2021-10-25 07:21
Sudan’s information ministry says the country’s interim Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok is under house arrest and being forced to issue a message in support of a military coup. The… Read More
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2021-10-21 16:12
British police on Thursday charged a 25-year-old Londoner of Somali heritage with stabbing a lawmaker to death in a church, a case that has raised fears about the safety of elected politicia… Read More
2021-10-21 15:57
Southern African nations have sent envoys to the tiny kingdom of Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, to engage with King Mswati III about the political and civil unrest that has engulfed… Read More
2021-10-21 15:46
At least 16 people were killed and several others kidnapped by rebels in Congo’s east, as violence continues to rise in the area. The attack, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the to… Read More
2021-10-21 15:23
The US justice department says it has indicted seven leaders of the Nigeria-headquartered Black Axe gang for running internet dating scams from South Africa. An eighth person, suspected of c… Read More
2021-10-17 20:24
The Algerian coastguard recovered four bodies from the Mediterranean Sea and rescued 13 migrants after a boat capsized in its waters, the defence ministry said on Sunday. “Algerian coa… Read More
2021-10-17 19:52
Public transport remained at a standstill on Sunday in Eswatini, in the latest protest against Africa’s last absolute monarchy, rocked by a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations. Privat… Read More
2021-10-16 20:54
Alex Saab, a businessman wanted by U.S. authorities on charges of laundering money on behalf of Venezuela’s government, has been extradited to the United States, Cape Verde national ra… Read More
2021-10-16 20:48
Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets Saturday in the capital, Khartoum, to call for the dissolving of the joint military-civilian government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The protes… Read More
2021-10-15 16:20
Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed by a mob. Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyaribai c… Read More
2021-10-14 20:04
A mob lynched a military police officer after he killed a five-year-old girl when he fired on a car at a checkpoint in the capital of Cameroon’s English-speaking South West Region on T… Read More
2021-10-11 20:53
A German tourist and a crew member have died after fire broke out on a luxury houseboat on a dam in Jazini northern KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, according to local media. Five passe… Read More
2021-10-06 22:58
The Pandora Papers reveal has generated a lot of attention from many Nigerians particularly because of the mention of former PDP vice presidential candidate in the person of Mr. Peter Obi. O… Read More
2021-10-06 22:42
Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for… Read More
2021-10-06 22:19
Clermont striker Mohamed Bayo broke the deadlock to put Guinea ahead in the 56th minute of the Group I encounter. But Sudan hit back through Seif Teiri with 18 minutes remaining at the Grand… Read More
2021-10-04 09:18
Islamic State-allied jihadists have attacked a camp housing surrendered rivals from Boko Haram in the country’s northeast, the military said on Sunday. Saturday’s attack on Dambo… Read More
2021-10-04 08:28
An Ethiopian rebel group has kidnapped at least 145 civilians in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region following heavy fighting with security forces that displaced thousands of people. The st… Read More
2021-10-04 08:09
Thousands of Tunisians attended demonstrations in Tunis and other cities this weekend in a show of support for President Kais Saied’s recent consolidation of power — a move that… Read More
2021-10-04 07:47
More than 500 migrants attempting to get to Europe were on Sunday intercepted off the Libyan coast as the country continues a massive crackdown on migrants. The migrants were intercepted by… Read More
2021-10-02 22:47
A former senior official in an interim government for Ethiopia’s Tigray region appeared in court on Saturday over allegations of inciting conflict between the Tigrayan people and the c… Read More
2021-10-02 21:13
A major crackdown in western Libya resulted in the detention of 4,000 migrants, including hundreds of women and children, officials said Saturday. The U.N. said initial reports were that at… Read More
2021-10-02 21:01
One U.N. peacekeeper was killed and four more were severely wounded when their convoy hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali on Saturday, the United Nations’ force in Mali… Read More
2021-10-02 20:35
Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations, the presidency said on Saturday, without immediately giving a reason for the move. It said a statement would be issued later… Read More
2021-10-02 20:13
Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, protested Saturday against the government and called for the release of jailed opposition figures as they gathered in the capital… Read More
2021-10-01 15:56
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who led last month’s coup in Guinea, was sworn in as interim president on Friday promising to respect all the West African state’s international commitm… Read More
