21 Apr, 2025

Côte d’Ivoire main opposition names Tidjane Thiam as presidential candidate

Thiam has dismissed concerns he lacks a connection with the country after spending two decades abroad.

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21 Apr, 2025

DR Congo raids ex-president Kabila’s properties – family

Investigators said they were looking for “stolen or hidden” military materiel but nothing was found, according to Joseph Kabila’s family spokesperson.

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21 Apr, 2025

South Africa condemns Israeli strikes on Gaza hospitals as war crimes

Israel bombed, burned, destroyed at least 35 hospitals in Gaza since October 2023, says South African Foreign Ministry.

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21 Apr, 2025

Why tourism is at the heart of Somalia’s changing narrative

Somalia’s revival as a tourism destination marks a journey from conflict to reclaiming its lost identity as a country blessed with natural wealth, cultural richness, and a resilient population.

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21 Apr, 2025

Zambia president pardons ex-defence minister jailed for corruption

Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba was freed on medical grounds amid a social media storm on the state of his health in prison.

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21 Apr, 2025

Rwanda should cease all military support of M23 – Trump’s Africa adviser

Massad Boulos reaffirms Washington’s position that ‘Rwanda should cease all military support of M23, withdraw troops from DR Congo’

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21 Apr, 2025

Somalia-US launch deadly air strikes in battle to recapture key town

The air raids come a day the al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group claimed it had captured the strategic town of Adan Yabaal.

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21 Apr, 2025

‘Terrorists’ burn homes, churches in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province

Since 2017, the gas-rich region has been experiencing armed violence that has displaced 10,000 people who include women and children.

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17 Apr, 2025

Nigeria, Niger foreign ministers discuss terrorist threats amid diplomatic tensions

The talks focused on the terror threat along their borders, “which constitutes a real obstacle to the effective implementation of all development programmes”, the statement said

17 Apr, 2025

South Africa defends appointment of envoy to US who called Trump racist, homophobic

‘Political issues such as the tariff situation should be kept separate from personal opinions,’ presidency says

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