South Africa counts votes in pivotal election/in /by
Counting commenced after South Africans participated in what's deemed their most crucial election since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
Pics of the day: May 30, 2024/in /by
Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day's news.
Tate Britain: Alvaro Barrington’s “Grace” explores Carribean culture/in /by
A new exhibition at London's Tate Britain celebrates the work of Alvaro Barrington. The "Grace" installation has been heavily influenced the artist's early childhood in the Caribbean and carnival culture.
Kenyan climber Kirui Cheruiyot’s body to be left on Mt. Everest, family says/in /by
He fell into a crevasse 48 meters below the 8,849-meter peak with his Nepali guide, Nawang Sherpa, who is still missing.
SA Elections: voters express mixed reactions to early counts/in /by
South Africans in Cape Town gave mixed reactions on Thursday to early election results which show the long-ruling African National Congress below 50% in the vote.
Kenya: “Some friends” helped pay for private jet for US trip – William Ruto replies critics/in /by
Ruto rejected claims that the trip cost $1.5 million, calling them exaggerated.
Irish festival explores Nigeria’s thriving writing industry/in /by
Nigerian-German writer Olumide Popoola and literary agent Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press discussed the past, present and future of Nigerian and African writing.
Nigeria: Indonesia Wants Revival of Suspended Oil, Gas MOU With Nigeria/in /by
[This Day] The Republic of Indonesia has expressed its desire to foster the existing collaboration with Nigeria on the development of the nation's oil and gas sector, urging the country to revive a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria which was suspended in 2017.
Early results in South Africa’s election put ruling ANC below 50% and short of a majority/in /by
Very early counts in South Africa's national election put the long-ruling African National Congress at just over 42% of the vote, raising the possibility that it might lose its majority for the first time since it swept to power under Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid in 1994.
Gaza: Israel controls Philadelphia corridor to Egypt/in /by
The Israeli military said Wednesday it had taken control of a strategic corridor along Gaza's border with Egypt to cut off smuggling tunnels, as it attempts to destroy the Hamas militant group in a war which is in its eighth month.