LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a major parliamentary showdown on Wednesday over his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, with many of his own lawmakers threatening to rebel after they lost an initial bid to toughen his proposed law.
IBADAN, NIGERIA — At least two people were killed and dozens injured when explosives stored at a private residence detonated in Nigeria's Oyo state, its governor said on Wednesday.
Food price increases in Nigeria have seen the consumer inflation rate in Africa's largest economy hit its highest level since 1996. David Doyle of Reuters has more.
NAIROBI — Kenya on Tuesday embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project yet, beginning the difficult work of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered animals — which can each weigh over a ton — to a new home.
MORONI — Comoros' President Azali Assoumani won a fourth five-year term after being declared by the country's electoral body on Tuesday following Sunday's election in which he contested against five opponents.
KORHOGO, IVORY COAST — Namibia’s “Brave Warriors” on Tuesday won their first game in AFCON history, after defeating Tunisia in their opening match at this year’s edition of the tournament.
British energy major Shell on Tuesday said it will sell its problematic onshore operations in Nigeria to a consortium of mostly local companies as it exits part of its business that has operated since the 1930s. David Doyle of Reuters has more details.
CAIRO — Sudan has suspended its involvement in mediation efforts with IGAD, a group of East African nations that sought to broker talks between the army and the paramilitary force it has been fighting for months, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
South Africa's Transnet is working to clear the country's main coal export railway line after two trains collided on Sunday, the firm said on Tuesday, without saying when services would be restored.
KIGALI — Rwanda said on Tuesday it had killed a soldier from Democratic Republic of Congo and captured two others on its territory in the latest friction on their border.
MOGADISHU — A suicide bomb blast in Somalia's capital city Mogadishu killed three people and injured two others, authorities said on Tuesday, with the militant group al-Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack.
NAIROBI — Tanzania has withdrawn approval for Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways to operate flights between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's commercial capital, its civil aviation authority said Monday.
YAMOUSSOUKRO — Senegal’s “Lions of Teranga” on Monday began their Africa Cup of Nations title defense with a 3-0 victory over 10-man Gambia, bringing an end to a sequence of surprise results at the tournament held in Ivory Coast.
ABUJA — Nigeria's inflation rate rose to its highest in more than 27 years in December as food prices surged, exacerbating a cost-of-living crisis and piling more pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates.
ABIDJAN — Ghanaian football authorities on Monday said police in Ivory Coast took away an angry fan that tried to strike Chris Hughton, the national team’s coach, following Sunday’s upsetting loss to Cape Verde at the Africa Cup of Nations.
KINSHASA — Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi's UDPS party won 66 seats in the December parliamentary election, placing it ahead of 44 other parties that won one or more seats in the 500-member house, provisional results showed on Sunday.
DAR ES SALAAM — The collapse of an illegal small-scale gold mine has killed at least 22 people in northern Tanzania following heavy rains, a senior government official said on Sunday.
MORONI — Voting was under way in Comoros on Sunday in an election widely expected to hand a fourth five-year term to President Azali Assoumani, who faces five opponents in a vote some opposition leaders have boycotted.
ABIDJAN — Ivory Coast's Seko Fofana and Jean-Philippe Krasso scored in each half as the hosts completed a 2-0 Group A victory over Guinea Bissau in the Africa Cup of Nations opening game played in energy-sapping humidity on Saturday.
ABIDJAN — Cameroonian football officials on Saturday said the captain of the national football team, Vincent Aboubakar was injured in training and could yet be forced out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals.
Load more
