Senegal and Ivory Coast fans who want to support their teams at the World Cup this summer have had their plans upended because of a travel ban imposed by the Trump administration
January 13, 2026
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Ugandan president’s military son, is not on the ballot in Thursday's presidential election
January 12, 2026
Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman
January 10, 2026
Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday
January 09, 2026
A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others
January 09, 2026
Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela
January 09, 2026
Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland
January 09, 2026
A tennis player played so poorly that it went viral. Tournament organizers say they should have never let it happen
January 08, 2026
Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program
January 08, 2026
Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints
January 08, 2026
The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians
January 07, 2026
President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”
January 07, 2026
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are first from little-understood period of human evolution
January 07, 2026
Uganda is preparing for a election in an atmosphere of political violence
January 07, 2026
Provisional results have shown Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra won a third term in last month’s election
January 06, 2026
British boxer Anthony Joshua has reportedly returned to the UK after a deadly crash in Nigeria
January 03, 2026
Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved "super tusker" elephant named Craig
January 03, 2026
Police say the driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria has been charged
January 02, 2026
A multi-story building under construction in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, collapsed Friday, leaving at least four people believed trapped, according to a government official
January 02, 2026
British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries sustained after a deadly crash
January 01, 2026
British boxer Anthony Joshua injured in car crash that killed two close friends in Nigeria
December 29, 2025
Bazoumana Touré scores in stoppage time as defending champion Ivory Coast recovers from a two-goal deficit to beat Gabon 3-2 in the Africa Cup of Nations
December 31, 2025
Mali and Burkina Faso have banned U.S. citizens from entering their countries
December 31, 2025
Authorities report that at least 41 young men have died from circumcision procedures during traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December
December 30, 2025
Tributes have been paid after the crash that injured British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two close associates
December 30, 2025
Host nation Morocco and South Africa have advanced to the Africa Cup of Nations’ knockout stage
December 29, 2025
CNN’s Rahel Solomon spoke to Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar after President Donald Trump said he ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, whom he accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
December 25, 2025
Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup
December 28, 2025
The Central African Republic voted on Sunday to elect a new president and federal lawmakers
December 28, 2025
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area
December 27, 2025
A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit
December 26, 2025
Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria
December 25, 2025
Trump says violence in Nigeria targets Christians. The reality is more nuanced
December 26, 2025
The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years
December 26, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians
December 25, 2025
A bomb has exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people
December 25, 2025
Ivory Coast has got its Africa Cup of Nations title defense off to a winning start and France great Zinedine Zidane has watched his goalkeeper son’s safe hands as Algeria also started its campaign with a win
December 24, 2025
Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction
December 24, 2025
Search teams in Turkey have recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a jet crash that killed eight people, including Libya’s military chief
December 24, 2025
Guineans are set to vote Sunday in their first presidential election since a military coup four years ago
December 24, 2025
Libya’s army chief killed in plane crash in Turkey
December 23, 2025
Nigerians have welcomed back 130 children and teachers who were released after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history
December 22, 2025
Sudan’s prime minister is proposing a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force
December 23, 2025
A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter
December 22, 2025
Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels
December 22, 2025
A spectacular bicycle kick has earned royal approval for Ayoub El Kaabi as host Morocco opened the 35th Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-0 win over Comoros
December 21, 2025
Authorities report that nine people have died and at least 10 others are injured after a shooting at a South African pub
December 21, 2025
Manhunt underway in South Africa after 9 people killed in shooting, police say
December 21, 2025
The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo for a year
December 20, 2025
It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan
December 19, 2025
What Peter Arnett asked Osama bin Laden
December 18, 2025
