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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...

More than 200 die in southern Ethiopia landslides The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia rose to at least 229, a local official in the remote Gofa Zone said on Tuesday, as the search for survivors continued into the second day. The landslides occurred on Sunday evening and...

Ghana’s struggling economy: Can IMF-backed deal help it recover? Ghana has reached an agreement in principle with two bondholder groups to restructure some $13bn of international debt last month, marking a key step in the country's economic recovery under an International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Families of detained South African engineers call for their release from E. Guinea It's been over a year since two South African engineers were jailed in Equatorial Guinea. The UN says they are being arbitrarily detained while some suspect their detention could be linked to an ongoing standoff...

Nigeria : artist seeks world record with largest hand-drawn artwork In Nigeria, Fola David, has made history by surpassing the existing Guinness World Record (GWR) for the world's largest drawing by an individual. The massive artwork, spanning an impressive 850 square meters, surpassed the...

The United States announces over $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced over $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan. In April, world leaders had promised more than $2 billion in...

Kenyan president William Ruto names new partial cabinet in an attempt to address youth grievances Kenyan President William Ruto reinstated 11 ministers on Friday, in the embryo of an “enlarged government”, more than a week after sacking almost his entire cabinet. This new decision reflects his...

In South Africa, the scope of the cyber outage highlights the fragility of a digitized world In South Africa, at least two major banks have experienced service disruptions, following the cyber outage that has hit airports, banks and hospitals across the world. Customers complained that they...

81% of Ghana's cocoa harvest infested with bean disease Cocoa production in Ghana is now reported to be half of the average seasonal output. The west-African nation is the world’s second largest producer of the crop and continued slump in its cocoa harvests have led the market price to escalate...

Tunisia’s President Saied says will seek re-election amid intensified ‘crackdown on opposition’ Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said Friday he will stand for re-election in an October vote. The announcement comes after Amnesty International said earlier this week that Tunisian authorities had...

Kenya's embattled Ruto names new partial cabinet In tonight's edition, Kenyan President unveils his new cabinet following weeks of deadly anti-government protests. William Ruto says his country is in urgently need of transformation. Also, airports, banking and healthcare, all hit by a massive...

Rwanda’s Kagame wins fourth term with 99.18% of the vote, provisional results show With a 99.18% vote share in the 2024 presidential elections, according to full provisional results published Thursday, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame secured an even greater margin than in the last vote in 2017...

Kenyan police ban protests in Nairobi after deadly anti-govt demonstrations Kenyan police have banned rallies in the capital Nairobi, after protests in the capital turned violent. The rallies against proposed tax hikes started last month and continued after the legislation was withdrawn. The...

Cameroon :a tribute to saxphonist Manu Dibango Cameroon's capital Yaoundé recently held a photographic exhibition paying tribute to famous saxophonist Manu Dibango, who died of Covid in 2020The exhibition “Soul Makossa Man”, was bought to life by journalist and photographer Samuel Nja'kwa, who...