Africa

The United States has accused Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide and imposed sanctions on its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

Kenya's economic growth slowed in the third quarter of 2024 from the same period a year earlier due to underperformance in most sectors of the economy, the statistics office said on Tuesday. The economy (KEGDPQ=ECI opens a new that grew…

Mauritius has issued an arrest order for its former finance minister, Renganaden Padayachy, in relation to a probe into alleged embezzlement, a police notice in local newspapers said on Tuesday, days after the arrest of the former central…

Kenya's shilling was slightly firmer on Tuesday but was expected to weaken due to increased demand for dollars from manufacturing and oil retailing companies, traders said. At 0809 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at…

John Dramani Mahama will be sworn in for his second term as Ghana's president on Tuesday with a fresh mandate to tackle familiar challenges, including corruption, high unemployment, inflation, and disgruntled public. The opposition…

Five Nigerian governors are in Accra, Ghana, to attend the inauguration of President-elect John Dramani Mahama, scheduled to take place on Tuesday at the iconic Black Star Square. Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, alongside…

Pan-African activist and leader Stellio Gilles Robert Capo-Chichi, better known as Kémi Séba, has declared his candidacy for Benin’s presidential election scheduled for April 2026. In a ten-minute video statement shared on his social…

Senegal and neighbouring Mauritania have achieved a historic milestone as gas producers, using the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim field, which straddles the maritime border between the two countries. British company BP, one of the businesses…

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians flocked to attend Christmas Eve mass across the predominantly Muslim country on Monday evening. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attended mass at the Cathedral of Nativity of Christ in the New…

The Mozambique opposition leader who has been heading more than two months of deadly protests against disputed election results from outside the country announced that he would return this week ahead of the inauguration of the new…