Nigeria's inflation rate rose for the second straight month in October, advancing to 33.88% in annual terms from 32.70% in September mainly due to higher food
November 15, 2024
South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal mining
November 14, 2024
More than 61,000 people are estimated to have died in Khartoum state during the first 14 months of Sudan's war, with evidence
November 14, 2024
Senegal will vote in legislative elections on Sunday that will determine whether the new president and government can gain control over the
November 14, 2024
Ivory Coast will create a $500 million green finance fund to support sustainable growth initiatives, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement.
November 13, 2024
African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships
November 13, 2024
The U.N. political chief has accused allies of Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces of “enabling the slaughter” that has killed more than 24,000 people and created the world’s worst displacement crisis
November 13, 2024
Voters in Somaliland flocked to the polls on Wednesday to choose a president at a time when the breakaway Somali region sees international recognition within reach
November 13, 2024
Ghana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary speaker's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring the ruling party’s majority in the legislature ahead of the Dec. 7 election
November 12, 2024
Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told
November 12, 2024
Chad said on Tuesday it had approved the licensing of Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink to improve access to internet services in the central African country.
November 12, 2024
Ghanaian singer King Promise shares with CNN's Larry Madowo why he thinks Afrobeats as an umbrella for all popular African music can be a good and a bad thing.
November 12, 2024
Mauritius’ opposition coalition has won the country’s election by a landslide
November 12, 2024
African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril.
November 11, 2024
Senegal will have to wait until at least June to get any sort of resolution of its lending programme with the International Monetary Fund
November 11, 2024
The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda
November 11, 2024
The World Health Organization will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee next week to determine whether mpox remains a global health crisis, it said in a statement on Monday.
November 11, 2024
A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S.
November 11, 2024
Mauritius held a parliamentary election on Sunday in which Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his main rivals all promised to tackle a cost of living
November 09, 2024
Mozambique's largest hospital said on Friday that at least three people were killed and 66 injured during clashes between police and protesters the previous day over a disputed
November 08, 2024
Doctor Philip Moreira's commute to hospital on an electric bicycle is a dangerous, smog-infused weave through the chaotic traffic of Senegal's capital Dakar.
November 08, 2024
Thousands are protesting in Mozambique’s capital and police are responding by firing tear gas and rubber bullets as weeks of post-election unrest continued in the southern African country
November 07, 2024
Africa's main public health body said it is seeking assurances that U.S.
November 07, 2024
Mozambican police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters in the capital Maputo on Thursday during the biggest demonstration yet against the long-ruling Frelimo party, which was
November 07, 2024
The British government said on Thursday it had imposed its biggest sanctions package against Russia for 18 months, targeting people involved in the Ukraine war, African mercenary
November 07, 2024
An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said on
November 06, 2024
British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa
November 06, 2024
Ghana's consumer inflation rose for the second month in a row in October, to 22.1% year on year from 21.5% in September, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
November 06, 2024
Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on sex in government offices after private videos leaked on social media appeared to show a senior finance ministry official having sex
November 05, 2024
The International Monetary Fund has raised Ethiopia's net international reserves target to facilitate payments of upcoming hard currency bills, the Fund said.
