Congo's health ministry says at least 930 people have died in the country's Ebola outbreak
July 20, 2026
Sao Tome and Principe President Carlos Vila Nova has won a second five-year term, according to preliminary results from the election commission announced on Monday.
July 20, 2026
Jose Simao arrived in Portugal from Angola in 2022 to work as a bricklayer, part of a wave of immigration providing a welcome boost to the country's
July 20, 2026
Sao Tome and Principe is voting in a presidential election on Sunday, with incumbent Carlos Vila Nova seeking a new five-year term in the small, cocoa-producing island
July 19, 2026
Islamic militants and a separatist group have ambushed a Malian army convoy in the north, resulting in the killing or capture of scores of soldiers
July 18, 2026
Authorities report at least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers during Congo's Ebola outbreak
July 18, 2026
Jamaica’s government says two of its three citizens recently deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini have formally declined offers to be repatriated to the Caribbean nation
July 18, 2026
The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on leaders of armed groups operating in eastern Congo including Rwandan-backed AFC/M23 rebels and the Democratic
July 17, 2026
Twenty schoolchildren died when the bus carrying them crashed on the way back from a trip to some waterfalls in eastern Uganda late on Thursday, authorities said.
July 17, 2026
A school bus accident in Uganda has killed at least 20 children and one adult
July 17, 2026
To air or not to air
July 17, 2026
Nigeria has completed the voluntary evacuation of 1,490 citizens from South Africa following a series of xenophobic attacks, its foreign ministry
July 16, 2026
Uganda discharged its last remaining Ebola patient on Thursday, triggering a 42-day countdown after which it can be declared free of the virus, the East African nation's
July 16, 2026
Amazon's low-earth orbit satellite internet venture Amazon Leo has signed an agreement with South Africa's Herotel to launch a new broadband service
July 15, 2026
Authorities say a boat carrying about 60 migrants, including women and children, bound for European shores capsized off the coast of eastern Libya in the latest maritime tragedy off the North African country
July 15, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo has formed a new advisory council that includes senior war crimes lawyers from the United States and Europe to
July 15, 2026
G7 foreign ministers and the European Union's foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to stop all actions that could
July 15, 2026
Nigeria plans to take on a bigger role in coordinating humanitarian responses inside the country, as it shifts away from a system led largely by international donors and U.N
July 15, 2026
The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief has warned that most Ebola cases in eastern Congo come from unknown transmission chains
July 14, 2026
Former Senegalese President Macky Sall will travel to Senegal on Friday, his first public visit to the country since leaving office as he campaigns for the post of U.N.
July 14, 2026
Sudan risks sliding backwards into deeper hunger as conflict, aid funding cuts and rising agricultural costs driven by disruption linked to the Iran
July 14, 2026
The World Health Organization has received less than half the funding it needs to fight the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a WHO official said on
July 14, 2026
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July 14, 2026
The mystical, secret island paradise in the middle of Africa’s largest lake
July 14, 2026
Dozens of workers at an Ebola treatment center in northeast Congo have gone on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses
July 13, 2026
A man arrested in Johannesburg on Friday who is suspected of murdering his wife and two daughters in Britain bought an unlicensed gun, possibly to kill himself, South
July 13, 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to two more northeastern provinces, Haut-Uele and Tshopo, the country's public health institute said in its
July 13, 2026
The Nigerian government has announced the rescue of students abducted by militants in Oyo state in May
July 11, 2026
South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams has died
July 11, 2026
US citizen working in DR Congo tests positive for Ebola
July 11, 2026
At least 39 schoolchildren and six teachers kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's southwestern Oyo state nearly two months ago have been rescued by security forces, a
July 11, 2026
A cholera outbreak in Sudan could get worse as war, displacement and the onset of the rainy season threaten to exacerbate a humanitarian crisis in the
July 10, 2026
Senegal's top court has struck down changes to the country's constitution that would have altered the balance of power in government, ruling against an amendment adopted by
July 10, 2026
Frustrations over unemployment, crime and years of weak growth are driving South Africa's anti-migrant protests.
July 10, 2026
African countries have secured $900 million in new financial commitments to expand access to clean cooking
July 10, 2026
The Sudanese army has conditioned any broad acceptance of a U.S. proposal for ending the country's three-year-old civil war on the full withdrawal by the
July 10, 2026
Russia is ready to help Mozambique eliminate the "terrorist threat" it faces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday, the state TASS news agency reported.
July 09, 2026
Kenya's economy is expected to expand 4.3% this year and 4.4% in 2027, the World Bank said on Thursday, with this year's forecast being 0.6 percentage
July 09, 2026
Ebola response workers in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests outside three
July 09, 2026
New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government
July 09, 2026
Zambia is gearing up for an August election in which President Hakainde Hichilema is favoured to win a second term but may face a strong challenge from
July 09, 2026
Russia and the West African countries making up the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) - Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso - have pledged to strengthen military cooperation as
July 09, 2026
ِِA "breakthrough" has been made in the investigation into crimes committed during Sudan's war in the Darfur region allowing prosecutors to link them
July 09, 2026
France and Morocco meet in a World Cup quarter-final on Thursday with their post-colonial ties coursing through the fixture, from Morocco players born and
July 09, 2026
Turkey put on a red-white-and-blue air show and named a new airport building after President Donald Trump, seeking
July 09, 2026
Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a policy of sending them to third countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on
July 09, 2026
Sudan's RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured
July 08, 2026
Spanish Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, who is also the Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, has suspended himself after being accused of molesting women, the Vatican said
July 08, 2026
South African police said on Tuesday the death of a Nigerian man in custody late last month had nothing to do with a surge in anti-migrant violence and that he
July 07, 2026
Cal Fire reopens Ramona Air Attack Base with new aircraft and faster refueling upgrades
99-year-old woman being remembered, after collision on morning walk
US firms in Europe broadly see stable transatlantic ties a year on from trade deal
Goldman Sachs Alternatives buys control of Italian medtech firm Numantec
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist behind the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81
Comic book artist returns to Comic Con for 35th year
Two brothers show the world that autism is no barrier to independence