Omar Artan, the soccer referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States for the World Cup tournament, has returned home to a hero's welcome by supporters and officials
June 10, 2026
At least 12 people are dead and nine more were injured in a mass shooting in a Johannesburg suburb
June 10, 2026
Staring at the burned out shell of his Belfast home, Jamie Corry said he would never get over the sight of watching his house go up in
June 10, 2026
More than 1,300 migrants have died trying to reach the Spanish coast in the first five months of 2026, according to an advocacy group that tracks crossings from Africa along
June 10, 2026
At least 12 people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday evening when gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, police said
June 10, 2026
Greece's parliament approved legislation late on Tuesday to fast-track deportation of rejected asylum seekers and allow their transfer to "return hubs" outside the bloc
June 10, 2026
The World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States after arriving in Miami and subsequently dropped from the tournament by FIFA had been set to make history for his country
June 09, 2026
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday said confirmed Ebola cases had climbed to nearly 600, raising awareness within the local population about the importance of safety
June 10, 2026
A protester was shot in central Kenya on Tuesday, witnesses said, during a demonstration against a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the U.S. has raced
June 09, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said confirmed Ebola deaths had climbed to 101 and that the presence of armed groups was continuing to hinder the response in the
June 09, 2026
At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo
June 09, 2026
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
Texas State Board of Education votes to require millions of students to study Bible stories in classrooms
SpaceX, Charter discuss mobile phone partnership in US, Bloomberg News says
Soccer-World Cup fans left flustered by last-minute StubHub ticket cancellations
Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking inmate before he died
Colombia fans return to Hard Rock Stadium nearly 2 years after chaotic scene at Copa America final
SpaceX set to join Nasdaq 100, paving way for wave of passive buying
Angels fire GM Perry Minasian midway through a 6th straight disappointing season in his tenure
Ina Yoon widens her Women's PGA Championship lead to 5 strokes