US imposes sanctions on former Congo President Joseph Kabila
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila
April 30, 2026The 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