The RSF, which denies carrying out drone attacks and did not respond to a request for comment, has targeted power stations in army-controlled location...

The IPO is part of the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's broader plan to expand private investment in the Horn of Africa economy.

Douglas Dunia Masumbuko, the M23-appointed South Kivu governor, told Reuters on Thursday that the death toll at the Luhihi mine had reached 10 "and co...

Al-Shabaab, which has waged an insurgency in Somalia since 2007 to seize power, said in a statement that its fighters had captured the base and Wargaa...

Chadema party Deputy Chairperson John Heche and Secretary-General John Mnyika were detained as they headed to Kisutu Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam...

Full details are yet to be revealed but, as with her compatriot's 1:59:40.2 marathon in Vienna in 2019, she is likely to be aided by "in and out" pace...

Zelensky on Wednesday said there needed to be an immediate, full and unconditional ceasefire with Moscow, repeating that Ukraine did not rule out any...

Among the projects, China is helping fund the development of a modern railway line from the port of Mombasa into the hinterland.

Each side released the same statement separately after their delegations departed Qatar earlier in the week, following more than a week of discussions...

More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are gravely short of food, including 3 million displaced by conflict and extreme weather conditions, as well a...

A continent where religion permeates most aspects of private and public life, Africa is where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fastest, according...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have scheduled a closed online meeting on Wednesday to talk wit...

The Vatican on Tuesday released photographs of Francis dressed in his vestments and lying in a wooden coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residenc...

The international community is at a “critical inflexion point,” the UNODC said, urging that failure to address the problem would have “unprecedented c...

Younish Al-Khatib, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent, said he did not consider the measures taken by the Israeli military, which reprimanded on...

An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door gathering of cardinal...

Machar's detention under house arrest, for trying to stir up a rebellion through his supposed support for the White Army militia in Upper Nile, has ig...

The pope's camerlengo (chamberlain), Cardinal Kevin Farrell, officially confirms the death. He then seals the pope's private apartment and prepares th...

Francis brought the Catholic Church's dialogue with Islam to new heights in 2019 by becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula, but conser...

He was 88, and had recently survived a serious bout of double pneumonia.

The paramedics and other rescue workers were shot dead on March 23 near the southern Gaza city of Rafah and buried in a shallow grave.

Hellen Obiri will bid to become the first Kenyan woman to win three Boston Marathons in a row after picking up bronze at the Paris Games and finishing...

Other protesters waved Palestinian flags while wearing keffiyeh scarves, chanting "free Palestine" and expressing solidarity with Palestinians killed...

The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group - two years into its conflict with Sudan's army - seized the massive camp in North Darfur a week ago in an...

Rights groups say President Kais Saied has had full control over the judiciary since he dissolved parliament in 2021 and began ruling by decree.

The boat was carrying as many as 500 passengers, including women and children, when it overturned in the Congo River

Lissu, runner-up in the country's 2020 presidential election, was charged with treason last week over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on th...

If successfully enacted, the new law could allow the government to take Besigye back to a military court martial.

They say the land was gifted to them in 1986 by Eastern Produce Kenya. EPK, which is majority owned by London-listed Camellia Plc, says the gift was f...

This suggests the planet may be teeming with microbial life, the researchers said. They stressed, however, that they are not announcing the discovery...

The cash goes straight to the roads board, which conducts maintenance of roads on behalf of the government. Ruto's government has also turned to China...

The town attacked on Wednesday, Adan Yabaal, lies around 245 kilometres north of Mogadishu and has been used as an operating base for raids on Al-Shab...

The agreement is widely seen as a victory for the global health agency at a time when multilateral organisations like the WHO have been battered by sh...

Africa's leading gold producer is shifting away from a system in which local and foreign companies with export licences can buy and export gold from a...

CHADEMA failed to sign an election code of conduct document, making it ineligible to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls expected in Octo...

The RSF seized control of the camp on Sunday after a four-day assault that the government and aid groups have said left hundreds dead or wounded.

Sudan's foreign minister has written to Lammy to complain, saying Sudan should have been invited, while criticising the presence of the UAE and Kenya.

The sources said Hamas had stuck to its position that any agreement must lead to an end to the war in Gaza.

A week after seizing power in 2023, Nguema publicly dressed down the heads of public agencies, ordering them to return any stolen money within 48 hour...

Most farmers in central regions said they were worried as plantations had not yet received enough moisture in the crucial month of April to help beans...

Tens of thousands of camp residents have fled to al-Fashir on foot, overwhelming shelters, and are now sleeping outdoors without food, water, or medic...

Under a constitution approved last November, Nguema's election win gives him a seven-year term, renewable once.

The Palestinian foreign ministry and Hamas condemned the attack at Al-Ahli, and said in a statement that Israel was destroying Gaza's healthcare syste...

The toll from the clashes was not immediately clear. A government statement on Saturday night said 52 people had been killed in and around Goma, thoug...

The first wave of multiple attacks began on Thursday, according to a release from advocacy group the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Ref...

The deal to turn 140 km (87 miles) of single-lane road into a multilane highway linking the capital Nairobi to Nakuru was signed in Paris in 2020 duri...

That uncompromising approach has seen Lissu, a former presidential candidate, detained numerous times and face charges such as sedition. Analysts say...

Last week, the Trump administration announced tariffs of 21%, the highest in West Africa, on the Ivory Coast as part of higher targeted duties on doze...

The conversations took place over separate video calls on Thursday in which China discussed strengthening bilateral economic and trade cooperation wit...

After two years of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, some people are returning to Khartoum after they were...

