African leaders spearhead efforts to tackle terrorism across the continent
African leaders discussed anti-terrorism solutions on the continent during a high-level security summit in the Nigerian capital Abuja Monday amid…
African leaders discussed anti-terrorism solutions on the continent during a high-level security summit in the Nigerian capital Abuja Monday amid…
Five asylum seekers, including a child, have died while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded…
A Kenyan company is proving the saying: “one person’s waste is another person’s treasure,” still rings true. On a February…
Mauritania’s foreign minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug has held a session at the G7 foreign ministers where discussions that include…
Nigeria has said it is seeking up to 2.25 billion dollars in World Bank loans, in a statement by Finance…
South Africa’s battle-scarred former President Jacob Zuma is proving he still has a winning streak – recently scoring a hat-trick…
Olympic 200m silver medallist Christine Mboma says her enforced hiatus from athletics took a toll on her mental health, but…
South Africa’s electoral commission has appealed to the country’s Constitutional Court after judges this week overturned a ban on former…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a 15 million euro ($16.29 million) project funded…
FAO, through the support of the Government of Japan, has reached more than 70,000 vulnerable pastoral and agropastoral communities in…
South Africa’s special tribunal has ordered German multinational company SAP to pay back 500m rand ($26m; £20m) that the firm…
Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council member Gen Ibrahim Jabir Ibrahim has said that the military would form “a technocratic government” to…
Rwanda’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that proposes stricter regulations to protect forests in the country. The…
Thirty years after Nelson Mandela’s government took over and introduced a policy to build low cost houses in South Africa,…
Zambia has agreed to a revised deal to restructure more than $3.5bn (£2.7bn) of its international bonds with private investors.…
Malawi has declared a state of disaster over a severe drought that is affecting most of the country. The announcement…
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has failed in a legal bid to stop a newly formed party, backed…
The US Department of State says it is aware of the reports of the detention of its citizen in Abuja,…
A Nigerian court has sentenced a Chinese businessman to death after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Ummu Kulthum…
The authorities in Kenya have begun releasing the remains of some of those who died in a cult which allegedly…