Detty December is one of the world’s biggest parties. And that’s a big problem for some
December 19, 2025
Three governments that were central in South Sudan’s peace process have urged leaders to end renewed fighting and focus on implementing the peace agreement that ended a deadly conflict
December 18, 2025
Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel detained after an emergency landing
December 18, 2025
The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp
December 18, 2025
Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania
December 18, 2025
South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship
December 16, 2025
South African immigration authorities have raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders
December 17, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have announced they will withdrawal from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo following U.S. pressure
December 16, 2025
Liverpool manager Arne Slot insists there are no outstanding issues between him and Mohamed Salah after recalling the club great to the team for the 2-0 win over Brighton in the Premier League
December 13, 2025
U.N. experts warn that the treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir
December 12, 2025
More than 400 civilians have been killed since the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group escalated its offensive in eastern Congo, officials said
December 11, 2025
How a World Cup match scheduled in Seattle has caused outrage in Egypt and Iran
December 11, 2025
‘Trump Gold Card’ launches, offering expedited immigration pathway with a $1 million fee
December 11, 2025
Two four-story buildings collapsed overnight in Morocco's city of Fez, killing 22 people
December 10, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 says it has taken control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo
December 10, 2025
A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency
December 09, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four people and four firms for allegedly recruiting former Colombian military members to train soldiers for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
December 09, 2025
Judges at the International Criminal Court have sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than 20 years ago
December 09, 2025
A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony
December 08, 2025
Benin's government has said Sunday's short-lived coup left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers
December 08, 2025
Liverpool coach Arne Slot says he hasn't spoken to Mohamed Salah since the forward's public criticism of the club
December 08, 2025
A bomb explosion has killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo
December 08, 2025
The World Health Organization's director says the death toll from drone strikes on a kindergarten and other sites in Sudan’s Kordofan state last week is now at 114 people including 63 children
December 08, 2025
Benin President Patrice Talon has condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the administrative capital, Cotonou
December 07, 2025
A mass shooting at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa, has left at least 12 people dead, including three children
December 06, 2025
President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo
December 04, 2025
US reconsidering ties with Tanzania after deadly election violence
December 04, 2025
President Donald Trump's name has been added to the sign outside the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where he is expected to host the presidents of
December 04, 2025
Rwanda’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he hoped an accord set to be signed by U.S.
December 03, 2025
Somalis reacted with outrage on Wednesday to Donald Trump's derogatory remarks about them and their country, although a few also said the U.S. president had spoken
December 03, 2025
The Sudanese paramilitary force that besieged then overran a city in Darfur in late October is systematically holding trapped
December 03, 2025
A parliamentary inquiry in Kenya has accused British troops training there of a pattern of sexual misconduct and environmental harm that has led the forces from the former
December 03, 2025
Kenya's private sector activity expanded for the third consecutive month in November to stand at a five-year high, boosted by better performance across all sectors, a survey
December 03, 2025
Amnesty International has accused Sudan's Rapid Support Forces of committing war crimes in Darfur
December 03, 2025
South Africa's private sector activity contracted for the second consecutive month in November driven by sustained falls in output and new business volumes, an S&P
December 03, 2025
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister after seizing power following disputed elections
November 28, 2025
Couple raises money for security after kidnapped child escapes in Nigeria
November 28, 2025
-The presidents of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda will travel to Washington next week to sign a peace deal and meet with U.S.
November 28, 2025
The African Union has suspended Guinea-Bissau following a military coup, emphasizing its zero tolerance for unconstitutional changes in government
November 29, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville on Saturday, days after the military seized power, a source close
November 29, 2025
Nigeria has offered Guinea-Bissau's opposition presidential candidate Fernando Dias protection at its embassy in the capital Bissau following a military coup, the Nigerian
December 01, 2025
A monthly gauge of South African manufacturing sentiment saw its sharpest drop of the year in November, a purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on Monday.
