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Kenya and the UK have signed a five-year Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) to tackle shared threats across East Africa. The two countries signed the agreement in a side event during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s three-day Guest of…

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine to all 55 member-states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. Some 35…

According to the World Health Organisation, the worst is yet to come as the third wave gathers pace on the continent. Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic. The WHO’s regional director for Africa, Dr…

The Central African Republic (CAR) and Chad have called on the United Nations and African Union to investigate an incident at a border post in which at least six Chadian soldiers were killed by Central African troops, a joint statement…

Cameroon on Wednesday sets some illegal firearms on fire as part of efforts to fight crimes and eliminate threats from terrorism in the Central African nation. The destroyed weapons were those confiscated by defence and security forces, as…

The raging state of the COVID-19 pandemic in India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union’s disease control agency warned on Thursday. African nations generally do…

The resolution over the election impasse in Somalia now lies with the African Union after all stakeholders agreed that the continental body should initiate the mediation process. The AU Security Council was scheduled to hold a special…

The African Union Peace and Security Council has announced that it will hold a meeting today Thursday 22 April 2021, at 12:30pm EAT over the situation in Chad and Somalia. “The late President Déby played a key role in promoting the African…

Among those who eulogised Deby was Félix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo and current President of the African Union. President Tshisekedi said he was "appalled" and that the death is "a great loss for Chad and Africa as a whole".…

The African Union expresses its deepest condolences to the family and the people of The Republic of Chad following the untimely passing of H.E. President Idriss Déby. "The late President Déby played a key role in promoting the African…