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-- 2019-12-04 12:20:22
Twenty-three people were killed and more than 130 injured when a fire broke out after a gas tanker exploded while unloading at a ceramics factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday, the gover...
Reuters 2019-12-02 12:23:00
At least 24 Tunisians were killed on Sunday after a bus crashed during an excursion in the northern town of Amdoun, the health ministry said. The bus veered off a winding road when the driver failed...
-- 2019-12-02 10:55:52
At least 14 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in Burkina Faso. The victims were attending a service at a church in Hantoukoura, in the eastern part of the country on Su...
-- 2019-12-01 14:54:10
Namibia's president Hage Geingob has been re-elected for a second term, the country's electoral commission says. Mr Geingob polled 56.3 per cent in Wednesday's election, well ahead of his nearest riv...
Xinhua 2019-11-30 18:20:15
The Libyan Coast Guard on Friday rescued more than 200 migrants off the country's western coast, the International Organization for Migration in Libya (IOM Libya) said. "Over 200 migrants were just r...
-- 2019-11-29 18:21:12
Sudan has repealed a restrictive public order law that controlled how women acted and dressed in public. On Twitter, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok paid tribute to women "who have endured the atrociti...
-- 2019-11-29 10:53:21
Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law on Thursday to dissolve the former ruling party and repealed a public order law used to regulate women’s behaviour under ex-president Omar al-Bas...
Reuters 2019-11-26 18:26:41
Thirteen French soldiers were killed in Mali when their helicopters collided at low altitude as they swooped in to support ground forces engaged in combat with militants, the French army said on Tuesd...
-- 2019-11-24 17:55:27
Rescue workers pulled 18 bodies from the rubble after a plane crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo shortly after take-off on Sunda...
-- 2019-11-24 15:20:28
A passenger plane with about 17 passengers on board crashed on Sunday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in several deaths, the office of the provincial governor sa...
-- 2019-11-23 19:26:25
At least 24 people are reported to have died in landslides caused by severe weather in West Pokot county, Kenya. According to a BBC report, officials told local media that the bodies of at least 12 p...
-- 2019-11-23 12:23:06
A boat capsized off the coast of Morocco’s port of Tan Tan, 856 km (537 miles), south of capital Rabat, leaving two fishermen dead while at least nine others were still missing, the fisheries de...
Ibrahim Elbadawi and Jeffrey D. Sachs in Khartoum, Sudan 2019-11-19 20:56:19
On December 19, 2018, peaceful protests erupted spontaneously in cities across Sudan. Just four months later, the brave demonstrators succeeded in ousting the despotic regime of Omar al-Bashir, who ha...
-- 2019-11-19 10:55:39
Twenty-four soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants in eastern Mali, the country's army has said. Another 29 were also injured during a joint operation between troops from Mali and Niger...
-- 2019-11-16 13:54:30
South African Airways (SAA) and unions on Saturday met for talks the troubled state-run carrier hopes can bring an end to a crippling strike that it says could push it to collapse. Unions representin...
-- 2019-11-11 17:25:43
Gambia filed a case Monday at the United Nations’ highest court accusing Myanmar of genocide in its campaign against its Rohingya Muslim minority and asking the International Court of Justice to...
-- 2019-11-10 20:42:36
Congolese forces have killed the leader of an offshoot of a Hutu militia in the restive east of the country, the army said on Sunday, two months after killing the leader of the main faction, according...
-- 2019-11-08 13:32:10
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday welcomed the release of more than 100 illegal immigrants and refugees from a detention centre in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. "...
Reuters 2019-11-03 11:38:51
Islamic state has claimed responsibility for an attack in northeastern Mali that killed at least 53 soldiers, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday without citing evidence. Mali gov...
-- 2019-11-02 12:10:57
At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said. The attack is one of the deadliest strikes against the West...
-- 2019-10-26 14:11:18
The World Bank announced Friday a package of 150 million US dollars to support the Ghanaian government's project for improving the quality of education. The Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes...
-- 2019-10-23 11:04:36
Security forces in Burundi have killed at least 14 armed men who had intended to launch an attack in the northwestern province of Bubanza, police and residents said. The men, from the neighbouring De...
-- 2019-10-21 12:10:28
At least 24 people were killed in a traffic accident on Sunday near Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said local officials. A bus was travelling from Lufu to Kinshasa o...
-- 2019-10-20 20:24:16
Egypt on Saturday unveiled the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins with mummies inside discovered in the southern city of Luxor in the biggest find of its kind in more than a century. A team of Egyp...
-- 2019-10-20 14:39:08
Four soldiers and one police officer have been killed in two attacks on military outposts in northern Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe army said on Saturday. Raids by Islamist militants as well as clashes...
James Jeffrey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019-10-15 20:51:39
Ethiopia found itself in the global spotlight for all the right reasons after Abiy Ahmed, its young, dynamic prime minister. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Awarded since 1901 for outstanding cont...
-- 2019-10-13 13:44:51
At least ten Kenyan police were killed when their vehicle struck a homemade bomb near the border with Somalia on Saturday, according to a police report seen by Reuters. Police believe the device, for...
-- 2019-10-11 15:31:16
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. He was awarded the prize for his efforts to "achieve peace and international cooperation". Ethiopia reached a peac...
-- 2019-10-07 12:00:31
Rwandan security forces have killed 19 people who were part of a group that carried out a deadly attack in a tourist hub in the north of the country on Friday, a police spokesman said. The assailants...
-- 2019-09-27 15:03:31
Burkina Faso has obtained a loan of 33 million US dollars to fund presidential and emergency programmes on the Sahel region, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development said. It said the financi...
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