South Africa's National Assembly approved on Tuesday (June 13) a bill to introduce national health coverage in the country; the opposition fears that the overstretched public health system will collapse.
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The Algerian presidency said in a statement that Tebboune will attend an economic forum to be held this week in the city of St. Petersburg. The visit at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin is officially meant to strengthen relations of “...
On Wednesday (June 14), the death toll from the disaster in Nigeria’s north-central Kwara state boat capsize rose to 106 people as rescue teams searched for more survivors. More than half the victims came from one village, Ebu.
Dozens of women have reported being raped — in their homes, by the roadside and in commandeered hotels — since the war erupted in mid-April between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Mali's junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, discussed security and economic relations between the two countries, their services reported on Wednesday.
Anti-French rhetoric in French-speaking Africa has spread beyond the educated urban elite, and the phenomenon could "take root for a long time", says Alain Antil, a researcher at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), in an interview.
Cameroon's media regulator threatened on Tuesday to suspend distributors of television channels, particularly foreign ones, that broadcast "scenes of homosexuality", in a country that punishes same-sex relations with imprisonment.
Nigeria's ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday nominated the man who will preside over the Senate in the run-up to the 2023 elections.
The American music industry's #GrammyAwards announced on Tuesday that they would be awarding a gramophone to the best African music performance at their next edition, a further sign of their quest for diversity and a consecration for the genre.
The head of the UN mission in Sudan, Volker Perthes, said on Tuesday that the violence in the vast Darfur region of western Sudan could constitute "crimes against humanity".
