Africa News

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Saturday, August 26 declared winner of the presidential elections. According to results released by...

Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday, August 5 paid a courtesy call to Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at State...

Kenya is one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African countries that have qualified from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)....

Annually on June 16th, South Africa commemorates the thousands of young activists who marched in 1976 to protest the quality...

In 1995, Angeline Adhiambo, then a 20-year-old dropped out of school in form two. This was after the sudden death...

A Kenyan woman has been arrested in Ghana with 11.04 kilograms of suspected cocaine worth Sh41 million ($309,120). The 35-year-old...

About 3,000 Kenyans are stuck in Sudan amid escalating violence, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has said. Mutua says...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants the International Community to consider putting travel sanctions against Azimio La Umoja One Kenya...

In a highly disputed general election, Bola Tinubu of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) party was declared President of Africa's most...

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is leaving his role as an African Union (AU) special envoy. The opposition leader has...

President William Ruto has asked the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund(IMF)  to review their plans to match the...

President William Ruto has said that time is ripe for the African continent to start manufacturing her own medicines and...

President William Ruto has responded to Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance Coalition leader Raila Odinga who called for the...

A Somali court on Monday sentenced a freelance journalist to two months in jail on security-related charges, a press association...

Two homes and a superyacht belonging to Equatorial Guinea's vice president have been seized in South Africa after a local...

Appealing to Nigeria's youth to come out and vote, outsider candidate Peter Obi on Saturday rallied thousands of supporters in...

Paris' defense minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying...

At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of "armed terrorists" in southwestern Niger, close to the...

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the...

It was just after dawn and tempers were fraying outside the First Bank in the northern Nigerian town of Kano,...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will seek to lift the mood of a country encumbered by energy shortages and a...

The deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi's history has killed at least 1,210 people, while vaccines remain scarce and several other...

Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of...

Human Rights Watch called Thursday for targeted sanctions against Eritrea, accusing its government of rounding up thousands of people, including...

Forced into marriage by her family, 14-year-old Bisharo stayed only five days with her abusive new husband before fleeing his...

It was only when she scrambled to the top of the mountain after fleeing the army attack on her village...

Kenya and Eritrea have agreed to permanently scrap visa requirements for their citizens. The announcement was made on Thursday at...

Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Wednesday that elections would go ahead as scheduled this month despite growing tensions...

Uganda's wildlife population has boomed over the past four decades, the wildlife minister said Wednesday, but warned more must be...

Uganda said Wednesday it would not renew its mandate for the UN's rights office, a move criticized in a country...