Twelve people were convicted on July 28 in Libya's eastern city of Derna over their role in "managing dam facilities" during last year's deadly floods,…
At least 19 people are dead in Ethiopia after a boat capsized on a river in the country's northwest, a state-run media outlet said on…
South Africa on July 27 said it would deport as soon as possible 95 Libyans arrested at a camp being investigated for running military-style training…
Mali's army and its Russian allies suffered a major setback and significant losses on July 27 while fighting separatists in the country's north, a spokesman…
Days before a nationwide protest over bad governance and a high cost of living, Nigeria is offering its young people jobs in the state-oil company…
Police in Uganda arrested 104 people during anti-corruption protests this week and almost all of them have been charged with public order offenses, a police…
Sudan's agriculture minister said there is no famine in the country and cast doubt on UN-backed data that 755,000 are experiencing catastrophic hunger, rejecting the…
At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency,…
Amnesty International called on the United Nations on July 25 to extend the arms embargo on Darfur to cover all of Sudan, in a report…
At least 25 migrants have died and dozens are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania, the country's news agency AMI said on July 24,…
Crowds gathered around a mud pit containing dead bodies as rescuers pressed on with a desperate search on July 24 for survivors of devastating landslides…
Kenyan President William Ruto on July 24 named four heavyweight opposition politicians to join a "broad-based" cabinet in the wake of more than a month…
The commander of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army for over a year, agreed late on July 23 to ceasefire talks…
Dozens of people who joined scattered anti-corruption rallies in the capital Kampala on July 23 in defiance of an official ban have been charged and…
Amor Nouira, a farmer in Tunisia's Chebika village, has lost hope of saving his prickly pear cacti, ravaged by the cochineal insect spreading across North…
A team of UN investigators said on July 23 they had met in Chad with victims of violence in Sudan's brutal civil war and had…
A Sierra Leone court on July 22 found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses in connection with what authorities have called an attempted…
The death toll from a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 146, a local official said on July…
Police were out in force on the empty streets of the Ugandan capital Kampala on JUly 23 ahead of a planned anti-corruption rally that has…
Sudan's de facto leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on July 21 received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, the government said,…
Nigeria's Dangote refinery is in talks with Libya to secure crude for the 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) plant and will also seek Angolan oil,…
A Tunisian court sentenced opposition party leader Lotfi Mraihi, a potential presidential election candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying,…
Ugandan protesters who said they would press ahead with a banned anti-corruption march on July 16 are "playing with fire", the country's president warned. "Some…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is suffering an "exponential rise" in the number of monkeypox cases, the government said on July 20. Government spokesperson Patrick…
Uganda again rejected UN allegations that it is backing M23 rebels in neighboring DR Congo after Kinshasa summoned the Ugandan charge d'affaires over the issue.…
