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The polling stations have closed in the DRC, and the process of counting votes has begun in Lubumbashi, a town in the southern region of this vast central African nation. The election, which unfolded against a backdrop of economic…

Egyptians living abroad began voting for the presidential election in their country, a vote for which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is the big favourite and at the end of which he could begin a third term. This early election is…

Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on Monday began demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against sub-standard housing and illegal migration Diggers started destroying Majicavo slum at early Monday…

Ethiopian federal government and a rebel group from the country's Oromia region opened peace talks in the Tanzanian island archipelago of Zanzibar, according to a spokesperson for the militants. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the…

The Community of East African States (EAC) announced that the next set of peace talks on situation in eastern DRC will take place in Kenya on 21st November. The announcement coincided with more fighting on Sunday near Goma between…

Tunisian oil operations to begin after shipwreck, the Equatorial Guinea-flagged oil tanker, Xelo, which sank in the Gulf of Gabes along Tunisia, has been checked with divers finding no leaks from fuel-laden ship. “The Tunisia branch of…