Few recent meetings had been as highly anticipated as the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, of the Shanghai…

Kyiv, Ukraine – Oleksiy Savchenko stopped speaking his mother tongue the day Russia invaded Ukraine. “Before the invasion, I was a Russian speaker,” the former businessman told Al Jazeera, in…

President Ruto says subsidies have been costly and prone to abuse, including causing artificial shortages of subsidised products. Kenya has scrapped a subsidy on petrol a day after new President…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) September 30, 2022 elective congress has been put on hold by a high court in Abuja. Hon. Justice Inyang Ekwo at about 9.45am on Thursday…

When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt. On that day…

The scandal around Ramaphosa erupted in June after South Africa’s former national spy chief, Arthur Fraser, filed a complaint with the police. South Africa’s Parliament has appointed an independent panel…

Stolen during the colonial era, dozens of bronzes that once decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria will go on show for one last time…

The release comes on the heels of a pre-negotiation parley held for months in Doha by the Qatari emirate with Chad’s envoys and more than 300 rebel groups. A jailed…

The fishing community in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province say they are worried about the presence of foreign trawlers carrying out illegal fishing in the area. They expressed fears to the…

In his part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Orientale province, many like 16-year-old student Kalimo now get by selling handcrafted dioramas of traditional Wagenya life to the few…

Angolan President João Lourenço will be sworn in for a second term on Thursday after narrowly winning the country’s tightest elections. His MPLA party has ruled the country since independence…

Four men have been imprisoned for life after being convicted of rape in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa. The state’s high court in the town of Birnin-Kudu found them guilty…

The Ondo state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has announced the death of his mother, Lady Evangelist Grace Akeredolu who died at the age of 90-year. In a statement by the Chief…

Kenya’s President William Ruto deleted a tweet revoking Kenya’s long-standing recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) following a meeting with Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. “Kenya rescinds its…

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has suspended the country’s chief state prosecutor with immediate effect – barely two days after she told the BBC that herlife was in danger. Lillian Siyunyi,…

Rumbek, South Sudan – “There are times when I feel so hungry that I think going to school would be a waste,” says 15-year-old Martha*, as she packs her maths…

Ivory Coast’s top security organ held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday chaired by President Alassane Ouattara on the situation of the 46 Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since 10 July.…

The European Union has said drone strikes in a major city in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, endanger “a very fragile hope” for peace.The Tigray’s People Liberation Front blamed the Ethiopian government…

The federal government Wednesday described as illegal the blockage of Lagos-Ibadan expressway by members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to protest the ongoing strike by lectures under…