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-- 2018-03-26 11:08:05
Egyptians begin three days of voting on Monday to elect a new president in an election expected to produce a landslide for the sitting president. There are few doubts that incumbent Abdul Fattah al-S...
-- 2018-03-25 14:23:12
Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in a bomb attack that targeted the local security chief two days before a presidential election. Five other people were wounded by the b...
-- 2018-03-25 12:39:16
Congo’s military said it had killed 13 militiamen during clashes with an unidentified group after coming under attack in the country’s volatile northeastern Ituri province. Ituri is the l...
-- 2018-03-24 21:00:46
The actions of mankind could lead to the extinction of half of African birds and mammals by the end of 2100, a UN-backed study has said. The report conducted by 550 experts from around the world said...
-- 2018-03-24 11:20:06
The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will not attend a donor conference in Geneva next month, complaining the country is being given ‘a bad image’. The meeting aims to raise nearly $1...
-- 2018-03-23 21:55:58
Egyptian government has launched a social media platform similar to Facebook, called EgFace, says a report on BBC on Friday citing Lebanese news site An-Nahar. The site appears to have been built in...
-- 2018-03-22 21:32:43
At least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded in a car bomb blast near a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Somali officials said Thursday. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the explosion occurre...
-- 2018-03-22 11:50:55
Libya is not ready to hold free and fair elections, campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. The country’s rival authorities are planning to hold parliamentary and presidential elect...
-- 2018-03-21 14:37:51
Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Dapchi last month have been brought back on Wednesday, two witnesses said. The witnesses said the girls were returned by people they tho...
-- 2018-03-21 11:59:21
A sixteen-year-old boy has refused to take the role of deputy commissioner of a regional state in Somalia over security fears. Faysal Abdullahi Omar was to take up the role in Jowhar, the headquarter...
-- 2018-03-20 12:19:19
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who failed to return $827m (£590m) illegally stashed abroad despite an amnesty. Aft...
-- 2018-03-19 11:44:55
Two rival Somali clans have signed up to a groundbreaking peace deal which aims to end the cycle of revenge killings. Following three weeks of mediation, the rival Sa’ad Yoonis and Ba’iid...
-- 2018-03-18 19:56:43
Zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Robert Mugabe's long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday. The polls...
-- 2018-03-18 15:56:20
At least 15 people were killed and scores injured in heavy rains and flooding, Kenya‘s Daily Nation said on Friday. The rains had pounded parts of the east African nation over three days, the n...
-- 2018-03-18 14:54:41
Morocco has proposed using 14 stadiums and budgeting to spend 15.8 billion dollars on infrastructure if it wins the right to host the World Cup soccer finals in 2026, the country’s bid committee...
-- 2018-03-17 11:38:31
The outgoing president of Botswana has attacked his US counterpart Donald Trump for ‘encouraging poaching’ by overturning a ban on the import of hunting trophies. Speaking at an anti-poac...
-- 2018-03-16 20:40:57
Former South African president Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption on Friday over a $2.5 billion state arms deal, a stunning judicial ruling on a continent where political ‘Big Men’ rar...
-- 2018-03-16 15:13:09
Mauritian Prime Minister said on Thursday it is deplorable that the country’s ceremonial president has failed to follow through on an agreement to resign over a scandal triggered by accusations...
-- 2018-03-15 13:43:23
Libya has issued 205 arrest warrants for Libyans and foreigners suspected of being involved in a smuggling network for migrants heading to Europe. They include accusations of human trafficking, tortu...
-- 2018-03-14 11:34:23
Thirty-eight people have died in Ethiopia after the bus in which they were travelling, plunged off a cliff, officials say. The accident occured in Legambo district in the country’s Amhara regio...
-- 2018-03-13 13:32:07
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to an ally in the fight against Islamist militant groups in West Africa....
-- 2018-03-13 12:45:09
Exiled Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi vowed to return to Democratic Republic of Congo by June to lodge his candidacy for a presidential election to replace President Joseph Kabila, currentl...
FE Online Desk 2018-03-12 10:26:20
At least 16 people were killed and 140 others injured in Rwanda when lightning struck a Seventh Day Adventist church in the country's south, a provincial governor says. The churchgoers were injured a...
-- 2018-03-11 11:23:45
International charity ships and Libya’s coastguard picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy. Li...
-- 2018-03-10 12:17:04
Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Africa’s only female head of state, is to step down over a financial scandal. She has been accused of using a credit card issued by an international non...
-- 2018-03-09 20:24:25
More than two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the risk of dying from starvation, said the United Nations on Friday. UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two million...
-- 2018-03-09 12:50:16
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday his country was pursuing military cooperation with Zimbabwe and looking at opportunities in the diamond sector as well as fully implementing a...
-- 2018-03-08 13:37:12
South African city of Cape Town will not have to turn off water supplies if current consumption levels are maintained, the region’s governing party has said. Amid a drought, the city had set a...
-- 2018-03-07 13:48:40
At Sweet Waters, a village in central Kenya, Veronicah Nyambura stands under the hot sun between two fields. One is full of lush plants - but the other has crops so wilted that their leaves have curle...
-- 2018-03-06 14:36:08
Herders in Tanzania are killing more than 200 lions every year according to a conservationist at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute. Dennis Ikanda says given the global status of lions, an interven...
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