ABUJA - Five kidnapped Nigerian sisters have been rescued after their abduction and the death of another sister triggered a public outcry, police said on Sunday.
GAZA STRIP - Fighting raged across Gaza and Israeli units raided the West Bank on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected calls for post-war "Palestinian sovereignty." Alongside fierce fighting in southern Gaza and across the besieged territory, strikes in Syria and Iraq raised fears of a wider conflagration.
KAMPALA - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to open dialogue to settle their dispute over Ethiopia's maritime deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland.
The government of war-torn Sudan has informed the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, IGAD, an eight-country trade bloc, that it is suspending its membership in the east Africa bloc, the foreign ministry said Saturday.
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in for a second five-year term on Saturday, despite refusal by the opposition to recognize his election victory, citing widespread irregularities in the December general election.
BRUSSELS - Belgium's main museum dedicated to Africa has started delving into the origins of its enormous collection, as a first step towards possible restitution of items that were obtained in violent ways during colonial times.
N'DJAMENA - Chad's former opposition leader Succes Masra won a resounding vote of confidence as prime minister on Friday from MPs appointed by the military government.
ABUJA - Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged for his alleged role in what authorities call an attempted coup, left the country and arrived in Nigeria on Friday, sources told AFP.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said Friday, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza.
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Record inflation, a sliding naira currency and weak financial structure are keeping investors wary of Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, with some companies stepping away despite economic reforms under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
PARIS - Ukraine warned Thursday that its army faced a "very real and pressing" ammunition shortage in its grinding near-two-year battle against Russia, as Western allies met in Paris to agree new artillery supplies.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Authorities in Kenya say a donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb has blown up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others.
KAMPALA - Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Bobi Wine said on Thursday police had surrounded his residence and put him "under house arrest" ahead of a planned protest.
MOMBASA — A Kenyan court on Thursday charged the leader of a starvation cult with terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers.
DAKAR - Karim Wade, son and minister of former President Abdoulaye Wade (2000-2012), renounced his French nationality, which prevented his candidacy for the Senegalese presidential election in February.
Security forces in the Comoros clashed Wednesday with protesters angered by the re-election of President Azali Assoumani, as opposition leaders denounced this week’s vote as fraudulent.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Shell has reached an agreement with a consortium of companies to sell its onshore business in Nigeria's Niger Delta in a deal worth $2.4 billion.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories - Israel pummeled Gaza on Tuesday but reached a deal with Hamas to deliver medicines to hostages and desperately needed aid to civilians in the war-torn Palestinian territory following Qatari and French mediation.
LONDON-US rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs has agreed to withdraw allegations of racism against drinks giant Diageo, the company said Tuesday six months after ending their business link-up.
GOMA — The Democratic Republic of Congo's government is counting on soldiers from a southern African regional bloc to help it regain ground from the M23 militia in the lawless east, a senior army officer said Tuesday.
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