OUAGADOUGOU: Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday in a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this...
OUAGADOUGOU: Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday in a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this...
LAGOS/ABUJA: Nigeria has slipped into a recession after its gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter, according to data released on...
Total coronavirus cases in Africa surpassed the 2 million mark on Wednesday despite the slow addition of reported infections compared to other regions...
Mogadishu: Two people died on Tuesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly...
Addis Ababa: Gunmen killed at least 34 people in a "gruesome" attack on a passenger bus in west Ethiopia, a part of the...
Addis Ababa: Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire...
Addis Ababa: Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to donate blood for troops fighting in the northern Tigray region, as officials...
Pretoria - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday warned of a second coronavirus wave following a surge of infections in a southern...
Khartoum: More than 8,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed west into neighbouring Sudan within 48 hours, state news agency...
Addis Ababa: The end of military operations in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray is "coming within reach", Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday,...
CAPE TOWN: South African researchers plan to release scores of abandoned, hand-reared African penguin chicks at the Western Cape's De Hoop nature reserve,...
Algiers - The health of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who contracted the Covid-19 disease, is "constantly improving", the presidency said Sunday in a...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sacked his army chief, head of intelligence and foreign minister on Sunday, as the military continued...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's military announced this week it had "entered into a war" with the northern region of Tigray, leading to fears of...
KHARTOUM: Sudan partially closed its border with Ethiopia, state news agency SUNA reported on Saturday, in the wake of escalating violence in the...
MOGADISHU: Having scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu's first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January. Its...
NAIROBI: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has extended the country's nightly curfew to Jan. 3 as part of a raft of measures to contain...