2021-10-01 12:20
Former Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool defender Steven Caulker has been called up to the Sierra Leone squad for the first time. The 29-year-old is one of 19 overseas-based players invited fo… Read More
2021-10-01 11:48
An Antonov cargo aircraft delivered four helicopters, weapons and ammunition from Russia to Mali late on Thursday, Malian interim defence minister Sadio Camara said. He said Mali had bought… Read More
2021-10-01 11:25
Guinea’s military leader Col Mamady Doumbouya will on Friday be sworn in as the interim president. He led the coup that ousted President Alpha Condé early last month, and recent… Read More
2021-10-01 11:10
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in the capital Khartoum on Thursday by an estimated 20,000 people in support of a civilian-led transition to democracy. An… Read More
2021-10-01 07:40
A former deputy speaker in Malawi has shot himself dead inside parliament in the capital, Lilongwe, authorities said. Clement Chiwaya, who moved in a wheelchair, had gone to the building on… Read More
2021-10-01 07:26
Ethiopia is expelling seven senior U.N. officials, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, two days after the world body’s aid chief warned a government blockade of aid had l… Read More
2021-09-30 10:51
A French court Thursday imposed a one-year sentence on former president Nicolas Sarkozy after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing for massive overspending on his 2012 re-electio… Read More
2021-09-29 20:38
President Kais Saied named Najla Bouden Romdhane, a geologist with little government experience as Tunisia’s first woman prime minister on Wednesday amid a crisis following his seizure… Read More
2021-09-28 15:56
Climate change threatens critical water supplies for Africa’s most vulnerable people. This is the central theme WaterAid regional programmes in Africa want to ensure delegates to… Read More
2021-09-23 20:46
The United States Special Envoy for Haiti abruptly resigned his post on Wednesday, amid a still-unfolding crisis involving thousands of Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border, over the Biden adm… Read More
2021-09-23 20:00
Four Tunisian parties said on Thursday that President Kais Saied had lost his legitimacy and called for an end to what they called a coup after he took control of legislative and executive p… Read More
2021-09-23 14:21
Thousands of protesters have taken part in a rally in Mali’s capital, Bamako, to call for closer ties with Russia. The rally follows days of diplomatic tension between Paris and Bamako… Read More
2021-09-23 08:05
The Libyan commander, Khalifa Haftar, has taken a step that may enable him to run in a presidential election, due to take place in December. General Haftar says he’s stepping down from… Read More
2021-09-23 07:54
Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircrafts, the Algerian presidency has said. The move was announced “in view of the continued provocations and hostil… Read More
2021-09-22 16:47
Sudanese military leaders said on Wednesday the civilian politicians they share power with had opened the door to a coup attempt by neglecting public welfare while they were consumed by inte… Read More
2021-09-22 16:17
The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma for a $2 billion government arms deal has been postponed to Oct. 26, the presiding judge said on Wednesday. Judge Piet Koen… Read More
2021-09-22 15:55
Nearly a year and a half after being abducted by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso, Edith Blais risked her life to escape, fearing she’d never be free. ”(What you’re think… Read More
2021-09-21 08:59
The Sudan government says there has been a failed attempt by the military to takeover power from the transitional government and measures are being taken to contain it, state media are… Read More
2021-09-15 12:23
A US court dismissed an appeal by a former unit of Enron that tried to stake a claim to the proceeds from the sale of a luxury yacht to settle a debt it’s owed by Nigeria’s gover… Read More
2021-09-15 11:55
Not less than eleven people have died in a suspected suicide bombing in Mogadishu the Somalia’s capital on Tuesday, according to police and witnesses. The attack killed and wounded civ… Read More
2021-09-14 12:08
South Africa’s FA (Safa) is confident the country can sufficiently suppress its number of Covid-19 infections in time to host Fifa’s Club World Cup later this year. South Africa… Read More
2021-09-14 11:38
A prominent member of the Rwandan refugee community in Mozambique, who had told police there was a plot to kill him, has been shot dead, increasing the number of Rwandan nationals killed in… Read More
2021-09-14 11:01
Floods caused by heavy rainfall have killed more than 80 people and damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Sudan, an official said Monday. “A total of 84 people were k… Read More
2021-09-14 10:39
A 27-year old South African woman was rushed to the hospital after her car was set alight during an attack outside a school on Monday by a man believed to be her boyfriend, according to the… Read More
2021-09-14 09:56
Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday received Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Sharm El Sheikh, first visit by Israeli prime minister to Egypt in over a decade. The… Read More
