Tennis star Ons Jabeur returns home to Tunisia to cheering crowd In tonight's edition: The cost of climate adaptation for some African nations could be more than five times the amount they currently spend on healthcare. A report by the Tearfund development agency looked at 11 countries on the...
Food crisis rapidly deteriorating, African continent amongst most hit In tonight's edition: Olympic champion Mo Farah has revealed he was trafficked to Britain as a child from Djibouti. The war in Ukraine has deepened a food emergency that's affecting a staggering 346 million people in parts of...
French court jails ex-top Rwandan official for 20 years over genocide A French court on Tuesday jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in the African nation's genocide.
Police hunt gunmen who killed at least 15 in Soweto bar shooting In tonight's edition: People in Soweto accuse authorities of not doing enough to protect them after 15 people are gunned down in an attack on a bar in the South African township. In Nigeria, the presidential candidate for the...
Mali authorities arrest nearly 50 soldiers from Ivory Coast Malian authorities arrested nearly 50 soldiers from Ivory Coast who came to Mali to work for a contracting company of the United Nations mission in Mali. The government made the announcement Monday calling the Ivorian soldiers...
South Africa police say 19 killed in dual bar shootings Nineteen people are dead after armed assailants randomly shot at patrons in two bars in South Africa in separate incidents denounced by the president as "unacceptable and worrying".
Tunisia's president amends draft constitution consolidating his power Tunisian President Kais Saied published an amended version of a draft constitution late Friday in an attempt to ward off criticism after the original was slammed for the nearly unlimited power it gave his office.
'Nobody is interested in conflict': Rwanda's Kagame discusses DR Congo ceasefire Rwandan President Paul Kagame sat down with our special correspondent Marc Perelman in Kigali to talk of the ceasefire agreement reached this week with the Democratic Republic of Congo to ease tensions between the...
Dos Santos, Angola’s former president, dies at 79 Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said Friday.
‘Stakes are high’ amid renewed Rwanda-DR Congo tensions over rebel fighters Fresh clashes broke out Thursday between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) army and the M23 rebel group, one day after DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame met in...
Sudan's Burhan sacks civilian members from ruling body as protesters rally Sudan's coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday dismissed the last civilian members from his ruling body as part of a power shift to a new transitional government. Protesters rejecting his pledge to "make room"...
Tunisian judge freezes bank accounts of former PM, parliament speaker A Tunisian judge has ordered a freeze on the financial assets of the former speaker of the country’s dissolved parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, former prime minister Hamadi Jebali and several other people, an official told...
Algeria marks 60 years since end of French colonial rule As Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France, we take a closer look at the deep diplomatic and social tensions that exist between the two countries. From the enduring pain over atrocities committed during colonial rule to calls...
Mozambique: Wiped out more than 40 years ago, rhinos make their return More than four decades after they were driven to extinction in the region, rhinos are once again roaming the wilds of Mozambique following an ambitious project to relocate a number of the animals from neighbouring South Africa.
Algerian War: The enduring trauma of forced disappearances During Algeria's war of independence, thousands of people were arrested by the French authorities, never to return home. While many are believed to have died in custody or have been assassinated by French forces, families of those...
Dozens killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso Suspected jihadists killed at least 34 people in attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso at the weekend, officials and sources said Monday.
Sudan's Burhan says army stepping back for civilian government In tonight's edition: Days after one of the bloodiest crackdowns on protests against an army take over in Sudan, the head of the military announces the dissolution of the governing sovereign council to make way for a civilian...
Sudan’s Burhan says army will make way for civilian government Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Monday the army would make way for a civilian government, a demand made for months by street protesters and repeatedly called for by the international community.
‘We will not compromise’: Hundreds in Sudan continue protests against military rule Hundreds of Sudanese protesters demanding an end to military rule took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its suburbs for a fourth straight day Sunday, witnesses said.