Africa

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to…

UK foreign secretary David Lammy has signed bilateral agreements in Cape Town with his South African counterpart. The talks he held with Ronald Lamola were aimed at bolstering the relationship between the two nations, which have agreed…

Kenyan private sector saw a modest improvement in business conditions in October, as activity levels and employment returned to growth, an S&P Global survey showed on Tuesday. The headline Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to…

Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby has threatened to withdraw the Central African country from a multinational security force, which he said had failed in its task of tackling insurgent groups in the Lake Chad region. Deby made…

Britain's Prince William began a four-day trip to South Africa on Monday by meeting young environmentalists and playing rugby with local schoolchildren in Cape Town. The trip is centred on William's annual Earth shot Prize, which on…

At least 25 people died off Comoros islands after traffickers capsized their boat, the United Nations' migration agency IOM said, the third such incident in three months. "IOM Comoros is saddened to hear about the deaths of at least 25…

Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's eastern El Gezira state late last month. They accused her of…

By  Adoba Echono Nigerian Government, the Economic Community of West African States, alongside Morocco and Mauritania, have expressed their commitment to push forward in the development of the African Atlantic Gas Pipeline…

After more than a decade as a lawyer at high-powered banking firms like Goldman Sachs and Société Générale, Nigerian-British Kelechi Ejikeme left the corporate world to follow her passion for interior design. Her rug collection is…

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a bid to push them out of the mine.…