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Niger oil exports under threat, as Patriotic Liberation Front warns of more pipeline attacks Recent months have seen a series of attacks by armed rebels on the Nigerien pipeline designed to carry oil from Niger to Benin for international export. This massive pipeline was built with the help of a...

East African filmmakers in the spotlight at Kigali festival In Rwanda, the Kigali Cine Junction film festival opened its doors yesterday for its second edition. Organizers hope to make the event the high point of the 7th art by bringing together professionals from the Great Lakes region and...

Anger in Nigeria over the spiralling cost of living Nationwide protests against Nigeria's rising cost of living enter day two. Demonstrators have clashed with police, prompting authorities to enforce curfews across several northern states. Also in this edition, a pipeline carring oil from Niger...

Table tennis player Ibrahima Diaw on his Olympic journey for Senegal Ibrahima Diaw is representing Senegal at the 2024 Olympics in table tennis. He easily beat Nepal's Santoo Shrestha (4-0) in the first round, but fell to Hong Kong's Chun Ting Wong (4-3) in the round of 32 on July 29. This...

Bombing in Nigeria's Borno state kills more than 15 people, say police Although no one has claimed the attack, Boko Haram are suspected to be behind a bombing which killed at least 16 people on Wednesday, the latest in a series of lethal attacks against civilians in the area.

At least 21 dead as heatwave sweeps across Morocco A heatwave in Morocco has killed at least 21 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni Mellal last week, according to the health ministry. The North African country, which is sweltering under soaring temperatures of up to 48 degrees...

Mali rebels claim to have killed at least 130 soldiers, Russians in July clashes Mali's Tuareg rebels announced on Thursday that they had killed at least 131 Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner mercenaries during intense clashes in late July. Despite the heavy losses, Russia reaffirmed its...

Sudan: Burhan rules out negotiation Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan struck a defiant tone on Wednesday after a drone hit an army base he was visiting in eastern Sudan, casting doubt on recent efforts to bring an end to a 15-month civil war. The attack took place at agraduation ceremony...

Guinea court sentences ex-dictator Camara to 20 years over 2009 stadium massacre More than a decade after the brutal 2009 massacre and mass rapes of demonstrators at a Conakry football stadium shocked the world, a Guinean court on Wednesday sentenced former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20...

Western Sahara :Algeria withdraws envoys to France Algeria pulls its ambassador to France after paris throws is support behind Morocco's stalled plan to establish limited autonomy for Western Sahara. The move puts France at odds with Algiers which backs Polisario front separatists demanding full...

Morocco's King Mohamed VI pardons imprisoned journalists, activists Morocco's King Mohammed VI pardoned three journalists, as well as an activist and a historian on Monday to mark his 25th anniversary as monarch. Rights groups criticised the journalists' detentions as repressive tactics to...

Olympics: Tatjana Smith wins swimming gold Tatjana Smith took South Africa's first gold of the Paris Olympics on Monday and added the 100 metres breaststroke title to the 200 metres she won at Tokyo 2021 under her maiden name of Schoenmaker.

Russia's Wagner group reports casualties in intense clash with Tuareg rebels in Mali The Wagner mercenary group reported on Monday that its fighters, alongside Malian soldiers, suffered casualties during intense clashes with Tuareg rebels near Mali's border with Algeria. Despite claims by Malian...

Libyan court hands jail terms to officials linked to deadly Derna dams collapse A Libyan court on Sunday handed jail sentences to more than 10 current and former officials for their links to the deadly collapse of two dams outside the coastal city of Derna in September. The resulting flood...

Mali rebels say they killed dozens of government troops, Wagner mercenaries Tuareg rebels in northern Mali on Saturday said they had killed and injured dozens of government soldiers and mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group in fighting over two days near the border with Algeria. Mali’s army...

South Africa gears up for the Paris Olympics African sporting fans are holding their breath on the eve of the official kick off of the Paris olympics. Some of the action has already kicked off with the rugby sevens and football having started on Wednesday. Two sports that are particulalry close...

Kenya :Ruto appoints four opposition ministers Four opposition ministers are amongst Kenya's newly reformed cabinet. President William Ruto has invited them to be part of his national unity government as he scrambles to ease a crisis that forced him to sack almost his entire govnmernt earlier...

US troops to complete withdrawal from Niger early August, general says Remaining US troops stationed in Niger’s Agadez drone base in the north will leave the country by early August, according to a US commander. Niger’s junta, who seized power in a coup last year, has demanded that US and French...

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces willing to participate in US-mediated Sudan ceasefire talks Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is willing to explore avenues towards a “peaceful, negotiated political solution” to the devastating war with the Sudanese army...

Hundreds killed in Ethiopia's deadliest recorded landslides The desperate search for survivors of a landslide in southern Ethiopia continued on Tuesday. At least 229 people were killed, swept away in its path on Monday. Also, in the wake of over six weeks of anti-government protests in Kenya...