November 05, 2024
Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's
November 04, 2024
Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of
November 04, 2024
Twenty-nine minors in Nigeria could be facing the death penalty
November 01, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Friday reported attacks on civilians by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces as
November 01, 2024
Nigeria charged 76 people, including 30 minors, with treason and inciting a military coup after they took part in deadly August protests against economic hardship,
November 01, 2024
Kenya's new Deputy President Kithure Kindiki was sworn in on Friday after a court lifted orders barring his inauguration following weeks of legal challenges by his predecessor, who
November 01, 2024
The party of Botswana’s opposition candidate Duma Boko has been declared the election winner over incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi in a seismic change that ended the ruling party’s 58 years in power since independence from Britain
November 01, 2024
Botswana's voters delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades, registering their anger over economic stagnation linked to a
November 01, 2024
Prince William’s roadshow for environmental innovation will arrive in South Africa next week as the heir to the British throne announces the winners of his annual Earthshot Prize, aimed at finding new ways to combat climate change and other threats to the planet’s air, water and wildlife
October 31, 2024
Mpox cases continue to spread on the African continent, showing an increase of over 500% from last year, data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
October 31, 2024
Kenya's high court on Thursday lifted orders barring the swearing-in of newly appointed deputy president Kithure Kindiki, whose predecessor has launched legal challenges over his
October 31, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has approved the seventh and eighth reviews of Kenya's program, the IMF said on Wednesday, paving the way for the cash-
October 30, 2024
Somalia has announced the expulsion of an Ethiopian diplomat, marking a further souring of relations between the neighbouring countries related to a port deal Addis
October 30, 2024
With fireworks displays, packed rallies, and town-to-town caravans, Senegalese political parties are wooing voters in a parliamentary race that
October 30, 2024
Botswana is holding a national election and voters are deciding if one of Africa’s longest-ruling parties stays on for another five-year term
October 30, 2024
Botswana started voting on Wednesday in an election that will determine whether President Mokgweetsi Masisi secures a second term, with slowing economic growth
October 30, 2024
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allies have committed "staggering" levels of sexual abuse, raping civilians as troops advance and abducting some women as sex
October 29, 2024
Nigeria based fintech Moniepoint has raised $110 million in new funding from investors including Google to scale up digital payments and banking solutions across Africa, the company
October 29, 2024
The U.N. chief says Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying hunger and disease for millions
October 28, 2024
Chad’s presidency says unidentified assailants have killed at least 40 soldiers during an overnight attack on a military base in the country’s west
October 28, 2024
Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad's Lake region over the weekend, the central African country's presidency said on Monday.
October 28, 2024
Botswana will hold a general election on Wednesday with President Mokgweetsi Masisi competing against three challengers for a second term in the diamond-rich
October 28, 2024
A doctors group and the United Nations say fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town
October 27, 2024
A senior United Nations official has called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war has pushed the African country to the brink of famine
October 25, 2024
Ivory Coast's former trade minister Jean-Louis Billon said on Friday he would seek the nomination of the opposition PDCI party for the country's 2025 presidential election,
October 25, 2024
Zimbabwe's consumer inflation surged to 37.2% month on month in October in local currency terms, data showed on Friday, after a sharp devaluation in the southern African
October 25, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Djibouti next week to attend a Turkey-Africa ministerial meeting and discuss improving cooperation between Ankara and the
October 25, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has announced plans to establish a commission to explore revisions to the country's constitution, potentially removing term
October 24, 2024
Moazmbique’s ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election amid claims of rigging by the opposition
October 24, 2024
Botswana holds a national election on Oct. 30, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi favourite to win a second term against three challengers in a nation his
October 24, 2024
Orange on Thursday reported third-quarter profit that was slightly ahead of market expectations, driven by a strong performance at its Africa and
October 24, 2024
Nigeria's decision this week to block Shell's $2.4 billion sale of its onshore assets has sent a negative signal to investors the country urgently needs to
October 23, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has reshuffled his 45-member cabinet, naming seven new ministers, sacking five and reassigning 10 others to new portfolios, a
October 23, 2024
Devastating rains that triggered deadly floods in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan in recent months were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists
October 23, 2024
Police in Uganda say least 11 people including children were killed when a fuel truck exploded next to a highway on Tuesday
October 22, 2024
European Union election observers have flagged irregularities in Mozambique’s election as the country awaits the announcement of official results this week
October 22, 2024
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked villages in the east of Sudan's El Gezira state, killing at least 25 people, following the defection of high-ranking RSF officer
October 22, 2024
In the popular imagination, coups d'etat are strictly military-led, palace conspiracies. In reality, a majority of them have required civilian participation.
October 22, 2024
Cameroon's 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, returned to the country on Monday after a 42-day absence that had sparked questions about his health and
October 21, 2024
Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur
October 21, 2024
Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas at the country's leading opposition politician and supporters as he spoke with reporters
October 21, 2024
Nigeria has approved the sale of Exxon Mobil Corp's onshore assets to Seplat Energy, the chief executive officer of the country's upstream regulator said on Monday, more than two
October 21, 2024
Mozambique police on Monday fired teargas and bullets at protesters in the capital Maputo who had gathered at the scene where two opposition party figures were shot dead on Saturday
October 21, 2024
Idris Elba is building an entertainment industry in Africa
October 20, 2024
Girl, 7, using friendship bracelets to raise money for domestic violence survivors
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