The UAE has repeatedly dismissed the filing of the case as a political game and have argued the ICJ, also known as the World Court, has no legal power...

The charge will bring fresh scrutiny to President Samia Suluhu Hassan's human rights record as she bids for re-election.

Members of both delegations confirmed their presence in the Qatari capital and said there was a face-to-face meeting on Wednesday, but they were still...

Lissu has been holding rallies countrywide in recent weeks under the slogan "No Reforms, No Election" to call for reforms in the way the election will...

Experts have warned that the cuts - including the cancellation of more than 90% of USAID's contracts - could cost millions of lives in the coming year...

Joseph Szlavik-Soto, a lobbyist working for Kinshasa, said the Congolese had also agreed to pay for the damage caused by protesters who attacked the U...

The deaths represent a major loss for the park, which has been working to increase the number of hippos in recent decades after poaching and war reduc...

The deceased included a popular singer, a provincial governor, and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel, authorities said.

Eritrean forces fought in support of Ethiopia's federal army during that conflict, but relations between the long-time rivals have since soured over a...

Nguema, who initially promised to hand back power to civilians, declared himself head of the transitional government and last month announced his cand...

US President Donald Trump's administration has taken aggressive measures to increase immigration enforcement, including the repatriation of people dee...

The streets, now strewn with debris and remnants of conflict, led him to a structure that was barely standing after two years of fighting between the...

Even before the aid cuts led by the United States, things were backsliding in some countries, and progress has slowed globally since 2016, the report...

The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow grave where their bodies were found a week later by offi...

US President Donald Trump's administration has taken aggressive measures to ramp up immigration enforcement, including the repatriation of people deem...

Their 2004 album "Dimanche a Bamako" (Sunday in Bamako) put them on the international map and the 2008 release "Welcome To Mali" was nominated for the...

The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours, Uganda and Burundi, also have troops in the region.

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher spent Friday night in Myanmar's second-biggest city, Mandalay, near the epicentre of the quake, posting on X tha...

The plaintiffs allege that Facebook's recommendation systems amplified violent posts in Ethiopia during the Tigray war.

During a period from about 14,500 to 5,000 years ago, it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life.

President Donald Trump's administration pulled out of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change for the second time earlier this year and also wi...

Saudi Aramco, Emirates National Oil and Abu Dhabi National Oil will continue to supply gasoline, diesel, kerosene and jet fuel to the East African nat...

M23 has seized eastern Congo's two largest cities in a swift advance since January that has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of tho...

Thousands of people at a rally calling for Yoon's ouster, including hundreds who had camped out overnight, erupted into wild cheers on hearing the rul...

The Democratic Republic of Congo, which has vast reserves of cobalt, lithium and uranium, among other minerals, has been fighting M23 rebels who have...

Trump is not imposing his new 10% global tariff rate on top trading partners Canada and Mexico while his previous order remains in place for up to 25%...

The RSF has claimed to have downed planes used by the army previously, including a transport plane that came down in northern Darfur in October.

In July 2024 the junta presented a draft of a new constitution which may allow Doumbouya to participate in the next presidential election.

The AU delegation's flight arrived at Juba's airport on Wednesday afternoon with a "Council of the Wise" which included former Burundian President Dom...

Kenya, which is struggling with a heavy debt load and the accompanying high debt service costs, caught investor attention last month when it ditched t...

The Americans were among some 50 people, including US, British, Canadian, Belgian and Congolese citizens, who stood trial last year following the botc...

Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing said the death toll from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake reached 2,719 as of Tuesday morning and was expected to...

President Donald Trump has pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters and accused them of supporting Hamas, being antisemitic and posing for...

Qatar hosted a second round of talks between the two countries beginning on Friday and met separately with M23 representatives. Congolese officials an...

MSS spokesperson Jack Ombaka confirmed that two officers had been evacuated to the Dominican Republic for medical care.

The civil war in Myanmar, where the junta seized power in a coup in 2021, has complicated efforts to reach those injured and made homeless by the Sout...

Major League Soccer has now decided to take full control of matchday security and Cheuko will only be permitted in the locker room and mixed zones.

The formation of the Convention for the Popular Revolution (CPR) by Thomas Lubanga comes as Congo's army faces an unprecedented advance by M23 rebels...

Besides the refinery deal, Uganda and UAE investors also signed five other agreements in various sectors.

Speaking to reporters later on Sunday on Air Force One, Trump said he is going to make a decision on the secondary tariffs based on whether Tehran mak...

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party said in January it wanted to extend Mnangagwa's term in office by two years until 2030.

The virus, which is carried by rodents and was first recognised in 1969 in the northeastern state of Borno, has killed thousands of people over the ye...

A civil war in the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power in a coup in 2021, was complicating efforts to reach those injured and...

The International Criminal Court secured its first conviction against Lubanga in 2012 on charges of recruiting child soldiers and sentenced him to 14...

The quake devastation has piled more misery on Myanmar, which was already in chaos from a civil war that grew out of a nationwide uprising after a 202...

Syria's new Sunni authorities have been under pressure from the West and Arab countries to form a government that is more inclusive of the country's d...

The junta chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, warned that the number of fatalities could go up and his administration faced a challenging situation...

The RSF leader conceded in an audio message on Telegram that his forces had left the capital last week as the army consolidated its gains.

The 7.7-magnitude quake, one of Myanmar's strongest in a century, jolted the Southeast Asian nation on Friday, leaving 1,644 people dead, 3,408 injure...

Trump's administration withdrew from the WHO upon taking office in January, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and o...