednesday after he came into contact with a patient infected with Ebola, Czech health officials said
May 20, 2026
Loud and expressive mourners are common at funerals around the world — but in parts of Kenya, some of them may be paid workers
May 19, 2026
The Trump administration plans to admit up to 10,000 more white South African refugees into the United States, citing discrimination against Afrikaners
May 19, 2026
Trump administration proposes admitting more White South African refugees
May 19, 2026
Congo will open three treatment centers for the Ebola virus in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak that has killed nearly 120 people
May 18, 2026
With more than 100 deaths authorities suspect were linked to Ebola, a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the epicentre of a deadly outbreak. The World Health organisation has declared the new outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
May 18, 2026
At least 80 people have died in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province
May 16, 2026
A U.N. court says that a Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague
May 17, 2026
US and Nigerian forces kill senior ISIS commander, Trump says
May 16, 2026
President Donald Trump says U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out a mission to kill a leader of the Islamic State group
May 16, 2026
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday removed Sisisi Tolashe from the position of minister of social development.
May 14, 2026
Some 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40% of the population, are facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the
May 14, 2026
Areas of southern Somalia are at risk of famine, two global food security monitors said on Thursday, with one district reaching a level of hunger not seen in
May 14, 2026
Italy's defence minister said on Thursday he had written twice to the Treasury urging a decision on whether to tap a European Union arms-
May 14, 2026
A global hunger monitoring group reported that over 40% of Sudan's population faces acute food insecurity through May
May 14, 2026
M23 rebels and the Rwandan army carried out killings, rapes and abductions during a month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2025 and
May 14, 2026
The U.S. military says the remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered
May 14, 2026
A top official in South Africa's African National Congress party threw his weight behind President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday over the "Farmgate"
May 13, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has concluded his Africa visit with talks in Ethiopia
May 14, 2026
A Nigerian court on Wednesday sentenced former power minister Saleh Mamman to 75 years in prison after convicting him of laundering 33.8 billion naira ($24.71 million), the
May 13, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron jogged with Kenyan marathon star Eliud Kipchoge, spoke with local university students and announced $27 billion in new
May 13, 2026
Ghana will evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa following a wave of xenophobic attacks targeting migrants from other sub-Saharan African countries, a post by the foreign
May 13, 2026
The country where you don’t wear a rolex — you eat it
May 13, 2026
Nigeria's military has denied a rights group's claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend
May 12, 2026
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces impeachment proceedings over a scandal dubbed "Farmgate" in which thieves
May 12, 2026
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in on Tuesday for a seventh term, extending his rule in the east African country into a fifth decade.
May 12, 2026
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power for 40 years
May 12, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new investments in Africa at a summit held in Kenya
May 12, 2026
At least 100 civilians were killed in a Nigerian military airstrike on a crowded market in northwest Zamfara state, Amnesty International said on
May 12, 2026
The Rwandan-backed AFC/M23 rebel group has withdrawn from several key positions in Congo's eastern South Kivu province over the weekend, the Congolese army and a rebel official said
May 12, 2026
The United Nations human rights chief warned on Monday that widening and intensifying violence in Sudan, as well as the rising use of drones, could
May 11, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has kicked off a visit to Kenya ahead of a two-day Africa Forward Summit
May 11, 2026
The remains of a U.S. soldier missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered in the Atlantic Ocean
May 11, 2026
A Microsoft data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company’s request for guaranteed payments, Bloomberg News reported
May 10, 2026
Rebels jeered Putin’s troops out of a key African town. Now his regional grip is slipping away
May 10, 2026
Use of electric vehicles in Africa is surging, led by Ethiopia, as soaring prices and fuel shortages compel countries to opt for cleaner and cheaper transport
May 09, 2026
South Africa's highest court on Friday revived impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over
May 08, 2026
An Islamic State-affiliated group has attacked villages in Congo near the Uganda border, killing at least 40 people
May 08, 2026
Shorn of influence in its former colonies in West Africa, France will seek to deepen ties elsewhere on the continent next week at an Africa summit in the
May 08, 2026
Nigeria's army says that seven children and two women abducted last month in Nigeria have been rescued by troops
May 07, 2026
In Tshopo, a northeastern Congolese province blanketed in rainforest, rumours rippled
May 07, 2026
African countries including Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho and Zimbabwe have warned migrants in South Africa to be cautious and remain indoors due to
May 07, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said he was open to standing for a third term, angering opposition politicians who accused him of
May 07, 2026
Kenya's political word of the moment is “goonism," used to describe gang-related political violence
May 07, 2026
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed the country's
May 07, 2026
A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch
May 07, 2026
The U.N. health agency says two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak
