Africa

Trump cites his claims of “white genocide” against white farmers in South Africa and its refusal to symbolically hand over the G20 presidency as his reason for barring the country from next year’s summit.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked Deng Lual Wol as the petroleum ministry’s undersecretary and replaced him with Chol Thon Abel, the fourth time he has transferred the post from one of the men to the other in less than two months.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency following a series of killings and kidnappings in the country.

Kenya will appeal against a regional court ruling that halted a trade deal with the European Union, Trade Minister Lee Kinyanjui said on Wednesday, adding the ruling imperils $1.56 billion worth of annual exports to the EU.

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with a rival paramilitary group since April 2023, has called on US President Donald Trump to bring peace.

A group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday suspended the country’s electoral process and said it is under their control “until further notice.”

A Europe-Africa summit in Luanda pledges deeper trade ties, critical minerals partnerships and new migration measures.

Moscow says Nigeria has ‘serious experience’ in tackling terrorist threats, vows continued assistance

Twenty-four female students who were kidnapped from their boarding school last week in the country’s northwest have been released, the presidency announced on Tuesday.

A plane carrying food aid for international charity Samaritan’s Purse crashed in South Sudan’s Unity State on Tuesday, killing all three crew members, an official from the charity said.