Internet disruptions across the continent because of multiple undersea cable faults are showing just how precarious Africa’s connection the digital economy really is.
Uganda’s veteran leader Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son to head the country’s defence forces, the East African nation’s government said, capping a dizzying rise for Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
With the second elections of the year in Africa, due in Senegal on Sunday, already troubled – after a disputed one in the Comoros in January – democracy on the continent is like “a ship in troubled waters”, according to the AU.
Unidentified youths shot dead 15 people in South Sudan’s Pibor region, including its commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, in the latest flare-up of violence in the country.
Western countries may not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin secured 87.8% of the vote from a record turnout of 77.5%, but these aren’t strange numbers for African countries. This week, those countries congratulated Putin on his achievement, vowing their continued friendship with Russia.
A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said.
Kenya has chosen opposition leader Raila Odinga to challenge for the African Union Commission chairperson’s job, which will be vacant in February next year.
Clashes have broken out between government forces and M23 rebels leaving eight UN peacekeepers injured after a brief lull in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said.
The Gambian parliament will vote on a bill to reverse the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) on Monday, which rights groups say could mark a return to women’s rights violations in the largely Muslim West African nation.
South Sudan on Saturday said it would close schools and told children not to play outside as temperatures were set to soar to an exceptional 45 degrees Celsius.
Russia says its full-scale invasion of Ukraine has claimed the lives of 14 South African mercenaries out of 35 fighting on the side of Kyiv since the start of the war in 2022.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has resolved to lift a 21-year moratorium on death penalty executions as part of measures to stop its citizens, and serving military and police, from working with M23 rebels in the eastern part of the country.
While Nigerian soldiers search the forests in the northwestern state for the 280 learners kidnapped by gunmen riding motorbikes, desperate families are still waiting for news
Senegalese opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate he is backing in the March 24 election, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, were released from prison on Thursday, state broadcaster RTS said on its website.
The leader of an apostolic sect in Zimbabwe was charged with exploiting minors on Thursday after police said hundreds of children were abused at his church’s farm.