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
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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
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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
Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a sixth term, winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday's election
April 11, 2026
British authorities have arrested a Sudanese man on suspicion of endangering life after four migrants died trying to cross the English Channel
April 10, 2026
Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
April 10, 2026
Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats
November 12, 2024
Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast
April 09, 2026
China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people
April 08, 2026
Congo will receive some deportees from the U.S. as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program
April 05, 2026
A man has killed four children in a machete attack at a nursery school in Kampala, Uganda
April 02, 2026
Congo has declared the end of a two-year mpox outbreak, which is believed to have caused over 2,200 deaths
April 02, 2026
The Italian coast guard has found 19 people dead and rescued 58 from a dinghy filled with migrants near Lampedusa
April 01, 2026
Congo has erupted in joy overnight after an extra-time goal against Jamaica sent the country back to the World Cup for the first time in more than half a century
April 01, 2026
A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench
March 31, 2026
Public hearings on proposed constitutional amendments in Zimbabwe have turned chaotic and violent
March 31, 2026
An official says at least 50 people have died and 125 others are missing after landslides hit three districts in southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains
March 12, 2026
A group of four migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini, under a third-country program that rights groups protest
March 12, 2026
Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation
March 12, 2026
How African designers are making their mark on global fashion
January 23, 2025
This drone manufacturer wants to protect Africa’s power, mining and oil assets
September 09, 2025
South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining
March 11, 2026
South Africa says the new U.S. ambassador has been summoned to explain his criticism of the country’s policies
March 11, 2026
A series of explosions attributed to drones has killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma in eastern Congo
March 11, 2026
Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano say their meeting on May 16 is the biggest fight that can be made in mixed martial arts, and they’re both thrilled to end their lengthy retirements for the long-awaited showdown
March 11, 2026
Jihadi extremist groups including Boko Haram have targeted Nigerian military camps in intensifying attacks in the last week
March 10, 2026
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan says it will not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled
March 10, 2026
Rising global oil prices triggered by the Iran war are increasing economic pressures across Africa, where most countries rely heavily on imported petroleum products
March 09, 2026
Iraq coach Graham Arnold has urged soccer’s international governing body to postpone his team’s intercontinental World Cup qualifier later this month because of disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East
March 09, 2026
At least 25 people are known to have died after heavy rain caused flooding and flight disruption in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi
March 07, 2026
Local officials say Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, abducting more than 300 people, including women and children
March 06, 2026
Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors
March 06, 2026
Nightlife in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos can be very expensive with its table culture where revellers are divided into a multitier system and compelled to buy very expensive drinks
March 06, 2026
The medical charity Doctors Without Doctors says 26 staff working with the group remain unaccounted for a month after attacks in South Sudan
March 03, 2026
An official says at least 169 people were killed after insurgents raided a village in a remote area of South Sudan
March 02, 2026
Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous
March 02, 2026
South Africa has launched a mass cattle vaccination drive to stem an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that threatens meat, dairy, and export supplies
February 28, 2026
European drug regulators are endorsing a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease
February 27, 2026
Congolese authorities and a civil society group say they found mass graves in an area of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite a U.S. mediated peace deal
February 27, 2026
U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain has announced she will step down as the head of the humanitarian organization in three months to focus on her health
February 26, 2026
Police in Kenya say they have arrested a suspect in an alleged scheme that tricked Kenyans to fight in Ukraine on the side of the Russians
February 26, 2026
The U_N_ Security Council has imposed sanctions on four commanders of Sudan’s warring paramilitary force suspected of atrocities against civilians that U_N_ experts said showed “hallmarks of genocide.”
