The IMF said on Friday that sub-Saharan Africa faces its “most challenging environment in years." "We are projecting growth, last year which was a bit above 4 [percent] is now going to be at 3.6% in 2022,” said the IMF's African department chief, Abebe Aemro Selassie.
Captain Ibrahim Traore, who led the latest coup in Burkina Faso, was on Friday named interim president until elections are held in July 2024, two members of the ruling junta told AFP.
Nigerian university lecturers on Friday suspended an eight-month strike over pay, welfare and crumbling facilities, the latest industrial dispute to hit Africa's most populous nation.
At least 11 people were killed and 53 injured when a bus hit an explosive device in central Mali on Thursday, according to a local hospital source.
A Moroccan court has handed heavy prison terms to 15 Sudanese migrants arrested after a June tragedy at a Spanish border during which two dozen migrants died, their lawyer said Thursday.
Africa and Ukraine are in "the same boat," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday, accusing Moscow of triggering a global crisis that has left the continent reeling from food shortages.
Malawian health authorities Thursday called on the United Nations to assist the southern African nation with more cholera vaccines, amid an outbreak that has claimed 128 lives to date and fears of the water-borne disease claiming more lives.
Chad's newly appointed interim Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo said Wednesday that "all freedoms" and "human rights in all their forms" must be respected as the country works towards installing a civilian government.
Hundreds of Tunisians clashed with police on Wednesday during a protest to demand a rescue mission for relatives lost at sea during a failed migration attempt. Some, also angered by the burial of three suspected Tunisians in a cemetery for foreign migrants, burned tires and threw rocks at police.
About 500 people have been killed and 1.4 million displaced from their homes in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade after the start of the rainy season, according to the government.
The United States and other Western powers on Wednesday urged Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels to start African Union-led peace talks, warning of humanitarian risks if the renewed conflict persists.
Veteran politician and former opposition figure Saleh Kebzabo has been appointed Chad's next prime minister, according to a decree issued Wednesday by military leader and interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
The United Nations emergency response agency, OCHA, says at least 900,000 people were affected by floods in South Sudan, a figure which is double the estimates of last month amid torrential rains that have ravaged crops and destroyed homes.
Chad's prime minister resigned along with his government on Tuesday, a day after the country's military leader announced the creation of a "government of national union" to chart the path to new elections.
When Wuri Bailo Keita's two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with malaria and sent home with a prescription for a paracetamol syrup. Less than a week later she was dead.
Tunisia's defense ministry said Tuesday that it intercepted nearly 200 migrants attempting to reach Europe northwards through the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend.
Qatar's tightly-controlled media on Monday hit back at European criticism of the Gulf state's human rights record ahead of the World Cup, which the country has spent billions of dollars to host.
The prime ministers of Algeria and France Monday hailed a "new dynamic" as they launched a joint economic forum during a visit by France's Elisabeth Borne to Algiers.
A millionaire political novice won the most votes in Lesotho's legislative elections but fell short of securing a parliamentary majority, officials said on Monday.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne starts a visit to Algeria on Sunday with a top-level delegation, pushing for better ties with the former French colony and major gas exporter.
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