#Africa

FIFA President Gianni Infantino promised further resources for Africa as the continent’s 54 member associations on Thursday pledged their unconditional support for his reelection in March in a big boost ...

“I think that there’s a strategy to divide and conquer and to create a very contrived confusion,” said Samuel Okuzeto Ablakwan, Ghana’s foreign minster. “We denounce and totally ...

At least 100 people have been killed in a landslide at a makeshift gold mine in the Central African Republic, according to local sources on Wednesday. The collapse occurred on Tuesday ...

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in ...

Pope Leo on Wednesday urged Cameroon’s government to root out corruption and resist “the whims of the rich and powerful”, in a forceful speech given in the presence of ...

Pope Leo set off on Monday for an ambitious 10-day tour of four countries in Africa, in a bid tourge global leaders ​to address the needs on the continent where ...

Benin’s finance minister Romuald Wadagni was expected to coast to victory in a presidential election on Sunday, buoyed by strong economic growth and the absence of a credible challenger ...

Morocco’s successful staging of the Africa Cup of Nations means there should be no scepticism about its ability to co-host the World Cup with Portugal and Spain in 2030, even ...

Uganda’s opposition candidate Bobi Wine said he was beaten alongside his aides and supporters by security forces while campaigning in the country’s north, in an escalation of violence ...

More than 300 children and staff are thought to have been abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria this week, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded there. The Christian ...

The foreign ministry on Friday called on Cypriot citizens who are in Tanzania or who intend to travel to the east African country to exercise caution as civil unrest broke ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a meeting with Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo. Kombos attended the meeting on behalf of the European Union’s foreign affairs chief ...

The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of the eastern town of Lubero after fleeing nearby clashes ...

Heads of state of eight-member East African Community regional block on Wednesday called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, they said in a statement. They also called ...

African elephants are Earth’s largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study ...

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed his support for stronger relations with Cyprus. He made the remarks when the Cypriot High Commissioner to Ghana, who is based in ...

Nigeria on Monday said the “unelected” military authorities in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso were letting their people down with their joint decision to leave the Economic Community of West ...

On Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021. They leave behind them 310 ...

There has been an increase in Syrian asylum application, the interior ministry said on Thursday, while noting that the cases are difficult to deal with as the people concerned cannot ...

And why would East African Asian refugees support dumping other refugees in a part of the world they themselves were forced to leave? A lot can happen in British politics ...

The leader of a coup that ousted Gabon’s President Ali Bongo was sworn in as interim president and cheered by jubilant supporters on Monday in a televised ceremony designed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with the Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Theodoros II on Monday, when they discussed a Hellenic centre being built in Cairo and humanitarian missions in the rest ...

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations’ ...

I am so ashamed as an African, l am so ashamed as an asylum seeker here in Cyprus. We left our home countries because of insecurity. We found shelter in ...