Africa

Tanzania's president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has announced that a sample from an isolated part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease. "Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed…

At least seven people were killed during a violent confrontation with soldiers at a mine in Ghana’s Ashanti region, according to the military. The Ghana Armed Forces reported that around 60 illegal miners breached the AngloGold Ashanti…

Nigeria and Egypt have reaffirmed commitment to enhance the relationship between Egypt and Nigeria to a Comprehensive Partnership of mutual respect for each nation’s unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.  This was disclosed in a…

The latest contingent of 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince where they were greeted by Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime. They are being deployed to the Caribbean country to provide back-up to an…

Home-grown businesses in Africa are developing a new industry to tackle the environmental damage created by fast fashion. Upcycling, where poor quality, discarded clothes are made into desirable products, is becoming more widespread in…

Police in South Sudan imposed a nationwide night-time curfew, a day after deadly rioting in the capital, Juba. Three people were killed and seven others were wounded in protests late on Thursday when youths attacked shops owned by…

Dr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last nine months in Sudan's western Darfur region.…

The ministry of justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a probe into the embezzlement of over $300 million from state miner Gecamines between 2012 and 2020, According to the justice ministry statement, Gecamines, which…

Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials and residents said. The blackouts began on Monday…

Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a local newspaper, a contentious element of negotiations in which the UK plans to cede control of the Chagos Islands…