Egyptian authorities said 17 people, including foreigners, were missing and 28 others rescued after a tourist yacht capsized off the country's Red Sea coast on…
A Ugandan court awarded damages to 20 people who were arrested, paraded in public and tortured on suspicion of being homosexuals, in a decision hailed…
Tanzania's main opposition leader Freeman Mbowe has been released on bail, his party said November 23, after he was detained just days before local polls.…
Veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on November 20 accused of seeking to compromise national security, after his…
An attack by paramilitary forces that began November 19 evening has left 40 people dead, a medic told AFP from a central Sudan village, following…
Somaliland's opposition leader has won the presidency of the breakaway region of Somalia, according to election results released November 19, an outcome that signalled a…
Three Russians detained in Chad in September have been released, the Russian embassy in N'Djamena said on its Facebook page November 18. The release of…
An opposition leader won elections in Somaliland, casting doubt over whether the semi-autonomous region will honor a deal that will enable Ethiopia to build a…
The UN Security Council on November 18 will take up a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan, where a war…
Gabon's military rulers announced their new constitution had been overwhelmingly approved in a referendum, according to provisional results it published November 17, marking a new…
Senegal's ruling party was on track to get a large majority following weekend legislative elections, media reported on November 18 citing provisional results. President Bassirou…
Gabon extended a night curfew November 16 as it held a referendum on a new constitution the ruling junta says will mark a new chapter…
Navin Ramgoolam was sworn in for his third stint as prime minister of Mauritius on November 13 after his landslide election victory knocked out the…
The African Union's health watchdog said November 14 it has endorsed an mpox test from Morocco, hailing it as a "major milestone" to help combat…
Voters in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of rising tensions in the Horn of Africa, flocked early to polling stations on…
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on November 12 called for vengeance following what he described as attacks against supporters of his Pastef party by the…
A Pretoria court on November 12 found a former South African policeman guilty of shooting dead a young anti-apartheid campaigner in a township east of…
Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam said November 12 his alliance had secured a landslide election victory, after the incumbent prime minister conceded he faced a…
Former Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel was sentenced on November 11 to two years and eight months in prison, raising his cumulative jail time to…
Hundreds of people fleeing war-torn Sudan arrive in neighbouring Egypt every day, a UN official said November 10, adding to more than 1.2 million who…
Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on November 11 conceded defeat in the Indian Ocean island's hotly disputed legislative election. He said his Lepep alliance, led…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 10 promised Moscow's "total support" for Africa, at a conference with African officials in Sochi in southwest Russia. "Our…
Mauritius was voting November 10 in a close-fought parliamentary election, with police at polling stations as the opposition warned about the risk of fraud in…
Workers have recovered 12 bodies following landslides that engulfed a road in the west of Cameroon, a regional official said November 9, adding there is…
Burkina Faso's military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the West African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told AFP on…
