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Activists attending the COP27 climate conference in Egypt held a demonstration, calling on countries to stop funding new gas projects in Africa. Faced with an energy crisis because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, western nations have been…

Diamond tycoon and political maverick Sam Matekane has taken the oath as Lesotho's new prime minister at a packed soccer stadium in the southern African kingdom's capital of Maseru. The 64-year-old political novice, who arrived at his…

Chad's prime minister resigned on Tuesday, the day after General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno announced the appointment of a "government of national unity", N'Djamena said, after extending his two-year term as president for a period of…

An art project in South African village of Hamburg, created by people affected by HIV, is now being exhibited in Johannesburg more than 15 years after it was completed. The Keiskamma art project gathered together over 130 women to weave…

President of Kenya, William Ruto, addressed a joint sitting of Parliament, with members of both the Senate and the National Assembly convening for the address. Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula and his Senate counterpart…

Senegal President Macky Sall appoints new prime minister a position he abolished in 2019 and reinstated last year, after July's tense legislative elections. A presidential decree named Amadou Ba, a former foreign minister, as the new…

Kenya newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the government's agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030. "In our country, women…

Renewed conflict in the north, crippling drought and stubbornly high inflation: Ethiopians rang in their new year with little to celebrate. At a livestock market in the capital Addis Ababa, traders and visitors alike bemoaned the various…

Burundi officially has appointed new Prime Minister, General Gervais Ndirakobuca was unanimously confirmed in his new position by Burundian lawmakers Wednesday. The 113 MPs approved the proposal of president Evariste Ndayishimiye who…

A committee set up by President Archange Touadéra, to draft a new constitution has been created in the Central African Republic, a country that has been in civil war for nine years, according to a decree signed by the President. The…