May 06, 2026
France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal into the Red Sea
May 06, 2026
Uganda's parliament passed legislation to curb alleged foreign influence after scaling back proposed restrictions on funding from abroad that the central bank governor said
May 06, 2026
The United Arab Emirates denied allegations by Sudan that an Emirati drone had been used in an attack on Khartoum airport on Monday launched from Ethiopia, according to a
May 06, 2026
China said on Wednesday Eswatini's leaders were being "kept and fed" by Taiwan, using unusually strong language to condemn the small southern African kingdom for
May 06, 2026
The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the El-Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia has seen a modest return of international visitors
May 06, 2026
Seven passengers on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, including three who have died, are either confirmed or suspected to have hantavirus, according to the World
May 05, 2026
By Melory Ghazi, Lauren Bacquie and Noemie Olive PARIS, May 5 - The husband of Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi described the family's fears on Tuesday after her
May 05, 2026
Tigray's main political party reasserted control over the northern Ethiopian region's political administration on Tuesday, following through on a threat to violate a key provision of
May 05, 2026
The Nigerian opposition's hopes of mounting a strong challenge to President Bola Tinubu at elections next January have been shaken after two leading
May 05, 2026
Sudan's armed forces have accused Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates of being involved in a drone attack on Khartoum airport, part of a barrage that has shattered months of
May 04, 2026
The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goita, has taken over as defence minister after the military officer who previously filled the role was killed in coordinated
May 04, 2026
At least 130 Nigerian citizens in South Africa have asked to be flown home following protests targeting foreigners, Nigerian Foreign Minister Bianca Odumegwu-
May 04, 2026
Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa have showcased their talent at the African Dance Biennial in Senegal
May 04, 2026
A gauge of South African manufacturing sentiment improved in April as output and new sales orders rebounded after a weak first quarter, a purchasing managers' index (
May 04, 2026
South Africa's health ministry said on Monday that two passengers have died and a British national was in critical condition after a Netherlands-based cruise ship was
May 04, 2026
A former minister and prominent Malian lawyer was abducted by armed, hooded men in Bamako, according to a family member
May 04, 2026
Two U.S. service members are missing in southwestern Morocco after participating in military exercises, according to the United States Africa Command
May 03, 2026
The U.S.-based organizers of an international human rights conference say they have canceled next week's summit in the African nation of Zambia after pressure from China to exclude activists from Taiwan
May 02, 2026
Malian authorities are investigating soldiers suspected of involvement in last week's coordinated attacks on army bases across the country by militants linked to al Qaeda and
May 02, 2026
Cellphone tower operators across Africa are increasingly turning to solar power to reduce reliance on costly diesel fuel and expand connectivity in off-grid areas
May 02, 2026
A state public prosecutor alleges that some Malian military officers have been working with jihadis and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade
May 02, 2026
Al Qaeda-linked insurgents have called on Malians to rise up against the military-led government and transition to Sharia law, as multiple
May 01, 2026
A China policy giving Africa’s biggest economies tariff-free access to its market for the next two years has come into effect
May 01, 2026
Simultaneous attacks in Mali by militants linked to al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels on April 25 showed how fighters
May 01, 2026
Man charged with attempted murder after two Jewish men stabbed in London
May 01, 2026
A growing rift among top Lebanese officials has thrown a wrench into Saudi efforts to help Lebanon's leaders
April 30, 2026
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila
April 30, 2026
A Ugandan court sentenced a man to death on Thursday for killing four young children this month at a nursery school, in an attack that sparked public outrage and concern
April 30, 2026
Mali's former defense minister Gen. Sadio Camara, who played a key role in the country's shift toward Russia, was buried in a ceremony broadcast on state television
April 30, 2026
South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on November 4, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
April 30, 2026
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian forces would stay in Mali to help the military-led government battle insurgents as West Africa's al Qaeda affiliate
April 30, 2026
Imprisoned Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has suffered a sharp deterioration in his health and has been urgently transferred from prison to hospital, his Ennahda
April 30, 2026
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir fired his foreign and trade ministers and senior security officials, a decree on Wednesday said, the latest in a series of government
April 30, 2026
At least 17 migrants died and nine are missing after their boat broke down and drifted for eight days in the Mediterranean Sea, Libya's Red Crescent and Libyan security
April 30, 2026
Malian forces are back in control of a town on the Niger border that Islamic State-linked insurgents entered this week, residents said on Wednesday, as they pushed to
April 29, 2026
A South African court on Wednesday ordered the youngest son of Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe to pay a large fine and said he would be deported for
April 29, 2026
A series of reversals suffered by Mali's Moscow-backed military government has dented Russia's image as a self-styled security
April 29, 2026
Fewer patients are visiting some HIV treatment centres in Senegal amid a wave of arrests targeting LGBTQ people, according to health
April 29, 2026
Kenya's economy grew 4.6% last year, little changed from 2024's 4.7% growth and below a finance ministry estimate, official data showed on Wednesday.