2021-09-13 10:33
A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he allegedly stabbed four women and a six-year-old child in the tourist town of Rimini on Saturday night, ANSA news agency reporte… Read More
2021-09-11 19:17
Protesters marching against the junta in Chad took to the streets of the capital, N’Djamena, the AFP news agency reports. The country is currently being governed by what’s known… Read More
2021-09-10 12:49
A 16-year-old boy from Alexandra High School, Johannesburg in South Africa has died after being stabbed, allegedly by a 14-year-old girl. The girl is a pupil at the Pholosho Secondary School… Read More
2021-09-10 10:13
Guinea’s military, which seized power over the weekend, said on Thursday that it has ordered the central bank and other banks to freeze all government accounts. On Sunday a group of sp… Read More
2021-09-08 20:20
Somalia’s two most powerful leaders were locked in a standoff on Wednesday after they named different men to head the politically unstable Horn of Africa nation’s intelligence se… Read More
2021-09-08 19:58
Local officials in Ethiopia alleged Wednesday that Tigray forces have killed more than 120 civilians in recent days following battlefield losses, in what would be one of the deadliest massac… Read More
2021-09-08 19:43
Carlos Queiroz was appointed Wednesday as Egypt’s new coach following the sacking of Hossam El-Badry after an unconvincing start to qualifying for the 2022 World Cup. The Egyptian foot… Read More
2021-09-08 08:44
Military leaders who’ve seized power in Guinea have released about 80 prisoners ahead of a summit of the west African grouping Ecowas. The leaders of the Ecowas bloc are due to meet vi… Read More
2021-09-08 08:06
The Cape Verde’s constitutional court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a Venezuelan government envoy who’s been accused of money laundering and corruption. Ale… Read More
2021-09-07 20:36
Guinea’s main opposition leader has welcomed Sunday’s ousting of President Alpha Condé calling it an opportunity for a new beginning for the country. Cellou Dalein Diallo… Read More
2021-09-07 20:24
Exiled former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s dream of a peaceful return home edged closer last week with the announcement of an unlikely coalition between his party and that of Presi… Read More
2021-09-07 20:00
Following former president Jacob Zuma’s placement on medical parole, AfriForum has sent a lawyer’s letter to the national commissioner of correctional services, Arthur Fraser, re… Read More
2021-09-06 09:46
Saadi Gaddafi, a son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, according to Libya justice ministry source. &ldq&hell…Read More
2021-09-06 09:06
Soldiers who seized power in Guinea on Sunday have ordered government ministers and national figures to attend a meeting later on Monday. The special forces officers warned that anybody who… Read More
2021-09-05 21:00
Twelve people were killed on an Egyptian highway early on Sunday when their bus overturned on their return from the popular Red Sea resort Sharm El-Sheikh, medical and security sources said… Read More
2021-09-05 20:36
Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma has been placed on medical parole because of his ill health, the government’s correctional services department said on Sunday. Last month priso… Read More
2021-09-05 19:23
Guinea special forces ousted Guinea’s long-serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday, telling the nation that they had dissolved government in an apparent coup d’etat. The country… Read More
2021-09-03 10:51
Fighting broke out in Tripoli early on Friday between rival armed forces, witnesses said, the heaviest clashes in the Libyan capital since the conflict between eastern and western factions p… Read More
2021-09-02 22:26
Ugandan security forces are holding the vice-chancellor of the privately owned Victoria University over allegations of espionage and illegally staying in the country, army spokesperson Brig… Read More
2021-09-02 22:07
Eight people suffocated to death when police in Burkina Faso used tear gas against unauthorised gold miners at Nordgold’s Bissa mine, a prosecutor said on Thursday. About 40 were on si… Read More
2021-09-02 10:09
A decade-long scandal involving Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, the eldest son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, may actually have a happy ending for the people of the country whose res… Read More
2021-09-02 09:35
A television presenter in Ivory Coast was convicted on Wednesday of glorifying rape and given a one-year suspended prison sentence for asking a convicted rapist he invited onto his prime-tim… Read More
2021-08-31 21:45
Countries neighbouring Libya wrapped up their meeting Tuesday in Algeria, with calls for foreign fighters and mercenaries to be pulled out from the conflict-stricken North African nation. Th… Read More
2021-08-31 21:30
Clashes erupted at a government building in central Tripoli on Tuesday after a dispute over the leadership of a state institution, its head said, underscoring the volatility and insecurity i… Read More
2021-08-31 21:17
A television presenter in Ivory Coast was suspended on Tuesday for 30 days after he invited a convicted rapist onto his prime-time show and asked him to simulate a rape using a mannequin. Iv… Read More
