Sabastian Sawe hopes the stringent testing regime he underwent before becoming the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in marathon running will prove to the world he is competing clean
April 27, 2026
Clashes between two families over water access have killed at least 42 people in eastern Chad, according to the government
April 27, 2026
Congo has announced the creation of a paramilitary guard to secure its mining operations, backed by U.S. and Emirati investments
April 27, 2026
Mali's government is facing new questions about how long it can hold on to power two days after insurgents launched attacks across the country, hitting the main army base outside
April 27, 2026
Malian Minister of Defense Gen. Sadio Camara has been killed in an attack as jihadi and rebel forces seized towns and military bases across the West African country
April 26, 2026
Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack on his residence, the government said on Sunday, a high-profile fatality during coordinated assaults staged the
April 26, 2026
Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack carried out by insurgents on Saturday, a government spokesperson said on Sunday on state television, confirming
April 27, 2026
An al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday for coordinated attacks across Mali, in one of the boldest operations insurgents have mounted
April 25, 2026
Islamic militants and separatists say they attacked several locations in Mali’s capital, Bamako, and other cities in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the West African country in recent years
April 25, 2026
Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights
April 25, 2026
Tunisian authorities on Friday ordered a one-month suspension of activities by the Human Rights League (LTDH), according to a statement from the group, which was among the
April 25, 2026
South African authorities promised on Friday to crack down on anyone carrying out xenophobic attacks on Ghanaians and other foreign nationals, a day after Ghana
April 24, 2026
Marching bands blew horns, women ululated and men cheered on Friday to celebrate King Mswati III's 40 years on Eswatini's throne,
April 24, 2026
A passenger plane overran the runway and careered into roadside bushes at a remote airstrip in northeastern Kenya on Friday, but all 36 people on board escaped without
April 24, 2026
Pope Leo on Thursday firmly condemned the killing of protesters in Iran, after U.S.
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war
April 23, 2026
At least 518 people were killed in violence that broke out during Tanzania's elections last October, a government-appointed commission of inquiry said on
April 23, 2026
Mauritius said it would wait up to the end of July for Britain to finalise a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands after London put the agreement on hold following
April 23, 2026
A commission in Tanzania formed to investigate postelection violence says that at least 518 people died after the October vote
April 23, 2026
A dispute over the remains of Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu continues as a court orders his body returned to his family
April 23, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the U.S.,
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo returns to Rome on Thursday after wrapping up an ambitious four-nation Africa tour in which he forcefully decried the
April 23, 2026
China's foreign ministry on Thursday said it firmly opposes Washington's criticism of Chinese pressure on some African countries to revoke overflight clearances for
April 23, 2026
The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country
April 23, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”
April 22, 2026
Six former security officials accused of plotting the violent overthrow of President Bola Tinubu's government last year pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as
April 22, 2026
Pope Leo's
April 22, 2026
A Colombian woman deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo under a new agreement with the Trump administration said she was
April 22, 2026
The Trump administration is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo to resettle 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting U.S. visas,
April 22, 2026
Many African Catholics have greeted Leo’s first visit with joy. Others fear he’s lent legitimacy to strongman leaders
April 22, 2026
South Africa's headline consumer inflation edged up as expected last month, but analysts said the increase would be far larger in April when fuel
April 22, 2026
Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle
April 22, 2026
The foreign ministers of Niger and Mali have accused neighbouring countries of sponsoring terrorism, but said they were willing to cooperate
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo warned on Tuesday that humanity's future is at risk of being "tragically compromised" because of
April 21, 2026
China is willing to work with African countries to address the spillover effects of the Middle East conflict, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday while meeting with
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa was so dizzying in its complexity that it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II
April 10, 2026
Nigerian authorities say they have charged six people with terrorism and treason over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, according to charge sheet seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday
April 21, 2026
Tigray's main political party said it was taking back control of the region's government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia's federal government that ended
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo lamented during an event in Angola on Monday that many people in the world were being "exploited by authoritarians and
April 20, 2026
U.S. companies are showing "significant" interest in Democratic Republic of Congo mining assets, including the rebel-held Rubaya area, a
April 20, 2026
Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has barred radio and television presenters from airing personal opinions, intimidating guests or broadcasting divisive
April 20, 2026
Pope Leo urged Angolans on Sunday to overcome divisions after decades of war, first at a Mass in a field outside Luanda and
April 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries
April 18, 2026
Pope Leo addresses spat with Trump, says ‘debate’ is not focus of his Africa trip
April 18, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption
April 17, 2026
France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open
April 17, 2026
The first migrants deported from the United States under a recent bilateral agreement arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, according
April 17, 2026
Pope Leo called on Cameroonians on Friday to reject violence and be generous with their neighbours during an event billed as
April 17, 2026
Senegal's president has approved a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality,
March 31, 2026
(Afrocab corrects total number of patients returned to treatment to 3,356 from around 1,000 in paragraph 17. Figure includes 1,095 patients aged under 24 years.)
