Nigeria’s Super Eagles were thrashed 4-0 in a friendly fixture by Portugal, amid preparations by the Portuguese for their 2022 FIFA World Cup campaign which is set to start on the 24th of November in a fixture against the Black Stars of Ghana.
Senegalese football authorities Thursday said star player Sadio Mane will not be part of the national team that will compete at the 2022 FIFA World Cup resulting from a shin injury obtained while playing for Bayern Munich earlier this month.
Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated on Thursday calling for justice for scores of people killed since last year's military coup which deepened the country's political crisis, AFP correspondents said.
Public sector trade unions in South Africa called on Thursday for a one-day national strike to be held next week, after talks with the government over wages collapsed.
A coalition of leading Ugandan rights groups and lawyers on Thursday filed a court challenge to a controversial new internet law, which they say is aimed at curbing free speech and targeting government opponents.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE DRC AIRSTRIKES; The M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has pushed into fresh territory, officials said, after a regional bloc issued a call to lay down arms.
South Africa's parliament said Thursday it would discuss next month the findings of a special panel tasked with establishing whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment for allegedly covering up a crime.
The commander of the East African Community's military force in the Democratic Republic of Congo vowed Wednesday to protect Goma, a key eastern city threatened by advancing M23 rebels.
Germany will end its participation in a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali by the end of next year, a government source told AFP on Wednesday after months of operational snags.
Three candidate vaccines against the strain of Ebola wreaking havoc in Uganda will be shipped to the East African country next week for trials, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
US industrial production retreated last month amid a drop in oil output and as manufacturing posted only a modest gain, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.
US retail sales jumped more than expected in October, bumped up by higher gas prices and auto sales while pointing to resilience in spending in the face of price pressures, according to government data released Wednesday.
UPDATED TO ADD WFP FOOD CONVOY REACHING TIGRAY: As COP27 delegates in Egypt debate planet-heating emissions, the climate crisis is exacerbating devastating hunger across several African nations and will worsen further without urgent action, the UN said Wednesday.
NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular blaze of light and sound that marked the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis.
A pledge by G20 leaders, whose countries account for most global CO2 emissions, to pursue the most ambitious target against global warming breathed new life into fraught UN climate talks in Egypt on Wednesday.
A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday released 14 opposition activists on bail months after they were arrested during clashes with ruling party members at a funeral for an opposition supporter whose mutilated body was found in a well.
Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta arrived Tuesday in Goma, eastern DRC, AFP correspondents saw, as rebels from the M23 rebel group edge closer to the key city.
An Algerian court on Tuesday handed a 15-year prison sentence to the former head of state energy giant Sonatrach in a corruption case involving an Italian refinery, his lawyer said.
Nigeria's famed Benin bronzes -- artefacts stolen during British colonial rule and scattered across the globe -- have a new online archive that aims to become a digital record of the treasures.
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