Voters join long queues to cast their ballots during a landmark local election in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland -- their first direct ballot in more than half a century. They are the first one-person one-vote elections since 1969 when dic...
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Kuleba is currently on a tour of Africa, where he made an appeal from Addis Ababa on Wednesday to Ukraine's "African friends" to end their declared neutrality in the war.
Around forty environmental activists and religious figures chained themselves together on a footbridge over the Seine in Paris Thursday, protesting TotalEnergies' megaprojects in Uganda and Tanzania.
According to legend, slaves who won their freedom fighting on the British side of the American War of Independence prayed under the tree when they arrived in West Africa.
'I never dreamt of becoming a comedian. I didn’t even know what stand-up was,' Akau Jambo heartily confesses. The South Sudanese shared bits of his journey and goals ahead of the second edition of Juba's International comedy festival taking place on Ma...
Ibidhi grows rare flowers used in medicine and cooking, has been awarded the prize for the "best businesswoman" in her country in 2021.
Africa must not become a "geostrategic battleground", stated Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, on Thursday, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Uni...
According to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Fulgence Kayishema was arrested Wednesday in Paarl, a small town in a wine-making region about 30 miles east of Cape Town.
"At around 08:20, the bodies of two women and two men aged between 40 and 50 were discovered with gunshot wounds," the police said in a statement. "The victims are believed to be of Bulgarian origin.
Doumi’s appointment marks another huge leap in women’s engagement in Moroccan football, which remains largely male-dominated.
