After more than two years of conflict, Sudan is facing a deepening energy crisis as the country’s oil production and refining capacity collapse. Fighting has forced the shutdown of major oil fields and refineries, leaving production severely disrupted and crippling the nation’s energy supply.
After the Sudanese army pushed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces out of Khartoum, business is slowly returning to the city's central market. In other parts of the country, the conflict rages on.
A tragic road crash south of Johannesburg has claimed the lives of thirteen schoolchildren.
Police say a minibus transporting pupils to school collided with a truck near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark, about sixty kilometers from Johannesburg.
Across western Kenya, a group of female motorcycle riders known as the Boda Girls are helping bridge a critical gap in maternal health care. Trained not only in motorcycle riding but also in basic maternal health and patient care, many of the women are nurses or community health workers.
Benin's population voted for its next National Assembly (parliament) on 11 January. The results of the elections were announced Saturday evening: the government-affiliated parties got all seats, while the main opposition party failed to get past the 20% of district votes requirement.
South Africa has declared a national disaster over torrential rains and floods that have killed at least 30 people in the country's north, damaged thousands of homes and washed away roads and bridges.
In Minneapolis, fear of being arrested by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has left businesses closed and shops without customers. The Somali community is particularly afraid after having repeatedly been targeted by US president Donald Trump.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is touring Sudan, meeting families displaced by the country’s ongoing conflict in his first official visit since November 2022.
The foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus were in Cairo on Sunday for talks with their Egyptian counterpart. Their discussions included the situation in Gaza and the implementation of the second phase of a US peace plan.
AFCON 2025 concluded with a dramatic finale as Senegal defeated hosts Morocco to be crowned champions of Africa, capping a tournament filled with surprises, emotion and unforgettable moments on and off the pitch.
Severe flooding has forced the evacuation of around 600 tourists and staff from South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park, after torrential rains submerged roads and camps across the vast wildlife reserve.
Sierra Leone marked its first National Day of Remembrance on Sunday in honor of the victims of the country’s ten year civil war that killed some 120,000 people and left thousands of others mutilated and injured.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told the nation on Sunday that his landslide election victory showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the east African country for four decades.
Dakar erupted into celebration late Sunday after Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations, the second time in the last four years that the team has won the title.
Supporters of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni celebrated in Kampala on Saturday after he was declared winner of a seventh term in office. But runner-up Bobi Wine has called the results "fake."
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was in Somalia’s Las Anod on Friday, the first visit to the provincial capital by a head of state in more than 40 years.
Junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya was sworn in Saturday as president of Guinea after he overwhelmingly won last year's presidential election despite an earlier promise not to present himself as a candidate.
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