December 01, 2025
At a transit camp here on the Chad-Sudan border, Najwa Isa Adam, 32, hands out bowls of pasta and meat to orphaned Sudanese children from al-Fashir, the
December 01, 2025
Nigeria's economic growth slowed to 3.98% year-on-year in the third quarter, data showed on Monday, as inflation and tight monetary
December 01, 2025
A recent Ebola outbreak in southern Congo has been declared over by health officials, after no new cases were reported for 45 days
December 01, 2025
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday that it seized full control of Babanusa, a transport junction in the country's oil-producing south, though its
December 01, 2025
President Bola Tinubu nominated Nigeria's former top general to replace the defence minister, who resigned amid a surge in mass kidnappings and Islamist
December 02, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission said on Tuesday it was unable to complete the November 23 presidential election process after armed men seized ballots and vote tallies
December 02, 2025
A Reuters story about Tajikistan holding talks with Russia about helping guard its Afghan border has been withdrawn following a post-publication review showing insufficient
December 02, 2025
Tanzanian president defends police after hundreds killed in October election protests
December 02, 2025
Democratic Republic of Congo's army and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels traded accusations of ceasefire violations on Tuesday, two days before the White House is set to host the signing of
December 02, 2025
Germany said on Thursday that it would seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his decision to exclude
November 27, 2025
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, has resigned from parliament amid allegations that she lured 17 men to
November 28, 2025
Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as transitional president on Thursday, a day after soldiers toppled the civilian leadership in a swift power grab made
November 27, 2025
Tunisia freed prominent lawyer Sonia Dahmani, a vocal critic of President Kais Saied, on Thursday after a year and a half in prison and she said she hoped her release
November 27, 2025
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal
November 27, 2025
Cameroon expects its 2026 budget deficit to more than double due to a sharp rise in spending aimed at supporting economic activity amid continued global
November 27, 2025
Army officers in Guinea-Bissau said on Wednesday they had toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo after disputed elections, the latest coup in the West African nation long plagued by
November 27, 2025
President Donald Trump says he's barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year near Miami
November 26, 2025
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a nationwide security emergency and ordered the army and police to recruit thousands of additional personnel to tackle worsening
November 26, 2025
A group of army officers said they had seized power in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday, a day before the planned announcement of results from a hotly contested presidential
November 26, 2025
West Africa's ECOWAS and African Union observers on Wednesday expressed concern over the military takeover in Guinea-Bissau and the arrests of election officials, a joint statement
November 26, 2025
Several parents of the over 300 schoolchildren seized by armed men in the latest mass abduction in Nigeria tell The Associated Press the government has told them nothing about rescue efforts
November 26, 2025
Trump will not invite South Africa to G20 in US
November 26, 2025
Security forces in Uganda have detained more than 300 supporters and officials from the party of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine since campaigning for a January election
November 25, 2025
Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, the state governor's media aide said on
November 25, 2025
The United States has presented Sudan's warring parties with a proposal for a truce but neither side has formally accepted it, U.S. envoy Massad Boulos said
November 25, 2025
The Christian Association of Nigeria has reported more than 300 students were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria, some as young as ten years old. CNN's Larry Madowo reports.
November 25, 2025
In an exclusive investigation, CNN has found evidence that Tanzanian police used deadly fire on protesters following a disputed election in October. Forensic analysis of graphic videos and imagery reveals how protesters were killed by police and indicates mass graves concealing the scale of the brutal crackdown. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports.
November 21, 2025
Nigeria's president says that all 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week from a school in Kebbi in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued
November 25, 2025
Martha Mathias, her husband and two children were asleep at home when gunmen arrived at St Mary's Catholic School campus, in central Nigeria, in the early hours of Friday.
November 25, 2025
This volcano erupted for the first time in 10,000 years sending ash clouds across continents
November 25, 2025
A surge in militant attacks and instability in northern Nigeria is driving hunger to record levels, the U.N.
November 25, 2025
The head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces said late on Monday that his paramilitaries would immediately enter into a three-month humanitarian truce, after U.S.
November 24, 2025
Sudan’s top general has rejected a ceasefire proposal from U_S_-led mediators, calling it “the worst yet.”
November 24, 2025
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
November 24, 2025
Gambia said it was temporarily hosting Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary on humanitarian grounds following a contested presidential election in Cameroon last month
November 24, 2025
LAGOS -The kidnapping of more than 300 Catholic school students is the latest such mass abduction in Nigeria.
November 24, 2025
The World Bank lifted Kenya's economic growth forecast for this year to almost 5% on Monday, citing a pick up in the construction sector in East Africa's largest
November 24, 2025
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the
November 23, 2025
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped and are now with their families
November 23, 2025
Pope Leo asked on Sunday for the immediate release of children and staff abducted this week from a Catholic school in Nigeria, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded
November 23, 2025
Coup-prone Guinea-Bissau voted on Sunday in presidential and legislative elections, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a tight contest to become the first leader
November 23, 2025
Finland's President Alexander Stubb told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg that he thought U.S.