April 29, 2026
Kenya's economy grew 4.6% in 2025, compared with 4.7% growth a year earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday.
April 29, 2026
The leader of Mali's military government, Assimi Goita, on Tuesday made his first public appearance since insurgents launched coordinated attacks over the weekend, vowing
April 28, 2026
The United Nations on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, younger brother of the head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and three Colombian mercenaries
April 29, 2026
Senegal's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday changes to the country's electoral code, introducing provisions that could pave the way for
April 29, 2026
International mining companies are likely to keep investing in Mali, one of Africa's
April 28, 2026
More than 65,000 victims of a Malian Islamist who was a key figure in the police force that imposed sharia law on Timbuktu in 2012 and ordered public floggings and
April 28, 2026
The United States said on Tuesday it is not funding any security units tasked with policing or guarding mines in Democratic Republic of Congo after
April 28, 2026
Five million children across Sudan's Darfur region are facing extreme deprivation, the United Nations children's agency said on Tuesday, issuing an
April 28, 2026
The International Criminal Court has ordered an al-Qaida-linked leader to pay 7.2 million euros in reparations for atrocities in Timbuktu in Mali
April 28, 2026
Russia said on Tuesday it was important to quickly restore peace and stability in Mali where its forces are helping the military-led government battle insurgents who
April 28, 2026
Displaced people in a South Sudan village have been denied lifesaving aid by the government, according to eyewitnesses and aid groups
April 28, 2026
Officials say militants with the Islamic State group attacked a village overnight in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 29 people
April 28, 2026
Gunmen have raided an orphanage in north-central Nigeria, abducting 23 pupils
April 27, 2026
A plane crashed southwest of South Sudan's capital Juba on Monday, killing all 14 people on board, the country's civil aviation authority said.
April 27, 2026
In simultaneous attacks launched on Saturday, an alliance of al Qaeda-linked militants and separatist rebels killed
April 27, 2026
Sabastian Sawe hopes the stringent testing regime he underwent before becoming the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in marathon running will prove to the world he is competing clean
April 27, 2026
Clashes between two families over water access have killed at least 42 people in eastern Chad, according to the government
April 27, 2026
Congo has announced the creation of a paramilitary guard to secure its mining operations, backed by U.S. and Emirati investments
April 27, 2026
Mali's government is facing new questions about how long it can hold on to power two days after insurgents launched attacks across the country, hitting the main army base outside
April 27, 2026
Malian Minister of Defense Gen. Sadio Camara has been killed in an attack as jihadi and rebel forces seized towns and military bases across the West African country
April 26, 2026
Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the
April 26, 2026
Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack carried out by insurgents on Saturday, a government spokesperson said on Sunday on state television, confirming
April 27, 2026
An al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday for coordinated attacks across Mali, in one of the boldest operations insurgents have mounted
April 25, 2026
Islamic militants and separatists say they attacked several locations in Mali’s capital, Bamako, and other cities in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the West African country in recent years
April 25, 2026
Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights
April 25, 2026
Tunisian authorities on Friday ordered a one-month suspension of activities by the Human Rights League (LTDH), according to a statement from the group, which was among the
April 25, 2026
South African authorities promised on Friday to crack down on anyone carrying out xenophobic attacks on Ghanaians and other foreign nationals, a day after Ghana
April 24, 2026
Marching bands blew horns, women ululated and men cheered on Friday to celebrate King Mswati III's 40 years on Eswatini's throne,
April 24, 2026
A passenger plane overran the runway and careered into roadside bushes at a remote airstrip in northeastern Kenya on Friday, but all 36 people on board escaped without
April 24, 2026
Pope Leo on Thursday firmly condemned the killing of protesters in Iran, after U.S.
