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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed Emmanuel Tutuba, previously a permanent secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Planning, to the position of central bank governor. Tutuba replaces Florens Luoga, who reached the end…

Mozambique, Ecuador, Japan, Malta, and Switzerland got a formal welcome into the U.N. Security Council, taking the two-year seats they won unopposed in June. In a tradition that Kazakhstan started in 2018, the five countries' ambassadors…

Nine people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda's capital, police said on Sunday. After fireworks outside the Freedom City mall in Kampala, "a stampede ensued, resulting…

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…