Africa’s largest hydropower project GERD delayed by Sudan-Ethiopia talks
Sudan on Monday reiterated its rejection of Ethiopia’s completion of the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
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Libyan conflict has cost $580bn; EU plans military mission
The EU is firming up plans for a military mission to Libya in order to compete for influence with foreign powers there, the EUobserver reported...
South Africa violence, looting ebbs but death toll up to 117
South Africans counted the cost on Thursday of arson and looting that has destroyed hundreds of businesses and killed at least 117 people, as the spasm...
South African crowds rampage, defying calls for end to violence
Crowds looted shops and businesses in South Africa on Wednesday, defying government calls to end a week of violence that has killed more than 70...
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as...
Tigray’s former rulers retake control of Mekelle, Ethiopian government declares ceasefire
The former rulers of Ethiopia’s Tigray region said on Monday they were back in control of the regional capital Mekelle after nearly eight months of...
More than 80 students abducted in attack on Nigerian school
Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and...
Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, dies aged 97
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president who led his country for 27 years and championed Africa’s struggles against apartheid and HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of...
Ethiopian economic reform falls flat, investors flee
When Ethiopia awarded its first private telecom licence last week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed it as the crowning achievement of his plan to open...
J&J to send 2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to S.Africa by end-June
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson would send 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the country by the end...
Attackers kill 88 people in northwest Nigeria
By Garba Muhammad Attackers killed 88 people in Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Thursday, spurring its governor to pledge a bigger deployment of security forces on...
Gun attack on Ugandan ex-army chief kills daughter, driver – military
Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter...
Africa a continent of enormous, but unrealised, economic potential
By Michael Sarris In the years before the pandemic, a combination of factors such as political stability, better macroeconomic and structural policies, improving governance and...
Macron says France will help Africa make more Covid-19 vaccines locally
President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France would invest in boosting the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa, to help close a gap in the...
Germany admits to Namibia genocide, issues apology
Germany on Friday apologised for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as...
Tunisia, close to economic collapse, suffers political chaos
Tunisian politicians and officials warn of an economic collapse if the government cannot agree a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan this summer, but political...
France’s Macron seeks forgiveness over Rwanda genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country’s role in the Rwandan genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday,...
Fears of new eruption sees thousands flee Congoleses city Goma
Thousands of local people and some aid workers scrambled to flee the Congolese city of Goma on Thursday after officials said a second volcanic eruption...
At least 57 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia
At least 57 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy and 33 were rescued,...
Chad President Idriss Deby dies on frontlines, army spokesman says
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the...