Burundi has secured a place at their first Women's Africa Cup of Nations after beating Djibouti 6-1 in their second-round play-off first leg. unranked…
Both missed out on the African Cup of Nations (CAN) in January but are hoping to bounce back on the European stage: strikers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang…
Tunisian General Labour Union opened its 25th annual congress in Sfax to elect a new leader, as the current Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi runs …
Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a c…
Burkina Faso's junta leader, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was sworn in as president Wednesday, less than a month after mutinous soldiers seize…
A South African court has dismissed former President Jacob Zuma's attempt to remove the prosecutor from his upcoming corruption trial. Zuma’s lawyers …
Algeria's president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune says the government will introduce unemployment benefits for young adults as the country struggles with a jo…
In 2019 alone, air pollution was responsible for around 5,000 premature deaths in Kenya. Getting more electric motorcycles on the road has become a so…
Unions counted the numbers of suspended teachers in Zimbabwe at 135,000 out of the roughly 140,000 employed in public schools, after a pay dispute bet…
Mauritius planted flag on disputed Chagos Islands, on Monday, challenging British sovereignty claims. The red, blue, yellow and green flag of Mauritiu…
On Tuesday, France’s top court definitely closed a probe into the 1994 shooting down of the Rwandan presidential plane. The Cour de cassation in Franc…
In Ivory Coast a group of conservationists and veterinarians are moving this increasingly endangered forest elephant to an area where the animal is le…
Increasing temperatures and sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather are threatening human health and safety, food and wat…
South Africa’s economic hub Gauteng is offering grocery vouchers to people in their 50s who have not yet received covid 19 vaccination as a way of enc…
Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru sat before the International Criminal Court at the Hague to face accusations of bribing and interfering with witnesses in a…
Ugandan police have arrested seven people for allegedly belonging to two terror cells, and having links to a raid in the central Lukaya and Butambala …
The whole idea for the EU-African Union Summit, which is expected to take place in Brussels next Thursday (17 February), started some two years ago af…
American fashion designer LaQuan Smith opened his New York Fashion Week show with a dedication to his late mentor, Andre Leon Talley, who passed away …
A week after the first reports of adulterated fuel, Nigeria's national oil company, NNPC, is still trying to remove the contaminated product from petr…
Nigeria's annual inflation slowed by 0.03 percentage point to 15.60% in January, the statistics office said on Tuesday, ahead of the release of growth…
Senegalese international, Moussa Konate has been loaned until the end of the season to Turkish side Sivasspor. The 28-year-old striker, who was traine…
Fake news is flooding Africa's conflict-ridden Sahel, according to experts, sowing discord and confusion in the increasingly volatile region. Doctored…
The European Union (EU) on Monday reiterated its opposition to the lifting of patents vaccines against Covid-19. This comes three days before a summit…
The parliament in Ethiopia has voted for an early end to a six-month state of emergency declared in November when rebellious Tigrayan forces had threa…
Last updated: 1 hour ago Under a bright Nicaraguan sun and defying the odds of contracting the coronavirus, 400 couples married Monday in a single cer…
On Tuesday, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress party celebrates 40 years of existence. For the first time ever, a party member leads the coun…
Sudan and sub-Saharan African refugees protested in Zarzis, on Monday. They complained about their "marginalization" and demanded their evacuation fro…
French Foreign Affairs Minister, Jean-Yves Le drian announced on Monday, French troops would continue fighting terrorism in Sahel but no longer in Mal…
Head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan met with Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki in Khartoum on Sund…
Last updated: 7 hours ago The work of some of the world's top 'hyperrealist' artists is on display in Lyon, France. A host of immobile creatures, dist…
A primary school teacher in Nigeria has been arrested for allegedly flogging a 19-months-old child to death. The deceased identified as Obinna was all…
Cameroon will keep Toni Conceicao as the national team coach despite failure to win the African Cup of Nations that the country hosted. Cameroon finis…
Sudan's military authorities have arrested a former senior government official a second time, his party said, as thousands of people took to the stree…
Last updated: 3 hours ago Couples flocked to Paris on Monday to celebrate Valentine's Day against a romantic backdrop that lovers dream about around t…
Valentine’s Day is recognised as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and romantic love across the world. However,…
Thousands of Liberians marked the bicentenary of their country with a mass rally in the capital, Monrovia. Liberia was founded by former US slaves in …
A group of seven recently captured Senegalese soldiers have been released by separatist rebels from Senegal's Casamance region. The soldiers were capt…
Tensions remained high this Monday in South Africa as parents and students gathered outside a school in Randfontein near Johannesburg to denounce alle…
Nigeria's number two police officer, suspended last year after being implicated in fraud in the United States, is now wanted by the Nigerian judiciary…
Two people have died after a cargo train crashed into a truck at a railway crossing north of Zambia’s capital Lusaka on Monday. Operators of the train…
"It's hard to eat here. There are no fields and no food. Life is hard," says Albertine Nzale, traditional chief of Kinduti, on the outskirts of the DR…
Ivorian striker Sebastien Haller scored a hat-trick on Sunday as Dutch league leaders Ajax won 5 - 0 against Twente in Amsterdam. The Ivorian player h…
In a photo posted in November, 18-year-old Sabee al Saidi is shown wearing bright-pink lipstick as she leans from the side of a rickety wooden boat, a…
Centuries-old manuscripts and scrolls are being offered on websites for few hundred dollars raising suspicion on the conditions of their acquisition. …
On Monday, Ugandan former warlord Dominic Ongwen will be heard by the appeal chamber of the International Criminal court. The Appeals Chamber of the I…
World Athletics and Athletics Kenya held a cross-country race in tribute to late athlete Agnes Tirop on Saturday, February 12. A race to celebrate the…
Last updated: 7 hours ago North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a new mammoth construction project in Pyongyang on S…
Last updated: 5 hours ago Venetians and tourists on Saturday swapped surgical masks for carnival masks and costumes, to mark the start of the famed Ve…
Last updated: 5 hours ago Same-sex couples and families gathered Saturday in the sunny Chilean capital Santiago, celebrating a yearly picnic that for …
Last updated: 1 hour ago Protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 rules marched through The Hague for a second day on Sunday, in solidarity with Cana…