2021-08-30 21:27
Algerian authorities arrested on Sunday Tunisia’s media mogul and former presidential candidate Nabil Karoui, after he entered Algeria secretly and illegally, Tunisian media said. Karo… Read More
2021-08-30 21:15
At least 29 Africans, including seven girls, died last week while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands on a smuggling boat, according to information released Monday from a U.N. migra… Read More
2021-08-27 17:13
Uganda on Friday foiled a suicide bomb attack against the state funeral of a top police and army commander who led a major African Union offensive against al-Shabaab militants in Somalia. Se… Read More
2021-08-27 16:43
A Tunisian MP has filed a legal court against President Kais Saied for violating the constitution and suspending parliament last month. Bichr Chebbi, of the Ennahdha party, is accusing the p… Read More
2021-08-27 16:20
Liberia’s power distribution firm has lost $220m (£160m) in the last five years alone thanks to a cartel stealing electricity and unpaid bills, US ambassador Michael McCarthy say… Read More
2021-08-26 06:43
Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country’s constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due… Read More
2021-08-26 06:22
Tanzania’s president on Wednesday said five people are dead, including three police officers, after a gun battle with an armed man near the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam. It was not… Read More
2021-08-25 06:18
Ghana’s Police Service has notified the public that it will be conducting mass burial for 200 unidentified and unclaimed bodies The burials will begin “by close of work this week… Read More
2021-08-24 18:23
New President Hakainde Hichilema pledged on Tuesday to tackle Zambia’s “unsustainable” debt, lamenting that the national budget was overwhelmed by the cost of servicing it… Read More
2021-08-24 18:08
Algeria is cutting diplomatic relations with Morocco, Foreign Minister Ramdane Lamamra said on Tuesday at a news conference, accusing its neighbour of “hostile actions”. Morocco… Read More
2021-08-24 17:58
Former Chadian president Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall said Tuesday. He… Read More
2021-08-24 17:39
Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has said the former army chief will not be handed over to the United States where he is wanted for alleged drug-trafficking offenc… Read More
2021-08-23 17:55
Rwandan authorities have deported a Belgian lawyer representing Paul Rusesabagina – an ex-hotelier whose story inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, based on the country’s 1994 genocid… Read More
2021-08-23 17:08
South Africa has announced that it will extradite former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang to Mozambique, according to news agency report. It comes two years after Mr Chang was arrest… Read More
2021-08-23 16:56
The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions over Ethiopia’s deadly Tigray conflict as hundreds of thousands of people face famine conditions under a government blockade the U.S… Read More
2021-08-21 19:31
The government in Chad has said it is halving the number of soldiers deployed to an international force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region. Since 2017, 1,200 Chadian troops have… Read More
2021-08-21 15:43
At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a village in southwestern Niger where Islamist militants have repeatedly massacred civilians this year, a local official and a security so… Read More
2021-08-21 15:17
Not less than 40 people are missing after gunmen raided a town in the north-west Nigerian state of Zamfara on Friday. Officials said they feared the villagers were being held hostage by arme… Read More
2021-08-19 21:33
Gunmen ambushed a Malian army convoy in central Mali on Thursday, killing at least 15 soldiers, the army said, just days after another attack in the country’s north left several dozen… Read More
2021-08-19 21:23
Spanish police have arrested a suspected Moroccan people-smuggler over the deaths of 14 migrants as they tried to reach the Canary Islands this month. The 43-year-old suspect is thought to b… Read More
2021-08-19 13:16
Rwandan troops have notched up “remarkable” early successes against insurgents in the Cabo Delgado region of northern Mozambique, reports a civil society observer group. The grou… Read More
2021-08-19 12:10
Clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon have killed at least 32 people this month, with 19 villages torched, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday. Some 11,000 people f… Read More
2021-08-10 19:57
Algeria’s president announced Tuesday night that 25 soldiers have been killed saving residents from the wildfires ravaging forests and villages east of the capital, adding to the fire… Read More
2021-08-09 15:37
Southeastern Nigerian city centres were deserted on Monday as many people stayed at home to show solidarity with a detained separatist leader and to express broader grievances about how the… Read More
2021-08-09 10:28
More than 40 civilians were killed in northern Mali when jihadists attacked three villages near the border with Niger, a military officer and local officials said on Monday. “More than… Read More
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