Africa

Congo Army spokesman on Wednesday confirmed the death of 22 people after two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in East DRC. Uganda had sent troops to its central African neighbour in December to help fight a violent rebel group known…

Basketball’s world governing body has opened an investigation after players on the Mali women’s team were filmed physically fighting one another following their World Cup loss to Serbia in Sydney. The scuffle between Salimatou Kourouma…

At least five people, including two children, died on Monday after a six-storey building collapsed in a town on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, a senior official said. The building, which was under construction in Kiambu, caved…

A Burkina Faso court has found three former presidential guards guilty of involvement in the 1990 murder of a student leader, and sentenced them to terms of 10 to 30 years in prison. The three elite members of former President Blaise…

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa will miss the United Nations General Assembly this week, instead returning home from Britain to address a national power crisis, his spokesman told local media. It was learned that the…

Senegal President Macky Sall on Saturday named a new prime minister a position he abolished in 2019 and reinstated last year after July’s tense legislative elections. A presidential decree named Amadou Ba, a former foreign minister, as…

Some Religious clerics in the ECOWAS sub-region have identified dialogue and the establishment of an inter-faith body in member states as crucial to strengthening religious tolerance in the sub-region. The clerics made this known at the…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived in Nairobi, to represent Nigeria at the Kenyan presidential inauguration. The event, which comes up on Tuesday at Kasarani Stadium, Nairobi, will be Kenya’s fifth presidential inauguration.…

Following his narrow victory in a fiercely contested but generally peaceful election, William Ruto was inaugurated as Kenya's fifth president since independence on Tuesday in a ceremony laden with pomp and circumstance. At a jam-packed…

Renewed conflict in the north, crippling drought and stubbornly high inflation: Ethiopians rang in their new year on Sunday with little to celebrate. At a livestock market in the capital Addis Ababa, traders and visitors alike bemoaned the…