AFRICA

Poverty, poor infrastructure and natural weather variability are the main contributors to Madagascar’s current food crisis and not climate change, a study released on Thursday...

South Sudan’s government pledged to end child marriage by 2030 in accordance with the African Union’s campaign to end child marriages in the continent. South...

COVID-19 pandemic may cause an increase in new infections and deaths from HIV/AIDS and disrupt preventive measures, said UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima in in...

If a political agreement signed between Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and the military last week is not implemented or fails to receive backing from...

The town of Lalibela, a United Nations World Heritage Site, is the latest in a string of towns the military has retaken and the Ethiopian...

Experts have critiqued Prince William comments suggesting that population growth was responsible for the endangerment of wildlife in Africa. The increasing pressure on the African...

Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo launched joint air and artillery strikes in eastern Congo on Tuesday against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), both countries...

Thomas Thabane, Lesotho’s former prime minister and his current wife, Maesaiah Thabane, on Tuesday were charged over the murder of his estranged wife. The charges...

After being held incommunicado for months, Guinea’s deposed president Alpha Conde was sent to his wife’s home in the capital, Conakry, the military junta announced...

Reports that China could take control of Uganda’s only international airport because of a failure to honour a loan agreement of over $200 million to...

Mohamed al-Faki, one of Sudan’s highest profile politicians had been freed on Monday, a month after he was arrested during the October 25 military coup....

Human Rights Watch has urged the Central African Republic government to coordinate with United Nations peacekeepers to ensure that war crimes suspect Hassan Bouba is...

Botswana on Sunday detected 15 more cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, Health Minister, Edwin Dikoloti said. The new cases add to the four confirmed...

The Burkina Faso government on Sunday evening lifted a suspension on the mobile internet, a week after imposing the ban over security and defense reasons....

A 2019 High Court ruling that decriminalised gay sex in Botswana was upheld on Monday by the Court of Appeal. Monday’s decision in effect struck...

As part of a programme to replenish Rhino’s population, decimated by poaching by European settlers since the 1970s, thirty endangered white rhinos arrived in Rwanda...