A Swiss citizen working on a U.S.-funded aid project has been arrested in Burkina Faso, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland and a foreign official said on
August 27, 2024
Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week
August 27, 2024
Prosecutors are calling for for 50 people, including three Americans, to face the death penalty for what the Congolese army says was a coup attempt earlier this year
August 27, 2024
More than 31.8 million Nigerians are acutely short of food due to security challenges and the removal of fuel subsidies, the government said on Tuesday, citing a
August 27, 2024
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a visit to China next week to discuss cooperation on the economy, agriculture and satellite
August 27, 2024
At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, authorities say
August 27, 2024
Flooding kills scores as Sudan grapples with civil war
August 27, 2024
U.N. agencies on Tuesday raised the alarm about the spread of mpox in Democratic Republic of Congo's refugee camps where people are more susceptible to infection
August 27, 2024
Emergency responders were scrambling on Tuesday to find out how many people remain missing after waters burst through a dam in eastern Sudan, resulting in
August 27, 2024
Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought
August 27, 2024
A leading African scientist says the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease
August 27, 2024
A U.N. agency says that the collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend has flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people
August 27, 2024
A Tunisian court on Tuesday upheld an appeal by prominent opposition politician Abdellatif Mekki, allowing him to resume his bid for the presidency in an election expected on Oct. 6,
August 27, 2024
Officials in Spain say thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls
August 26, 2024
At least 30 dead after dam collapses in Sudan, UN agency says
August 26, 2024
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the
August 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement for Liberia on a new 40-month extended credit facility arrangement for $209 million, the IMF said in a statement
August 26, 2024
Kenyan police deployed to Haiti haven’t received full promised salary in two months
August 26, 2024
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu named new homeland security and foreign intelligence chiefs on Monday, a week after their predecessors resigned abruptly, as Africa's most populous
August 26, 2024
Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United
August 26, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo no longer expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccines this week, the head of its response team said on Monday, as Congo
August 26, 2024
A Nigerian judge will hear a money laundering case against crypto exchange Binance and two of its executives next week, more than a month earlier than planned, after
August 26, 2024
Hundreds of migrants took advantage of a thick mist to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday and early on Monday, local police said.
August 26, 2024
Denmark will close its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso after a series of military coups over the past few years, the Danish foreign ministry said on Monday, as it formally
August 26, 2024
Oilfields in eastern Libya that account for almost all the country's production will be closed and production and exports halted, the eastern-based administration
August 26, 2024
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