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-- 2022-05-13 14:05:33
The families of eight missing miners in Burkina Faso desperately awaited news from rescue teams continuing on Thursday to locate the men who have been stuck underground for 26 days. There has been no...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-13 09:48:18
At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday, amid a steady increase in migrants attempting reach US shores in dang...
-- 2022-05-06 21:24:47
Uganda's central bank is considering whether to issue a digital currency and has not banned cryptocurrencies, but has concerns about risks from the technology including consumer protection and financi...
-- 2022-05-02 14:08:13
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged debt relief for African countries and more investment to help their economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and weather the impacts of the Uk...
-- 2022-04-29 20:14:32
South Africa may be entering a fifth Covid-19 wave earlier than expected after a sustained rise in infections over the past 14 days that seems to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants, h...
-- 2022-04-27 20:09:41
The Democratic Republic of Congo has kicked off Ebola vaccinations to stem an outbreak in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Two people are known t...
-- 2022-04-20 14:29:27
Three people were killed and 19 injured after an explosion at a crowded market in Nigeria's Taraba state in the east of the country, local police said on Wednesday. Nigeria is plagued by insecurity a...
-- 2022-04-19 10:30:46
Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. A week after the...
-- 2022-04-17 20:31:29
Floods have killed more than 400 and caused at least 10 billion rand ($684.58 million) in damage in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), a senior provincial official said on Sunday, as rescuers hunted for the missing...
-- 2022-04-16 20:51:25
A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the UN migration agency said Saturday. The shipwreck took place Friday off the western Libyan city...
-- 2022-04-15 19:16:15
South African authorities were releasing emergency funds on Friday to help tens of thousands of people left without shelter, water and power, after flash floods washed away homes and roads and killed...
-- 2022-04-15 18:11:21
At least 32 people died Thursday night when a bus carrying members of the Zion Christian Church was involved in an accident in Chipinge, southeastern Zimbabwe.State broadcaster ZBC reported Friday tha...
-- 2022-04-15 18:00:36
A devastating flood in South Africa's eastern coastal province earlier this week has left at least 341 people dead, the government said on Thursday, as rescuers continued to hunt for missing people am...
-- 2022-04-14 11:54:42
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged on Wednesday to help the victims of devastating east coast floods, as the death toll rose to 306 from heavy rains that washed out roads and disrupted sh...
-- 2022-04-12 21:29:19
Prolonged rains and flooding in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province have claimed the lives of at least 20 people, according to local officials. The country’s military has been deployed to...
-- 2022-04-12 20:48:17
An elephant trampled to death a Colombian researcher who was studying chimpanzees in Kibali National Park in western Uganda, authorities said. Sebastian Ramirez Amaya, who was at Arizona State Univer...
-- 2022-04-09 20:22:14
Many Nigerians have once again been left without state-supplied electricity for hours on end, three weeks after the president apologised for the last nationwide outage. A system failure on the nation...
-- 2022-04-06 15:16:29
A Nigerian atheist and outspoken critic of religion was sentenced to 24 years in jail on Tuesday after pleading guilty to blasphemy charges in the largely Muslim northern state of Kano, in a ruling th...
-- 2022-04-02 19:07:54
Mali's military said it has killed over 200 Islamist militants in an operation in the centre of the West African country, the latest clash in a month of escalating violence. The strikes, carried out...
-- 2022-03-29 13:54:06
Suspected bandits attacked a passenger train headed to the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna from Abuja, the capital, on Monday evening after they trapped the train, the Kaduna state government said....
-- 2022-03-18 15:49:27
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine and said he would resist calls to condemn Russia, in comments that cast doubt over whether he would be accepted b...
-- 2022-03-08 17:41:47
Gunmen ambushed and killed at least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group in Nigeria's northwestern Kebbi state, the head of the group and a police spokesman said, in the worst violence to hit the...
-- 2022-03-08 16:07:27
At least six people, including two children, died when an apartment block collapsed in Ivory Coast's commercial capital of Abidjan overnight, the fire brigade said on Monday. Rescuers used torches to...
-- 2022-03-07 20:56:31
At least 17 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram groups were killed following an operation by troops in Nigeria's northeast region, the army said on Monday. Three...
-- 2022-03-05 15:21:01
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali said on Friday it was investigating allegations that dozens of people were massacred in the centre of the country. A video circulating on social media...
-- 2022-02-28 18:46:35
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 20 civilians in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, according to a local resident and an activist who criticised the failure of Congol...
-- 2022-02-22 17:38:37
About 60 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in an explosion at an informal gold mining site in southwest Burkina Faso, state television reported, citing local officials. The cause o...
-- 2022-02-19 11:00:34
The United States has halted nearly $160 million in US aid to Burkina Faso after determining the January ouster of President Roch Kabore constituted a military coup, triggering aid restrictions under...
-- 2022-02-18 19:41:51
The World Health Organization said on Friday six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to...
-- 2022-02-17 15:18:48
France and its European partners fighting Islamist militants in Mali will start their military withdrawal from the country and will put together by June a plan on how they will continue their operatio...
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