UN rights chief deplores abuse reports in Ethiopia's Tigray
21 June 2021, 14:33 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Ghana plants 5 million trees in single day to combat deforestation
12 June 2021, 09:42 AM
Climate action
‘This IS INSANE’: Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine
9 June 2021, 07:44 AM
Coronavirus
Nigeria suspended Twitter days after president's post removed
5 June 2021, 06:52 AM
Careers
African Union suspends Mali after military coup and threatens sanctions
2 June 2021, 13:29 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning
27 May 2021, 13:39 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Suspected ADF militants kill 22 with knives, machetes in eastern Congo
26 May 2021, 19:54 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Mali's president and prime minister resign following military takeover
26 May 2021, 13:55 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Military detain Mali's president, prime minister and defence minister
25 May 2021, 02:11 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Court allows Suez Canal to keep holding container ship that blocked traffic
23 May 2021, 13:17 PM
Africa & rest of the world
5 people killed in stampede at Algiers rap concert
At least five people are killed in a stampede at a packed rap concert in the Algerian capital on Thursday night, a hospital source says.
23 August 2019, 09:51 AM
Sudan swears in ruling council
Sudan took further steps in its transition towards civilian rule yesterday with the swearing in of a new sovereign council, to be followed by the appointment of a prime minister.
21 August 2019, 18:00 PM
19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast
Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in western Uganda and exploded, police said
19 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Sudan’s Bashir got $90m from Saudi royals
Sudan’s deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir has admitted to receiving $90 million in cash from Saudi royals, an investigator told a Khartoum court yesterday.
19 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Sudanese celebrate transition to civilian rule
Rapturous crowds filled the streets of Khartoum yesterday as Sudan’s generals and protest leaders signed a historic deal paving the way to civilian rule.
17 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Sudan allows Al-Jazeera to reopen office
Sudan has allowed Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera to reopen its Khartoum office, which they had shut down in May, the channel’s
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
17 seamen kidnapped off Cameroon
Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said yesterday.
16 August 2019, 18:00 PM
At least 60 killed, dozones injured
At least 60 people perished in Tanzania yesterday when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Tanzania fuel tanker blast kills 60
At least 60 people perish in Tanzania when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel.
10 August 2019, 13:12 PM
Paramilitaries arrested in Sudan for pupils’ killing
Sudan’s ruling generals yesterday announced that nine paramilitaries had been arrested for the killing of four teenage demonstrators
2 August 2019, 19:07 PM
Rwanda shuts border with Ebola-hit DRC
Rwanda has shut its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Rwanda seals Congo border after third Ebola case in Goma
Rwandan authorities close the border with the Ebola-hit Congolese city of Goma for everyone other than Congolese citizens leaving Rwanda, as a third case was confirmed in Goma.
1 August 2019, 15:01 PM
Boko Haram fighters kill 65 in Nigeria
An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Snake forces adjournment of parliament in Nigeria
A snake burst onto the chamber floor of a state parliament building in southwest Nigeria, sending lawmakers scampering and forcing an
26 July 2019, 18:13 PM
WHO sounds Ebola alarm as risks intensify
The World Health Organization declares Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighbouring countries.
18 July 2019, 04:24 AM
13 killed in Nigeria building collapse
Thirteen people in central Nigeria died after a three-storey residential building collapsed after torrential rain, emergency workers said
16 July 2019, 18:00 PM
S Africa’s Zuma shrugs off graft allegations at inquiry
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma yesterday dismissed multiple graft allegations against him, telling a judicial inquiry he was
15 July 2019, 18:00 PM
26 killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege
At least 26 people, including several foreigners, are killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official has said.
13 July 2019, 08:46 AM
11 killed as boat capsizes in Niger
Eleven people drowned yesterday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of the region told AFP. The accident
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Endangered rhino numbers soar by 1,000% in Tanzania
The number of endangered rhinos in Tanzania has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government crackdown on organised gangs guilty of
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM