Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday called for “peace and consolation” for victims of “injustice, political stability, religious persecution and terrorism”, citing Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and Congo
The al-Shabab extremist group continues to pose the greatest immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the wider region, including neighboring Kenya, UN experts warned in a report released Wednesday.
For the first time since its creation, the Mali Cultural and Artistic Biennial, founded in the aftermath of independence, is being held in Timbuktu, in the north of the country.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement stood out as the year’s most significant achievement, calling it “a powerful example of what multilateralism can deliver when countries choose cooperation over division”
We explore how Africa’s booming creative industry is transforming cultural influence into hard, bankable collateral while Dar es Salaam’s Megacity Challenge – Traffic gridlock is tightening its grip on Tanzania’s commercial capital as the city edges toward megacity status.
Some Kenyans on Wednesday protested after roaming elephants killed four people over the past week in what experts describe as human–wildlife conflict driven by scarcity of vegetation.
For the Sudanese people, AFCON 2025 is more than just a football tournament; it is a rare beacon of hope. As Sudan endures more than two and a half years of devastating war, fans have flocked to Morocco, eager to witness their team bring a moment of joy amidst the hardship.
Emmanuel Ibrahim, a social studies teacher at St. Mary’s School in Papiri is one of several hundred students and teachers who were abducted from the school, in Niger State, in an early morning attack in November
Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969.
South Africa's Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has raised urgent concerns about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, questioning why peace remains elusive despite years of agreements.
Burkina Faso’s military ruler Ibrahim Traore took over the rotating presidency of the Alliance of Sahel States on Tuesday, at a summit in Mali’s capital Bamako. He called for "large-scale" operations against extremists "in the coming days."
Matchday One of AFCON 2025 wrapped up last night in Morocco, with all 24 teams having now played their opening game. Four fixtures were on the schedule across Groups E and F, starting in Casablanca, the country’s economic and industrial capital, where Burkina Faso faced Equatorial Guinea.
At least 5 people were killed and 35 others injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.
As Central African Republic gets ready for Sunday’s general election, the country’s electoral authority, backed by the MINUSCA peacekeeping force, is training more than a thousand polling workers in the commune of Bimbo.
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