March 31, 2026
Thirteen people were killed and 57 injured when ammunition exploded due to an electrical short circuit on a Burundian military base on Tuesday
April 01, 2026
Former Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been appointed U.N. resident coordinator in Kenya, the U.N. said on Wednesday, adding he would take up his post that
April 02, 2026
Pope warns of world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ in the wake of Trump attacks
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful
April 16, 2026
Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of
April 02, 2026
Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget about democracy" and that "
April 03, 2026
Cameroon's parliament on Saturday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to reintroduce the position of vice president, a measure the
April 04, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo will receive third-country nationals deported from the United States under a new deal with the Trump administration, the government in
April 05, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump
April 16, 2026
Pope Leo has strong words for "those who manipulate religion... for their own military, economic and political gain."
April 16, 2026
South Africa's private sector returned to growth in March as faster output and hiring outweighed a slump in export orders and business confidence linked to the U.S.-
April 07, 2026
Kenya's private sector activity contracted in March for the first time since August, partly due to the war in the Middle East, with only the wholesale and retail sectors
April 07, 2026
Cameroon said Russian authorities have confirmed the deaths of 16 Cameroonians fighting against Ukraine, the first time the Central African country has spoken about the
April 07, 2026
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked the East African nation's speaker and deputy speaker of parliament, according to a decree read out in the parliament on Tuesday
April 07, 2026
With his previous insults towards African countries and his gutting of foreign assistance, U.S.
April 16, 2026
Benin Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni is expected to make the leap from behind-the-scenes technocrat to head of state on
April 08, 2026
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed a ceasefire declared in the Iran war, urging its full implementation on the ground and warning against any
April 08, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour
April 15, 2026
The international community has failed in Sudan, British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said on the sidelines of a Berlin conference on the war in the country, as she called for
April 15, 2026
(Corrects time of death in paragraph 5 to around 3 p.m and not 9 p.m.)
April 15, 2026
A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese man to pay a fine of 1 million shillings ($7,746) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle
April 15, 2026
South African opposition politician Julius Malema was back in court on Wednesday, as prosecutors pushed for him to be given the
April 15, 2026
The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15 overshadowed by other regional and global turmoil, despite having created what the United Nations calls the world's worst
April 15, 2026
The West African affiliates of al Qaeda and Islamic State have clashed in Niger for the first time, according to a statement from one of the groups, a
April 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump
April 15, 2026
A British man appeared in a London court on Thursday charged with having trained and fought as a commando with al Shabaab militants in Somalia over 15 years ago.
April 09, 2026
The United States has urged its citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria and authorised the departure of non‑emergency U.S. government employees and their families from the
April 09, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he is seeking direct talks
April 09, 2026
A court in Eswatini has ruled that the first five migrants the Trump administration sent to the African kingdom have a right to a lawyer, after they
April 10, 2026
Mali supports Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said on Friday, becoming the latest African country to endorse Rabat's vision for
April 10, 2026
East Africa's Djibouti is set to vote for a president on Friday, with incumbent Ismael Omar Guelleh expected to extend his 27-year rule after parliament removed age limits that
April 10, 2026
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Roelf Meyer as the country's ambassador to the United States
April 15, 2026
Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh nL8N3W50Q9 has won re-election with 97.8% of the vote, state-owned Radio Television Djibouti said on Saturday, handing him a
April 11, 2026
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit Eswatini next week, his office said on Monday, the island's last remaining diplomatic ally in Africa.
