Cotonou, Benin: Benin's government on Sunday said that it had thwarted an attempted coup, after a group of soldiers announced on state television...
Cotonou, Benin: Benin's government on Sunday said that it had thwarted an attempted coup, after a group of soldiers announced on state television...
Johannesburg, South Africa: Gunmen stormed a hostel in South Africa's capital Pretoria on Saturday, killing 11 people including a three-year-old child, police said....
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's Ministry of Health has announced that it is set to start administering Marburg virus vaccine to contain an outbreak of...
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday justified the killing of protesters during recent election unrest, saying it was necessary...
Abuja, Nigeria: Nigeria's defence minister has resigned, the presidency said on Monday, as the country reeled from a security crisis including mass kidnappings...
Kinshasa: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has declared the end of its 16th Ebola outbreak. Congolese Health Minister Roger Kamba said, "To...
Paris, France: French oil group TotalEnergies said Monday it was selling a 40-percent stake in Nigerian offshore exploration licences to a subsidiary of...
Port Sudan: Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al Burhan, met on Sunday with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Personal...
Brazzaville: Guinea-Bissau's ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville on Saturday, days after he was overthrown by...
Bissau: Military officials in Guinea-Bissau said they had seized "total control" of the coup-prone west African country Wednesday, arresting its president, closing its...
Papiri, Nigeria: Parents of dozens of children kidnapped last week from a Catholic school in Nigeria are desperate for their release, with one...
Addis Ababa: A volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern region erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up...
Addis Ababa: The death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg virus disease outbreak has risen to five, the country's Ministry of Health has said. In...
Bissau, Voters in Guinea-Bissau cast their ballots Sunday to pick a new president, hoping to turn the page on endemic political turmoil despite...
Johannesburg: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa opened a G20 summit in Johannesburg on Saturday by emphasising the need for "multilateralism" to confront "the...
Lagos: A Christian group on Saturday said 315 students and teachers were seized a day earlier in Nigeria's second mass school abduction in...
Naivasha, Kenya: Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly...
Doha, Qatar: The Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, a global education and development organisation, with the support of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD),...
