Gabon's former first lady and the son of the country's deposed leader Ali Bongo Ondimba will not return to Libreville to face trial for embezzlement of public funds, their French lawyer said on Wednesday.
Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday launched an investigation into how $4.6 billion in international aid grants between 2021 and 2025 was used, saying the money had failed to prevent high mortality rates from HIV, tuberculos
More than one million people have returned to Sudan's capital Khartoum over the past 10 months despite widespread insecurity, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
A fuel tanker explosion rocked the Nigerian village of Ezza in the Katcha Local Government Area on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least 38 people, according to authorities.
Senegal has raised its projections of debt service payments by about 3.2 trillion CFA francs ($5.8 billion) for the next three years in a revised budget document published last week.
The Sudanese pound has shed nearly two-fifths of its value after a de facto embargo on flights from the army's temporary capital Port Sudan into the UAE disrupted the vital gold trade.
At least 14 people were killed and 29 injured in a train crash in eastern Ethiopia, local state media said on Tuesday.
The visit is the first by a senior Egyptian official to Israel since October 2023.
The unusual ruling by the Kano Magistrate Court follows months of viral videos showing the duo in what authorities deemed "immoral" exchanges.
Nnamdi Kanu who leads the banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, faces terrorism charges, which he denies.
At least 1,510 people have fled the city of Al-Fasher in western Sudan over a five-day period due to escalating violence and deteriorating security conditions, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on M
The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in South Africa's coalition government, wants to axe race-based laws aimed at boosting Black jobs in an economy still dominated by white people.
Algeria has said that it is working to repatriate seven teenagers whose Mediterranean crossing to Spain went viral on TikTok and sparked controversy over irregular migration.
Madagascar's new head of state has named a civilian prime minister, following a military takeover last week that sent ex-President Andry Rajoelina fleeing.
Hypertension cases are spiking across Africa and beyond, with the silent killer claiming 10 million lives worldwide each year as healthcare systems struggle to provide affordable treatment to those at risk.
The Sudanese Armed Forces, operating alongside the police, intercepted the attackers, inflicting heavy casualties.
Burhan's remarks came ahead of planned Quartet meetings in New York to push for a peaceful solution to the war in Sudan.
A Cameroon-flagged liquefied natural gas tanker has issued a distress signal after an explosion onboard while off the coast of Yemen.
The last Ebola patient has been discharged from a treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World WHO said on Sunday.
Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his ancestral home in the Western county of Siaya.
The military had said 16 officers had been arrested over "issues of indiscipline''.
The main opposition leader, former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira, had submitted his presidential candidacy too late, according to the Supreme Court
Barrack Obama's father hailed from Siaya County on the shores of Lake Victoria - the same region where Raila Odinga was born and will be buried on Sunday.
A resolution adopted at the party’s annual conference directs the government to “initiate the requisite legislative amendments” to implement the plan.
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