Africa

Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles have shown measles can be eliminated with universal vaccination even as preventable outbreaks recur in parts of the continent with low immunisation coverage.

Tanzania police patrol streets on national holiday ahead of planned protests over October election.

International Criminal Court sentences Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman to 20 years in prison for Darfur atrocities more than 20 years ago.

The Alliance of Sahel States – made up of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – said that the aircraft had been carrying 11 military personnel and did not have permission to fly over Burkina Faso.

Several people died in Benin during a thwarted coup attempt on the weekend, the West African country’s government announced on Monday after an emergency cabinet meeting.

Decades after thousands of Somali students found refuge and education in Khartoum while their own nation faced sociopolitical challenges, Somalia has opened its doors to Sudanese youth fleeing conflict.

Somalia’s Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mohamed Farah Noor, has announced that the Federal Government will soon relaunch Somali Airlines, marking the national carrier’s long-awaited return to the skies.

Around 100 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria last month were handed over to state officials on Monday, a day after authorities secured their release.

Tanzania’s prime minister urged people to stay at home on Tuesday, when activists have called for protests against the government’s response to the demonstrations around October elections.

Uganda’s national police service said on Monday that it would investigate reports that officers had beaten pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine and his supporters at a campaign rally for next month’s election.