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-- 2022-10-25 18:49:06
At least eleven students died and six others were in critical condition after a fire in a school for the blind in central Uganda, police said on Tuesday. The fire broke out around 1 a.m. at the Salaa...
-- 2022-10-24 18:05:45
A well-known Pakistani journalist, Arshad Sharif, was shot dead in Kenya when police hunting car thieves opened fire on the vehicle he was travelling in as it drove through their roadblock without sto...
-- 2022-10-19 18:54:34
Madagascar's president has fired his foreign affairs minister for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russian-organised referendums to annex four partially-occupied regions in Ukraine, two sources...
-- 2022-10-19 15:50:51
Illegal gold mining is destroying tracts of pristine rainforest in Congo's Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site meant to be a haven for the endangered mammal nicknamed Africa's unicorn...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 10:34:46
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and three others seriously injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali on Monday, a UN spokesperson said, Reuters...
-- 2022-10-15 16:30:43
Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, UN officials said on Friday, with more than 4 million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of...
-- 2022-10-15 13:49:04
Widespread flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, left around 90,000 homes under water and blocked food and fuel supplies, two government ministries said on Friday, Reuters reports...
-- 2022-10-07 17:01:30
Egypt must ensure the safety and full participation of all parts of civil society at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP27) in November, UN human rights e...
-- 2022-10-05 17:27:31
A Moroccan state agency has issued the first 10 permits for the use of cannabis in industry and medicine and for export, it said, the result of a law passed last year. Farmers who organise into coope...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 15:28:43
Brunei Darussalam Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah is scheduled for a state visit to Bangladesh from October 14 to 16. "This is going to be the first state visit by the Sultan of Br...
REUTERS 2022-10-04 15:15:56
Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet will go on strike starting this Thursday over a wage dispute, two labour unions said, in a move that could halt the export of key minera...
REUTERS 2022-10-04 13:20:11
Petrol prices in Sudan fell on Tuesday from 700 Sudanese pounds to 522 pounds ($0.9235) per litre, the country's energy ministry said in a statement following its monthly pricing review. Diesel price...
-- 2022-10-04 12:43:17
Petrol prices in Sudan fell on Tuesday from 700 Sudanese pounds to 522 pounds ($0.9235) per litre, the country's energy ministry said in a statement following its monthly pricing review. Diesel...
-- 2022-10-03 19:06:28
Somalia's government said one of the co-founders of Islamist militant group al Shabaab had been killed in a joint operation with international partners over the weekend, while the insurgents claimed r...
-- 2022-10-01 18:22:01
A Tanzanian doctor working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the first health worker killed by the disease in the latest outbreak in the country, Uganda's health minister said on Saturday, repo...
-- 2022-10-01 15:41:55
Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country t...
-- 2022-09-30 17:51:48
Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said. Sol...
-- 2022-09-29 15:31:28
In Khartoum, specialists from Sudan's Center for Poisonous Species Research are deployed at night in protective vests, gloves, and goggles to catch a snake that residents say has killed a cat, before...
-- 2022-09-28 19:22:57
At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, a Congo army spokesman who did not wish to be named told Reuters on Wednes...
REUTERS 2022-09-28 15:09:58
Nigeria faces worsening malnutrition in the northwest due to insecurity, high food prices and the impact of climate change, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday, calling for the region to be...
-- 2022-09-26 18:45:30
John first heard of cryptocurrency three years ago, when the teenager came across slick YouTube videos and Facebook posts of other South Africans claiming to have become wealthy overnight with bitcoin...
-- 2022-09-25 20:53:30
A gang of armed men killed at least 15 people at a mosque in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, residents said on Saturday. The attack in the Bukkuyum local government area took place during Friday p...
-- 2022-09-20 14:18:05
An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday....
-- 2022-09-19 18:37:57
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will miss the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, instead returning home from Britain to address a national power crisis, his spokesman told local...
-- 2022-09-18 17:14:45
Tunisia said on Saturday it is raising the price of cooking gas cylinders by 14 per cent and fuel by 3 per cent as part of a plan to reduce energy subsidies, a policy change wanted by the country&rsqu...
-- 2022-09-13 17:43:14
William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's fifth president on Tuesday, a week after the Supreme Court upheld an election that dashed the hopes of the nation's most prominent political families and handed po...
REUTERS 2022-09-13 13:39:48
An air strike hit the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Tuesday, an official at a hospital said. The air strike happened days after Tigray's regional government said it was ready for a...
-- 2022-09-11 17:23:10
As condolences poured in from around the world after Queen Elizabeth's death, there were mixed feelings among some Africans about the monarch and her country's colonial legacy on a continent where Bri...
-- 2022-09-11 09:57:34
Members of an Islamic State affiliate in Mali killed about 30 civilians in an attack this week on a town in a violence-plagued area bordering Burkina Faso and Niger, a coalition of pro-governmen...
-- 2022-09-06 17:13:35
Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by f...
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