November 23, 2025
Guinea-Bissau has begun counting votes as President Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeks a second term
November 23, 2025
Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held
November 23, 2025
‘Oh my God, this is our Tanzania’: CNN investigation shows police fatally shooting protesters, signs of mass graves
November 21, 2025
South Africa's trade minister Parks Tau said on Sunday that he expected negotiations with the U.S. over a trade deal would continue, despite differences between the two
November 23, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians
November 23, 2025
Walmart opened its first store in South Africa on Saturday, marking the U.S. retail giant’s debut on the African continent as it seeks a stake in a
November 22, 2025
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by
November 22, 2025
Nigeria is under renewed global scrutiny after gunmen abducted more than 300 students from a Catholic school in the northwest, the second major
November 22, 2025
Armed bandits kidnap more than 300 students from Catholic school in Nigeria
November 21, 2025
Gunmen abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School in Niger state, Nigeria, according to an updated tally issued Saturday by the Christian Association of Nigeria
November 22, 2025
President Donald Trump says he’s “immediately” ending temporary legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
November 22, 2025
Gunmen have attacked a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers
November 21, 2025
Nigeria has grabbed global headlines again following a spate of attacks by gunmen involving the kidnapping of dozens of students from two
November 21, 2025
World leaders are arriving for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda
November 21, 2025
Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Lubero territory, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central
November 21, 2025
The Indigenous People of Biafra, a separatist group in southeastern Nigeria, remains committed to peaceful self-determination after a court sentenced its leader to life in prison for terrorism
November 21, 2025
Uganda - a landlocked African nation that until recently struggled to get a World Bank loan - is the latest hot destination for
November 21, 2025
Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians
November 20, 2025
The United States is considering actions such as sanctions and Pentagon engagement on counterterrorism as part of a plan to
November 20, 2025
The White House has hit out at South Africa’s leader for "running his mouth" over the United States’ boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg
November 20, 2025
A Nigerian court on Thursday sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on all seven terrorism-related charges at the end of a
November 20, 2025
Incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo faces surprisingly strong competition in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election on Sunday, a contest unfolding against the
November 20, 2025
South African authorities say they are planning for multiple protests by local and international activists around this weekend's Group of 20 world leaders summit in Johannesburg
November 19, 2025
President Donald Trump says he's turning his attention to helping find an end to the brutal civil war in Sudan
November 19, 2025
A super-sized World Cup has paved the way for tiny Curaçao and Cape Verde to book their places at sport’s biggest global event next year
November 19, 2025
U.S.
November 19, 2025
Greece, long a gateway to Europe for refugees, wants to join several other EU countries in discussing the deportation of rejected asylum seekers to Africa, the Greek migration
November 19, 2025
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -Gunmen have attacked a church in Nigeria, killing at least two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers, police and witnesses said on Wednesday, days
November 19, 2025
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a 53-year-old ex-army general, is seeking a second term in a November 23 vote, but faces 11 challengers in the West African nation with
November 19, 2025
The United Nations is pushing to gain access to al-Fashir, the famine-stricken city in Darfur where witnesses have reported mass reprisals since a takeover by
November 19, 2025
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is making a two-day visit to the southern African nation of Zambia that will focus on the $1.4 billion refurbishment of a Cold War-era railway line to further improve China’s access to critical minerals
November 19, 2025
One of the 25 schoolgirls abducted from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria’s Kebbi state has escaped and returned home
November 18, 2025
A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map intended to flip several Democratic-held U.S.
November 18, 2025
Mali's military and allied militias killed at least 31 people in attacks on two villages in the central Segou region where the main insurgent group linked to al Qaeda operates, Human Rights
November 18, 2025
Global refining margins have hit multi-year highs in November due to sanctions on Russia, refinery outages and
November 18, 2025
Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman is set to press U.S.
