A day of national mourning decreed by the Congolese authorities is observed Wednesday in the Republic of Congo, in memory of 31 young people who died in a stampede Monday evening in Brazzaville during an army recruitment operation.
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The group has been under sanction by the United Nations Security Council since 2012. Its fighters are accused of numerous murders, mutilations, rapes, forced population displacements, and recruitment of children.
The Somali army will be able to take over from the African Union forces expected to leave the country at the end of 2024, assured Tuesday Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, who considered the results obtained in the offensive, currently on pause,...
President Ramaphosa chaired Tuesday a virtual extraordinary meeting on the sitution in the Mideast.The bloc urged Israel and Hamas to "exercise maximum restraint" and 'reaffirmed that a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could only b...
Tupac Shakur, a renowned hip-hop artist, was killed on September 7, 1996, at the age of 25. He was associated with Death Row Records, linked to the Los Angeles street gang Mob Piru, which had a feud with the South Side Compton Crips.
Dozens of supporters of Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina queued to collect their party cards on Tuesday, believing it entitled them to cash days after a presidential election boycotted by most opposition candidates.
After nearly two decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations stabilisation mission in Congo (MONUSCO) has signed a deal to withdraw its 15,000 peacekeepers.
France-born Myziane Maolida scored just before halftime in the archipelago nation's capital of Moroni and Comoros held on to record its latest upset of the Black Stars. Comoros now leads African qualifying Group I.
A second round of negotiations between the Ethiopian government and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) aimed at ending a five-year insurgency in Oromia, Ethiopia's largest and most populous regional state, has ended without agreement, the two parties anno...
The Ethiopian government and the OLF announced separately on Tuesday evening that a second round of negotiations in Tanzania had ended without agreement, blaming each other for the failure of the talks, which are being mediated by Igad alongside the Un...