April 13, 2026
Benin's finance minister Romuald Wadagni was expected to coast to victory in a presidential election on Sunday, buoyed by strong economic growth and the absence of a
April 12, 2026
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread, according to a report
April 13, 2026
A separatist alliance in Cameroon's English-speaking regions said it would observe a three-day "safe travel passage" later this week to allow
April 13, 2026
Ghana said France was open to having discussions with a coalition of countries that are calling for reparations for transatlantic slavery, following a meeting
April 13, 2026
Pope Leo https://www.reuters.com/world/pope/ blasted violations of international law by "neocolonial" world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during
April 13, 2026
A Nigerian airstrike at a village market in which more than 200 people are feared dead is the latest incident in which the military has hit civilian targets while pursuing
April 13, 2026
An international conference to raise funding commitments for Sudan has produced pledges of more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.77 billion)
April 15, 2026
Pope Leo https://www.reuters.com/world/pope/ leaves
April 09, 2026
The sole opposition candidate in Benin's presidential election, Paul Hounkpe, has conceded defeat to Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni following the vote in the West
April 13, 2026
Nigerian police have arrested a 33-member gang over a November attack in which 38 people were abducted from a church in central Kwara state, police said on
April 14, 2026
Pope Leo paid homage to his spiritual roots on Tuesday, travelling to the ancient birthplace in Algeria of St.
April 14, 2026
Armed with pistols and an AK-47 assault rifle, the rebels ambushed Rev.
April 14, 2026
Democratic Republic of Congo is set to receive more than 30 deportees from the United States this week, four
April 15, 2026
The Iran war has stalled the world’s economic momentum this year, likely pushing growth lower compared to 2025, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday
April 14, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran
April 13, 2026
Authorities say that a stampede at a popular mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens
April 12, 2026
A Nigerian Air Force strike targeting jihadi rebels hit a local market in northeastern Nigeria, killing over 100 civilians including children and injuring many others, a rights group and local media reported
April 12, 2026
Votes have been cast in Benin where the country is choosing a successor to President Patrice Talon, who is stepping down after a decade in power
April 12, 2026
UK forced to halt Chagos Islands deal after Trump criticism
April 11, 2026
Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been reelected for a sixth term, winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday's election
April 11, 2026
British authorities have arrested a Sudanese man on suspicion of endangering life after four migrants died trying to cross the English Channel
April 10, 2026
Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
April 10, 2026
Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats
November 12, 2024
Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast
April 09, 2026
China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people
April 08, 2026
Congo will receive some deportees from the U.S. as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program
April 05, 2026
A man has killed four children in a machete attack at a nursery school in Kampala, Uganda
April 02, 2026
Congo has declared the end of a two-year mpox outbreak, which is believed to have caused over 2,200 deaths
April 02, 2026
The Italian coast guard has found 19 people dead and rescued 58 from a dinghy filled with migrants near Lampedusa
April 01, 2026
Congo has erupted in joy overnight after an extra-time goal against Jamaica sent the country back to the World Cup for the first time in more than half a century
April 01, 2026
A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench
March 31, 2026
Public hearings on proposed constitutional amendments in Zimbabwe have turned chaotic and violent
March 31, 2026
An official says at least 50 people have died and 125 others are missing after landslides hit three districts in southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains
March 12, 2026
A group of four migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini, under a third-country program that rights groups protest
March 12, 2026
Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation
March 12, 2026
How African designers are making their mark on global fashion
January 23, 2025
This drone manufacturer wants to protect Africa’s power, mining and oil assets
September 09, 2025
South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining
March 11, 2026
Bodies of Italian divers located in sea cave
WHO chief raises alarm over scale of Ebola outbreak after death toll climbs
Home Depot's first quarter is driven by homeowner spring buying and professionals
Rescuers search for 3 missing after German building collapse possibly caused by gas explosion
Busiest US commuter rail system to resume operations as deal reached to end strike