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war
April 23, 2026
At least 518 people were killed in violence that broke out during Tanzania's elections last October, a government-appointed commission of inquiry said on
April 23, 2026
Mauritius said it would wait up to the end of July for Britain to finalise a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands after London put the agreement on hold following
April 23, 2026
A commission in Tanzania formed to investigate postelection violence says that at least 518 people died after the October vote
April 23, 2026
A dispute over the remains of Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu continues as a court orders his body returned to his family
April 23, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the U.S.,
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo returns to Rome on Thursday after wrapping up an ambitious four-nation Africa tour in which he forcefully decried the
April 23, 2026
China's foreign ministry on Thursday said it firmly opposes Washington's criticism of Chinese pressure on some African countries to revoke overflight clearances for
April 23, 2026
The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”
April 22, 2026
Six former security officials accused of plotting the violent overthrow of President Bola Tinubu's government last year pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as
April 22, 2026
Pope Leo's
April 22, 2026
A Colombian woman deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo under a new agreement with the Trump administration said she was
April 22, 2026
The Trump administration is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo to resettle 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting U.S. visas,
April 22, 2026
Many African Catholics have greeted Leo’s first visit with joy. Others fear he’s lent legitimacy to strongman leaders
April 22, 2026
South Africa's headline consumer inflation edged up as expected last month, but analysts said the increase would be far larger in April when fuel
April 22, 2026
Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle
April 22, 2026
The foreign ministers of Niger and Mali have accused neighbouring countries of sponsoring terrorism, but said they were willing to cooperate
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo warned on Tuesday that humanity's future is at risk of being "tragically compromised" because of
April 21, 2026
China is willing to work with African countries to address the spillover effects of the Middle East conflict, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while meeting with
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa was so dizzying in its complexity that it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II
April 10, 2026
Nigerian authorities say they have charged six people with terrorism and treason over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, according to charge sheet seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday
April 21, 2026
Tigray's main political party said it was taking back control of the region's government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia's federal government that ended
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo lamented during an event in Angola on Monday that many people in the world were being "exploited by authoritarians and
April 20, 2026
U.S. companies are showing "significant" interest in Democratic Republic of Congo mining assets, including the rebel-held Rubaya area, a
April 20, 2026
Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has barred radio and television presenters from airing personal opinions, intimidating guests or broadcasting divisive
April 20, 2026
Pope Leo urged Angolans on Sunday to overcome divisions after decades of war, first at a Mass in a field outside Luanda and
April 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries
April 18, 2026
Pope Leo addresses spat with Trump, says ‘debate’ is not focus of his Africa trip
April 18, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption
April 17, 2026
France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open
April 17, 2026
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according
April 17, 2026
Pope Leo called on Cameroonians on Friday to reject violence and be generous with their neighbours during an event billed as
April 17, 2026
Senegal's president has approved a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality,
March 31, 2026
(Afrocab corrects total number of patients returned to treatment to 3,356 from around 1,000 in paragraph 17. Figure includes 1,095 patients aged under 24 years.)
March 31, 2026
Thirteen people were killed and 57 injured when ammunition exploded due to an electrical short circuit on a Burundian military base on Tuesday
April 01, 2026
Former Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been appointed U.N. resident coordinator in Kenya, the U.N. said on Wednesday, adding he would take up his post that
April 02, 2026
Pope warns of world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ in the wake of Trump attacks
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful
April 16, 2026
Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of
April 02, 2026
Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget about democracy" and that "
April 03, 2026
Cameroon's parliament on Saturday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to reintroduce the position of vice president, a measure the
April 04, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo will receive third-country nationals deported from the United States under a new deal with the Trump administration, the government in
April 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo has strong words for "those who manipulate religion... for their own military, economic and political gain."
April 16, 2026
South Africa's private sector returned to growth in March as faster output and hiring outweighed a slump in export orders and business confidence linked to the U.S.-
April 07, 2026
Kenya's private sector activity contracted in March for the first time since August, partly due to the war in the Middle East, with only the wholesale and retail sectors
April 07, 2026
Cameroon said Russian authorities have confirmed the deaths of 16 Cameroonians fighting against Ukraine, the first time the Central African country has spoken about the
April 07, 2026
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked the East African nation's speaker and deputy speaker of parliament, according to a decree read out in the parliament on Tuesday
April 07, 2026
With his previous insults towards African countries and his gutting of foreign assistance, U.S.