February 25, 2026
The Vatican has announced a packed early-2026 travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV, with trips to Monaco, Spain, and four African countries
February 25, 2026
The U.S. will wind down health assistance to Zimbabwe after the African country withdrew from talks on a proposed $367 million bilateral funding deal
February 25, 2026
Sierra Leone's government says that several members of a security team including an officer have been apprehended and transported over the border by members of the Guinean military
February 24, 2026
The United Nations and Somalia's government has said that nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger
February 24, 2026
More Ghanaians are wearing the colorful fugu traditional outfit in a trend triggered by online mockery
February 23, 2026
Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most trafficked mammal in the world
February 21, 2026
A new Kenyan intelligence report says 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine
February 19, 2026
A Frenchman who seemed like a beloved teacher in Morocco now faces accusations of decades of abuse
February 19, 2026
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February 18, 2026
Gabon has suspended access to social media and digital platforms throughout the central African nation until further notice as critics accuse the country’s leader of crackdown on dissent
February 18, 2026
Lawyers say a new group of third-country nationals has been deported by the United States to Cameroon
February 16, 2026
In Nigeria's capital, a rock musician is taking to the streets with roses and a guitar to remind people to slow down and feel the love ahead of Valentine's Day
February 14, 2026
The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead
February 12, 2026
Authorities say Cyclone Gezani killed at least 36 people, injured more than 370 and destroyed almost 18,000 homes across Madagascar
February 12, 2026
Authorities in Madagascar say at least 31 people have died after Tropical Cyclone Gezani hit the large Indian Ocean island
February 11, 2026
The British Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. and his brother Wale were both toddlers when their father died
February 11, 2026
The U.N. migration agency says a shipwreck off Libya's coast has left at least 53 Europe-bound migrants dead or missing
February 09, 2026
A drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including eight children
February 07, 2026
In the Nigerian villages of Woro and Nuku, attackers arrived on motorbikes, going door to door, shooting and setting homes ablaze
February 06, 2026
The Nigerian government has launched a military operation against Islamic militants after more than 160 people were killed in Muslim-majority villages
February 05, 2026
A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, where acute malnutrition has been registered in two more towns there
February 05, 2026
From scarcity to pride: How one country rebuilt its food culture after decades of war
February 05, 2026
Armed extremists have killed over 162 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara state, western Nigeria, a lawmaker said
February 04, 2026
Son of Libya’s late dictator Gadhafi shot dead by gunmen, political team says
February 04, 2026
Kenya is rolling out tax breaks to encourage use of electric vehicles
February 04, 2026
Libyan officials say that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has been killed in the northern African country
February 03, 2026
A landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine and families of the deceased are mourning their lost loved ones
February 03, 2026
Humanitarian organizations in South Sudan say restricted access to the conflict-hit eastern state of Jonglei has left thousands of people in need of lifesaving medical care and food assistance at risk
February 02, 2026
Fela Kuti has become the first African to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the Grammys Special Merit Awards
February 02, 2026
A landslide last week collapsed tunnels at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead
February 02, 2026
Three months after paramilitary fighters overran the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a doctor is providing a rare first-person account of the attack
January 31, 2026
Uganda’s army chief accused U.S. Embassy officials of helping opposition leader Bobi Wine as he went into hiding
January 30, 2026
The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base in Niger's capital
January 30, 2026
Ethiopia’s national carrier cancelled flights to and from its troubled northern region of Tigray as fears grew of a renewed fighting between federal troops and regional forces
January 30, 2026
South Africa has declared Israel’s deputy ambassador persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours
January 30, 2026
Researchers say human-induced climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods in southern Africa
January 29, 2026
A crash involving a minibus taxi and a truck has killed at least 11 people in South Africa
January 29, 2026
Spain will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization
January 27, 2026
A military hunt is underway in Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine, whom the country's army chief is calling a wanted fugitive
January 27, 2026
The Nigerian military says several of its officers will face trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the West African nation’s government
January 26, 2026
Michelle Francine Ngonmo, a Cameroonian-Italian, has dedicated her career to promoting Africans and people of color in Italian fashion
January 26, 2026
Armed men entered the home of Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and held his wife, Barbara Kyagulanyi, at gunpoint as they demanded to know his whereabouts
January 24, 2026
After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars in public funds
January 24, 2026
Senegal has won the Africa Cup of Nations in dramatic fashion
January 18, 2026
Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by the Gates Foundation to support 1,000 clinics across Africa with the aim to improve health care services
January 22, 2026
The driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria was arraigned on Tuesday
January 20, 2026
Witness testimony has ended in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack
January 20, 2026
Senegal's team receives a heroes' welcome in Dakar following their Africa Cup of Nations victory
January 20, 2026
Player protests, an awful penalty and fan uproar: What happened in the most chaotic AFCON final in history
January 19, 2026
Shapiro says Harris’ vetting team asked whether he was ‘an agent of the Israeli government’
January 19, 2026
Authorities in South Africa say a collision between a truck and a school minibus in Gauteng province has killed at least 13 children
January 19, 2026
Senegal is celebrating after its soccer team defeated Morocco 1-0 to win the Africa Cup of Nations
January 19, 2026
President Yoweri Museveni says his landslide victory in Uganda's election shows his party's dominance
January 18, 2026
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has won his seventh term with 71.65% of the votes
January 17, 2026
President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing
January 16, 2026
Authorities say torrential rains and flooding have killed more than 100 people in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in recent weeks and are warning that more severe weather is expected across the southern African region
January 16, 2026
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has an early lead in a tense presidential election
January 16, 2026
Widespread delays have plagued voting in Uganda’s presidential election
January 15, 2026
A pop star, an aging autocrat and a crackdown: What to expect from Uganda’s election
January 14, 2026
Peace efforts in Sudan have resumed in Cairo, with Egypt and the United Nations urging warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce
January 14, 2026
The Ugandan opposition leader known as Bobi Wine has been campaigning for president in a flak jacket and helmet as soldiers filled the streets of the capital, Kampala
January 14, 2026
The Trump administration has announced it will end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants
January 13, 2026
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
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