Africa

Upon his arrival in Cairo, Kenya's President William Ruto signed twelve bilateral agreements with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The deals, aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties, cover key sectors such as trade,…

Kenyan National Seed Bank stores more than 50,000 varieties of seed. Founded in 1988, the facility has the goal of protecting seeds for research and reintroduction to farms. The centre has become all the more important in the face of…

Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo's largest city, including its airport, the United Nations said, as Rwanda's president on Wednesday joined calls for a ceasefire in the decadeslong conflict. Much of the…

An initiative to connect 300 million Africans to electricity in the next six years has won new pledges worth more than $8 billion from lenders, including the Islamic Development Bank and the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. The…

A plane carrying 21 passengers and crew in South Sudan's Unity State has crashed, killing 18 people, United Nations' Radio Miraya reported on Wednesday. The plane had departed from an oilfield in the northern state when it crashed,…

Thousands of people took to the streets of Niamey and several other towns across Niger on Tuesday. They were responding to a call by the civil society M62 movement to mark the day that Niger, together with Burkina Faso and Mali, exited…

Refugees, surrendering Congolese soldiers and stranded truckers thronged the Rwandan border on Tuesday, hoping to reach safety after rebels captured the nearby Congolese city of Goma and spurred them to flee. Gunfire and explosions could…

The United Nations has issued a stark warning about the dire humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fighting between the army and M23 rebels has spread to Goma, a city of about two million locals and internally…

Fighting across the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed to…

Mozambique's Maputo port began construction on the first phase of its planned $2 billion expansion project on Monday, a senior port official said. The $164 million first phase will more than double the container terminal's capacity from…