November 18, 2025
Britain's foreign minister Yvette Cooper plans to introduce sanctions relating to human rights violations and abuses in war-torn Sudan, she said on Tuesday, stressing the need for
November 18, 2025
Eswatini has become the first African country to receive lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection that global health officials call a game-changer
November 18, 2025
The Group of 20 major economies should team up with the International Monetary Fund and others to launch a new debt refinancing plan for low-
November 18, 2025
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo struck a confident note as he kicked off his re-election bid in early November, claiming that "stability has been
November 18, 2025
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has re-appointed his former vice president James Wani Igga to the same position, the state broadcaster said, after dismissing a powerful ally who had
November 18, 2025
Nigeria coach Éric Chelle claims a Congo team staff member used voodoo during the penalty shootout that eliminated the African soccer power from qualifying for the 2026 World Cup
November 17, 2025
Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a high school in the country's northwestern Kebbi state
November 17, 2025
Prosecutors sought a life sentence for a Janjaweed militia leader convicted of atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region, telling the International Criminal
November 17, 2025
Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal
November 15, 2025
The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed a framework agreement on Saturday for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in
November 15, 2025
S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Nigeria to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, backing the country's ongoing economic reforms, and also affirmed the country's rating at "B-/B".
November 14, 2025
U.S.
November 14, 2025
Tanzania's president promised on Friday to investigate violence during last month's elections and offered condolences to bereaved families, in her most public acknowledgement to
November 14, 2025
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera will face six rivals in a presidential election on December 28, after a court rejected attempts to bar two former prime
November 14, 2025
The Central African Republic’s top court has cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election
November 14, 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday South Africa will symbolically hand over the G20 presidency to an "empty chair" in the absence of U.S. leadership
November 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety
November 14, 2025
Members of the U.N.
November 14, 2025
A senior adviser to the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments calling for a halt to the flow of military support coming to the RSF from abroad may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire
November 13, 2025
The funding gap for aid agencies is accentuating Sudan's crisis, leaving them unable to help many of the tens of thousands of people fleeing from the Darfur city of al-
November 13, 2025
The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan's civil war is shifting its focus eastward after consolidating its grip over Darfur last month, reigniting violence and
November 13, 2025
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday there was a high chance he would visit Algeria, hailing the north African country's release of writer Boualem
November 13, 2025
Mali's foreign minister has dismissed as implausible the notion that jihadists could soon take the capital, in the first extensive government response to security fears that have
November 13, 2025
Tanzania's leader chose a longtime loyalist as prime minister on Thursday, after a disputed presidential election in the East African country prompted clashes in which rights groups say
November 13, 2025
Accused by her aunt at age 13 of being a witch responsible for her family's misfortunes, Faith ran away from her rural home in the southern Nigerian state of
November 13, 2025
There is no genocide in northern Nigeria, the African Union Commission chairperson said on Wednesday, rejecting accusations by U.S.
November 12, 2025
U.N. humanitarian affairs and relief head Tom Fletcher has told The Associated Press that the situation is getting “horrific for civilians” in Sudan
November 12, 2025
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Bol Mel as vice president and deputy leader of the ruling party, according to a decree read on state television,
November 12, 2025
The family and lawyers of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Jawhar Ben Mbarek accused prison authorities on Wednesday of brutally assaulting him to try to force an end
November 12, 2025
South Africa's leader says that U_S_ President Donald Trump’s decision that the United States government boycott the Group of 20 summit next weekend is “their loss."
November 12, 2025
Senegal's president and the political party he belongs to have issued conflicting statements over the leadership of the ruling coalition, a clear sign of dissension among top leaders
November 12, 2025
South Africa's largest mobile operator Vodacom Group has signed an agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet for businesses across Africa,
November 12, 2025
The European Union and Indian navies have taken over a ship used by pirates off the coast of Somalia to seize a Malta-flagged tanker called the Hellas Aphrodite
November 12, 2025
The U.N.
November 11, 2025
Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country
November 11, 2025
Women fleeing Sudan's al-Fashir city report killings, systematic rape and the disappearance of their children following its capture by the paramilitary Rapid
November 11, 2025
China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch
Tropical Storm Moke to dump heavy rain on Hawaii’s Big Island just a week after Hurricane Lala
Powerful storm hits Baltic countries, killing 2 and leaving hundreds of thousands without power
Harry Kane, Giulia Gwinn are Germany's players of the year
Iran says new sanctions threatened by 'desperate' US will fail
Haaland's haircut: Man City star chops off his locks for the new season