A Pakistani news anchor was shot dead by Kenya police, investigators said Monday, prompting calls for a full probe into what one media rights group branded an "utterly disturbing murder".
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday responded to the investigative panel leading a probe into mismanagement of state funds under his predecessor Jacob Zuma, calling the alleged graft a “crime” against the nation’s people.
Senegal's President Macky Sall, who heads the African Union, on Monday deplored the "lack of coherence" from the world's governing bodies and called for a reform of the system.
Sudan on Monday named a new military commander for troubled Blue Nile state, where recent bitter ethnic clashes over land have left at least 200 people dead and sparked angry demonstrations.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011 revolt who has been jailed for the past three years, officials said Monday.
UPDATED AGAIN TO REFLECT ELECTION, MARKET REACTION: British Conservative Rishi Sunak on Monday became prime minister and the country's first leader of color, after winning a Conservative Party election following a dramatic decision by Boris Johnson to abandon an audacious political comeback.
Uganda's wildlife authority on Friday hailed the sentencing of an ivory trafficker to life in prison.
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma, who himself faces graft charges, on Saturday accused his successor Cyril Ramaphosa of treason just two months before a crunch ANC conference where the latter is expected to seek re-election as party head.
France is pulling out of a 1994 treaty that had the effect of protecting investment in fossil fuels when Europe is retooling towards a greener future, President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday.
Amazon faces a $1 billion lawsuit brought on behalf of millions of UK customers over allegations the U.S. retail giant illegally promotes its own products, a statement said this week.
The US budget deficit fell by half in the past year to $1.38 trillion on the back of a pandemic recovery and as relief spending eased, the government said Friday.
Burkina coup leader says country in 'danger' as he took office Friday as interim president.
Young protesters clashed on Thursday with security forces in the capital Conakry in demonstrations called by an outlawed group against the country's ruling junta. Opposition sources say at least three people were killed.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE TPLF RESPONSE: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has vowed war in Tigray "will end and peace will prevail" ahead of expected talks next week aimed at ending nearly two years of bloodshed.
The UN warned Friday that due to extensive flooding, a camp housing 75,000 Sudanese refugees would receive no food this month.
UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW DEATH TOLL, UN REACTION: Clashes erupted in the Chadian capital N'Djamena on Thursday between police and hundreds of demonstrators at a banned protest over the ruling junta's grip on power.
The United Nations insisted Thursday that the deal on exporting grains from Ukraine is working and must be renewed before it expires next month, with prices already rising on the uncertainty.
Across Africa's most populous country, communities and crops of sorghum, maize, rice and vegetables are under water, with farmers and aid workers warning of a possible food crisis.
Nigerian police forcibly cleared a rally in Lagos on Thursday marking the second anniversary of the country's #EndSARS protests against police brutality and bad governance.
The Ethiopian government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa on Monday, October 24
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