Africa

Local civil society groups and international observers indicate that over 120 children have been abducted in recent days by Al-Shabaab militants in the country.

Much of the continent's cropland growth during the period under review was driven by increases in staple crops, such as maize, rice and wheat, particularly in Western and Eastern Africa.

The World Bank adds that in the early 2000s, Africa enjoyed strong economic growth driven by high commodity prices and a surge in foreign capital inflows.

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist who engages with the histories and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism at home and, increasingly, internationally, on both sides of the Atlantic.

They were looted in 1897 when British forces led by Sir Henry Rawson invaded the Benin Kingdom, now part of southern Nigeria, and exiled its monarch, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, for six months.

In a statement, IGAD described the region as the largest refugee-hosting area in the world, currently sheltering over six million refugees and asylum seekers, about 20 per cent of the global total.

Nearly 13 million people have been uprooted from their homes in West and Central Africa. The UN Refugee Agency blames migration trends and conflict for creating a "perfect storm" of mass displacement.

The late president's family, citing unresolved grievances, declined to release his body from South Africa—despite earlier agreements—prompting the Zambian government to end the state-led commemoration.

The announcement marks a dramatic rupture with Lusaka, where President Hakainde Hichilema's administration had prepared for a state funeral with full honours.

The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reassured citizens that efforts are ongoing to locate and support any remaining Ugandans still in Iran.

Statistics show that nearly 1.2 million people have crossed into South Sudan since April 2023, straining already fragile systems amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

2024 saw a record 41,370 grave violations against children,the highest number verified in nearly 30 years of monitoring/

According to family spokesperson Makebi Zulu, the return was suspended after the Zambian government allegedly issued a funeral programme without consulting the family.

Patrice Lumumba was executed by a firing squad and his body was dissolved in acid. Only a gold-crowned tooth remained which Belgium formally returned to his family in 2022.

IOM’s search and rescue teams have been deployed to trace victims, while survivors have received urgent medical attention upon disembarkation.

65 per cent of all the attacks, explosions, and violence against civilians recorded between 2000 and 2024 were located within one kilometre of a road.

His family and the Zambian government have clashed over key burial arrangements, among them the choice of mourning venue.

Reports indicate that the draft list includes 26 African countries as well as nations from the Caribbean, Central Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Community health promoters (CHPs) have also been dealt a major blow after their budget was slashed by Sh1.4 billion.

The high-level gathering, hosted in collaboration with UN Tourism, brought together ministers, private sector leaders and development partners from across Africa to discuss innovation, education, and regional cooperation in tourism.

Brammertz demanded either the execution of the Mechanism’s arrest warrant and transfer of Kayishema into its custody or his trial within South Africa, in accordance with obligations under the Genocide Convention.

In recent years, Beijing has deepened cooperation with African countries across a spectrum from agriculture to infrastructure, consolidating its position as the continent's largest lender.

While the Zambian government has reportedly planned a state funeral and chosen official mourning venues, Lungu's family and his party, the Patriotic Front (PF), are insisting they be involved in the funeral arrangements.

AU Commission Chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf met with Ethiopia's foreign minister, Gedion Timothewos, on Monday to discuss preparations for the forthcoming summit.

The gathering of Africa's 55 ambassadors, who steer the Union's day-to-day affairs, set the tone for a series of high-level meetings, including next month's Executive Council session and the 7th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

The Libyan Presidency Council also issued a decision to form another committee responsible for monitoring human rights conditions inside detention centres and prisons

Together, these songs, stories, and testimonies reveal a practice of knowledge extraction in POW camps, yet they also provide deeper insights and reflections far beyond the sample sentences they were intended to capture.

Opening the rating committee to public view signals a shift in financial power, aiming not just for fairer ratings but for a more just model of global financial governance.

African bonds are substantially mispriced, resulting in excessively high yields that are not justified by fundamentals, based on economic, fiscal and institutional strengths.

Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and South Sudan are among the hardest-hit countries.

The groups are drawn to the sector due to perceived weak enforcement, inconsistent documentation, and regulatory loopholes along trade routes—all of which make it easier to insert illegally sourced gold into supply chains.

The West African nation, which entered the deal in 2007, says the agreement has disproportionately benefited European fishing fleets at the expense of its own economy and environment.

Nature reserve managers, rangers, international funders, and local non-profit organisations have invested millions of dollars in anti-poaching interventions.

Chad joins seven other African countries affected by Washington's travel ban.

His daughter, Tasila Lungu, confirmed his passing in a video posted on the Facebook page of the Patriotic Front (PF) party, the political outfit he led before his demise.

South Africa’s G20 presidency could link the ecological health of the continent’s forests with economic progress and social equity.

African nations say their outsized contribution to global peacekeeping demands fairer representation.

The 11-member panel of judges similarly elected Lady Justice Bensaoula Chafika of Algeria to replace Justice Sacko as Vice President.

Baine will assume her new position effective July 1, 2025, where she will be tasked with leading ATAF's efforts to strengthen tax systems across Africa while enhancing domestic resource mobilisation.

The two African nations will take up their roles in January 2026, serving a two-year term on the world’s most powerful decision-making body for peace and security.

This article traces the chronological and political moments behind Nairobi's dramatic turn on the Sahrawi cause—a founding member of the African Union—and how a seemingly quiet 2021 meeting between then-Deputy President William Ruto and Morocco's former envoy to Kenya, Mokhtar Ghambou, helped reshape Kenya's foreign policy trajectory.

The floods, described as the most severe the area has seen in 60 years, devastated the Mokwa districts of Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa following heavy rainfall.

The successful candidates will replace Lady Justice Imani Daud Aboud of Tanzania and Justice Modibo Sacko of Mali, whose respective terms as President and Vice President conclude on Monday. Aboud and Sacko have served two consecutive terms of two years each.

General Langley noted that the airstrikes have contributed to the degradation of Al-Shabaab, which has increasingly resorted to ambushes and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks as a result.

Tah, who officially begins his five-year term on September 1, 2025, brings over 35 years of financial and development experience, most recently leading the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa through a sweeping institutional transformation.

Addressing the situation in Sudan, the leaders urged greater cooperation to stop the influx of weapons and mercenaries, in line with the UN arms embargo.

The national holiday will now be marked annually on May 28, a date selected to coincide with the closure of German-run concentration camps in 1907 following international condemnation.

Cash transfers are among the most commonly used social protection tools designed to enhance nutritional outcomes for poor and vulnerable households.

Raquel Smith and her boyfriend, Jacquen Appolis, alongside their friend Stevano van Rhyn, were each handed life sentences for their involvement in the February 2024 disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, who vanished without a trace.

The evidence suggests that the heads of household among the Afrikaner 49 are drawn not only from that minority of Afrikaners who are totally unreconciled to democracy, but who – quite simply – are opportunists who have availed themselves of a short cut to emigrate.

Kenya's Chief of Defence Forces, General Charles Kahariri, noted that this year's meeting convenes at such a time when the regional and global security environment is becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.