N'djamena: About 50 people were killed and nearly 300 injured in violence that broke out in Chad on Thursday as hundreds took to...
N'djamena: About 50 people were killed and nearly 300 injured in violence that broke out in Chad on Thursday as hundreds took to...
Accra: Ghana’s cedi extended the world’s biggest loss against the dollar this year amid uncertainty that possible debt restructuring could affect domestic bondholders....
Kampala: Uganda's Ebola outbreak is "rapidly evolving” a month after the disease was reported in the East African country, a top World Health...
Chad introduced a state of emergency after flooding that’s displaced more than 1 million people and destroyed thousands of hectares of cropland. Higher...
Accra: Streets were quiet in the normally bustling heart of Accra's central business district on Wednesday as traders in the Ghanaian capital closed...
Nairobi: The Ethiopian army has captured three towns in the northern region of Tigray, one to the northwest and two to the south...
Bamako: Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed and three others seriously injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northern Mali...
Nairobi: Ethiopian government forces and their allies on Monday captured Shire, one of the biggest cities in the northern region of Tigray, from...
South African state-owned logistics firm Transnet said on Monday it had agreed to a three-year wage deal with the union representing the majority...
Cairo: Renewed tribal clashes in southern Sudan have killed at least 13 people and injured more than two dozen others since late last...
The Serum Institute of India plans to manufacture 20,000 to 30,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine by the end of November for...
Widespread flooding in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has claimed 603 lives and displaced 1.3 million people. The floods have submerged 108,392 hectares...
Nairobi: The chair of the African Union on Sunday called on those involved in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to...
Ouagadougou: Capt. Ibrahim Traore officially became Burkina Faso’s transitional president on Friday, two weeks after he seized power in the country’s second coup...
Cairo: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Egyptian authorities have agreed to finalise work to reach a staff-level agreement 'very soon', the...
Kampala: Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the...
Berlin: The acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alleged he was "mistreated” upon his arrival at Germany's Frankfurt...
Washington / Johannesburg: Delays in restructuring Ethiopia's debt due to the failings of a new global mechanism for resolving debt problems are "disappointing,"...
