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Nigerians vote in election, hoping for better economic times

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-25 12:35:10

Nigerians go to the polls on Saturday to elect a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with many hoping the next leader will steer Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy on a new course...

Int’l financial crime watchdog adds South Africa, Nigeria to its ‘grey list’

-- 2023-02-24 19:24:19

International financial crime watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on Friday it was adding South Africa and Nigeria to its so-called "grey list" of countries under special scrutiny to...

Gunmen kill at least 12 civilians in central Mali village

-- 2023-02-24 17:44:57

Gunmen have killed at least 12 civilians in an attack on a village in central Mali, two officials said on Friday, the latest reported attack in an area rife with jihadist activity. The West African n...

Debt-laden African countries charged 'extortionate' rates, UN chief says

-- 2023-02-18 19:28:12

African countries are getting a raw deal from the international financial system which charges them "extortionate" interest rates, the UN chief said on Saturday, as he announced $250 million in crisis...

73 migrants presumed dead after shipwreck off Libya

-- 2023-02-15 19:15:28

At least 73 migrants were reported missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the official Twitter account of International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Li...

South Africa invokes disaster law to tackle energy crisis

Reuters 2023-02-10 14:12:51

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday declared a national "state of disaster" over his country's crippling power shortages, saying they posed an existential threat to the economy and soc...

Malawi cholera death toll crosses 1,300

-- 2023-02-09 20:26:59

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Malawi has crossed 1,300, a senior Malawian health official said on Thursday, as the southern African country battles its deadliest outbreak yet. As of Wedne...

Children accused of witchcraft find solace in east Congo shelter

Reuters 2023-02-08 17:44:19

After Ornella lost several family members within three years, relatives and neighbours in her east Congo village of Kabare began suspecting the 14-year-old girl of witchcraft. The hushed rumours and...

Hope for jobs drives recruitment by militant groups in Africa: UNDP

-- 2023-02-07 15:56:49

Hope of employment more than religious belief is driving people to join fast-growing extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) based on inter...

Eco-friendly Nigerian artist turns plastic flip-flops into portraits

Reuters 2023-02-05 17:04:05

What started as an assignment in college in 2017, has become a full time job for Konboye, whose studio in the city of Abeokuta in the southwest state of Ogun now trains aspiring artists who want to fo...

South Sudan violence kills 27 on the eve of pope's visit

-- 2023-02-03 17:16:50

Twenty-seven people were killed in South Sudan's Central Equatoria state in tit-for-tat violence between cattle herders and a members of a militia on the eve of a Friday visit to the country by Pope F...

What is driving the violence in eastern Congo?

-- 2023-02-01 17:01:05

A focus of Pope Francis' visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo is a meeting on Wednesday with around 60 victims of the decades of violence in the east of the country who have made the cross-countr...

Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

-- 2023-01-27 17:22:27

Heavy rainfall that followed the landfall of Tropical Storm Cheneso in Madagascar has killed 16 people and left 17 missing, the government's Office for Risk and Disaster Management said. The storm, w...

Visits to Zambia by Yellen, IMF reflect concern over stalled debt talks

-- 2023-01-23 17:36:55

Two of the world's most powerful finance officials are visiting Zambia this week, a reflection of the growing concern shared by Western officials about how China and other creditors are handling the A...

At least five killed in blast, attack near Mogadishu mayor's office

Reuters 2023-01-23 09:39:46

Islamist fighters set off a bomb then stormed a government building in Somalia's capital on Sunday, killing at least five civilians, the ministry of information said. Attackers from the al Shabaab gr...

Eritrean troops seen leaving Ethiopian town of Shire

Reuters 2023-01-22 09:57:21

Large numbers of Eritrean troops have left the town of Shire in Ethiopia's Tigray region where they fought in support of government forces during a two-year civil war, a resident and two humanitarian...

Over 60 kidnapped women, children freed in Burkina Faso

-- 2023-01-21 18:56:49

Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said on Fri...

Road crash in Senegal kills 19, wounds 24

-- 2023-01-16 17:11:02

Nineteen people were killed and 24 wounded in a road accident in Senegal early on Monday, President Macky Sall said, the second major crash this month highlighting poor driving conditions in the West...

Zimbabwe police arrest 25 opposition members ahead of presidential election

Reuters 2023-01-15 13:39:49

Zimbabwean police on Saturday fired teargas at an opposition party gathering in Harare and arrested 25 of its members, including two members of parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC...

Violence soars in Mali in the year after Russians arrive

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-15 10:42:23

Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded his village in central Mali, setting fire to houses and gunning down peo...

Tigray forces begin handing over heavy weapons to Ethiopian army

-- 2023-01-11 17:22:35

Tigray forces, who fought a two-year war against Ethiopia's federal government, began handing over heavy weaponry to the national army as part of an African Union-led peace process on Tuesday. The de...

Traffic in Suez Canal normal after ship breakdown dealt with

-- 2023-01-09 15:28:04

Shipping traffic in the Suez Canal was proceeding normally on Monday after tugs towed a cargo vessel that broke down during its passage through the waterway, the Canal Authority said. The breakdown w...

Gunmen kidnap 32 people from southern Nigeria train station

Reuters 2023-01-09 09:31:16

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria's southern Edo state, the governor's office said on Sunday. The attack is the latest example of the gr...

South Sudan: Six journalists held over footage of president appearing to wet himself

-- 2023-01-07 22:47:36

Six journalists in South Sudan have been arrested over the circulation of footage appearing to show President Salva Kiir wetting himself, media rights groups say. In December, a video shared on socia...

At least five African migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisia

-- 2023-01-07 19:28:19

At least five African migrants died and another 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said on Saturday. The coastguard...

Car bombs kill 15 in central Somalia

-- 2023-01-04 19:30:08

Two car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants killed at least 15 people and flattened homes in central Somalia's Hiraan region on Wednesday, a resident involved in the rescue operations said. It wa...

Two lawmakers in Senegal jailed for assaulting pregnant colleague

-- 2023-01-02 21:41:14

A court in Senegal sentenced two lawmakers on Monday to six months in jail for assaulting a pregnant colleague during an acrimonious parliamentary session last month that degenerated into a full-blown...

Cholera deaths surge in Malawi, keeping schools closed

-- 2023-01-02 17:55:43

Malawi has delayed the opening of public schools in the southern African country's two major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe, the health minister said Monday, to try to slow down a surge in cholera de...

US cuts off Burkina Faso from Africa duty-free trade programme

REUTERS 2023-01-02 14:09:03

The United States has dropped Burkina Faso from the AGOA trade preference programme for failing to meet the requirements of the AGOA statute, the US Trade Representative's (USTR) office said in a stat...

At least 20 people killed in clashes in Somaliland

-- 2023-01-02 11:12:46

At least 20 people have been killed in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces over several days, according to a doctor at a public h...