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Namibia's newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged on Friday to boost investments in the agricultural sector and diversify the resource-focused economy in an attempt to address high unemployment rates. Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72,…

Ethiopia has reached an agreement in principle with its official creditors during debt default negotiations, the country's state finance minister said on Friday. The East African nation opted to restructure its external debt under the…

Thousands are without lifesaving aid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo due to critical funding gaps, the United Nations Refugee agency said on Friday. "Critical funding gaps are severely hampering humanitarian efforts in…

Ethiopia had issued its first investment banking licenses to two local companies, the latest effort by the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to open up the economy of more than 100 million people to private capital. State-run…

Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Kamel Maddouri less than a year after his appointment amid a faltering economy and a growing number of migrants arriving from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Maddouri was replaced by…

Two years into a civil war, the Sudanese army troops recaptured the presidential palace from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, on Friday. Video and photographs are posted on social media, showing jubilant soldiers waving their…

Nearly 70,000 South Africans have shown interest in relocating to the United States following Washington’s initiative to resettle members of the country’s Afrikaner community, according to a business group. The South African Chamber of…

In a nutrition ward at a hospital in Sudan's war-stricken capital, children are malnourished due to lack of aid supplies, gaunt mothers lie next to even thinner toddlers with wide, sunken eyes. The patients at Alban Jadeed Hospital are…

A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong The case stems from comments Agyapong made about Anas after his BBC…

A bomb attack targeted the convoy of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, soon after the motorcade left the grounds of the presidential palace, in Somalia on Tuesday, but the president emerged unharmed. According to various eyewitness…