April 16, 2026
Benin Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni is expected to make the leap from behind-the-scenes technocrat to head of state on
April 08, 2026
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed a ceasefire declared in the Iran war, urging its full implementation on the ground and warning against any
April 08, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour
April 15, 2026
The international community has failed in Sudan, British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said on the sidelines of a Berlin conference on the war in the country, as she called for
April 15, 2026
(Corrects time of death in paragraph 5 to around 3 p.m and not 9 p.m.)
April 15, 2026
A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese man to pay a fine of 1 million shillings ($7,746) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle
April 15, 2026
South African opposition politician Julius Malema was back in court on Wednesday, as prosecutors pushed for him to be given the
April 15, 2026
The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15 overshadowed by other regional and global turmoil, despite having created what the United Nations calls the world's worst
April 15, 2026
The West African affiliates of al Qaeda and Islamic State have clashed in Niger for the first time, according to a statement from one of the groups, a
April 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump
April 15, 2026
A British man appeared in a London court on Thursday charged with having trained and fought as a commando with al Shabaab militants in Somalia over 15 years ago.
April 09, 2026
The United States has urged its citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria and authorised the departure of non‑emergency U.S. government employees and their families from the
April 09, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he is seeking direct talks
April 09, 2026
A court in Eswatini has ruled that the first five migrants the Trump administration sent to the African kingdom have a right to a lawyer, after they
April 10, 2026
Mali supports Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said on Friday, becoming the latest African country to endorse Rabat's vision for
April 10, 2026
East Africa's Djibouti is set to vote for a president on Friday, with incumbent Ismael Omar Guelleh expected to extend his 27-year rule after parliament removed age limits that
April 10, 2026
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Roelf Meyer as the country's ambassador to the United States
April 15, 2026
Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh nL8N3W50Q9 has won re-election with 97.8% of the vote, state-owned Radio Television Djibouti said on Saturday, handing him a
April 11, 2026
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit Eswatini next week, his office said on Monday, the island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Africa.
April 13, 2026
Benin's finance minister Romuald Wadagni was expected to coast to victory in a presidential election on Sunday, buoyed by strong economic growth and the absence of a
April 12, 2026
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread, according to a report
April 13, 2026
A separatist alliance in Cameroon's English-speaking regions said it would observe a three-day "safe travel passage" later this week to allow
April 13, 2026
Ghana said France was open to having discussions with a coalition of countries that are calling for reparations for transatlantic slavery, following a meeting
April 13, 2026
Pope Leo https://www.reuters.com/world/pope/ blasted violations of international law by "neocolonial" world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during
April 13, 2026
A Nigerian airstrike at a village market in which more than 200 people are feared dead is the latest incident in which the military has hit civilian targets while pursuing
April 13, 2026
An international conference to raise funding commitments for Sudan has produced pledges of more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.77 billion)
April 15, 2026
Pope Leo https://www.reuters.com/world/pope/ leaves
April 09, 2026
The sole opposition candidate in Benin's presidential election, Paul Hounkpe, has conceded defeat to Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni following the vote in the West
April 13, 2026
Nigerian police have arrested a 33-member gang over a November attack in which 38 people were abducted from a church in central Kwara state, police said on
April 14, 2026
Pope Leo paid homage to his spiritual roots on Tuesday, travelling to the ancient birthplace in Algeria of St.
April 14, 2026
Armed with pistols and an AK-47 assault rifle, the rebels ambushed Rev.
April 14, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive more than 30 deportees from the United States this week, four
April 15, 2026
The Iran war has stalled the world’s economic momentum this year, likely pushing growth lower compared to 2025, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday
April 14, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran
April 13, 2026
Authorities say that a stampede at a popular mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens
April 12, 2026
A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels hit a local market in northeastern Nigeria, killing over 100 civilians including children and injuring many others, a rights group and local media reported
April 12, 2026
Votes have been cast in Benin where the country is choosing a successor to President Patrice Talon, who is stepping down after a decade in power
April 12, 2026
UK forced to halt Chagos Islands deal after Trump criticism
April 11, 2026
Hungary Paks nuclear plant could operate at full capacity by Wednesday, PM Magyar says
Kazakhs begin voting in election set to tighten president's power
ECB chief Lagarde 'ready to serve' WEF, Swiss newspaper reports
Iran says Pakistan's army chief to visit Tehran on Monday
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