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[Daba Finance] Nigerian stocks ended the week to October 2 lower as investors reduced positions after gains in recent weeks. The NGX All-Share Index…
[Daba Finance] The BRVM added Loterie Nationale du Bénin, ONATEL Burkina Faso, Vivo Energy Côte d'Ivoire and Solibra Côte d'Ivoire to its BRVM 30…
[Daba Finance] The BRVM ended the week to October 2 higher, recovering part of the previous week's losses as gains in Bridge Bank Group…
East Africa is heading into a food crisis that will not resolve in one season.
Kenya cannot afford to condone laxity in matters of security at MISC and other venues.
Defending champs Kenya Police Bullets maintain unbeaten start to new season.
[RFI] Ethiopian federal forces have regained control of the Tigray rebels' regional capital, local sources said on Sunday, while Ethiopia's regional rivals gathered in…
[Africa CDC] Kinshasa -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) welcomes and supports the position of the Government of the…
[UN News] The package originated in Entebbe, Uganda, bound for Cairo, containing 10 kilograms of thumb-sized pieces that could have been either bone or…
[RFI] Tigray rebels are abandoning their regional capital in northern Ethiopia, local residents said on Saturday, as pro-government forces advanced on the city. The…
[African Arguments] Somaliland's president spent two weeks in Washington this month offering almost everything he has. Access to the port at Berbera. Access to…
[Dabanga] El Obeid -- A drone strike on a shelter for internally displaced people in El Obeid, North Kordofan, late on Thursday reportedly killed…
[Premium Times] The selected manufacturers are from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Uganda, Ukraine and Vietnam.
[Premium Times] Mr Shettima the economic difficulties facing Nigerians and said the government is working on measures to reduce the impact of the hardship.
[WFP] Khartoum -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemns an aerial attack that hit two contracted trucks carrying WFP food commodities…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reclaims Tigray’s regional capital without a fight, but an Alamein summit of uneasy neighbours threatens to escalate a domestic war…
The incident sparked outrage among Kenyans amid claims one of the assailants was a regular at...
Two residents in Mekelle tell the BBC pro-government forces have taken control of the city.
Latest Politrack Africa survey puts the President at 45.1 percent, his highest recorded figure...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye presented the latest on West African integration at the African Union’s eighth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting in El-Alamein, Egypt, highlighting plans for…
With UEFA and several major European federations withdrawing their support after his failed plan to commercialise the World Cup, Gianni Infantino is counting on…
David Kimotho and John Muchina, rushed to the aid of the wounded pilot.
Kariobangi Sharks' 10-year stay in the top flight in danger of ending as they face Mombasa United.
Tanzania has cancelled its planned international friendly against Morocco after five Taifa Stars players suffered injuries while the team was in camp in Tangier.…
Ghana is a predominantly Christian country where preaching on public transport is widespread.
The United States has called on Rwanda to fulfil its commitments under the Washington Accords by ending all support to the M23 armed group…
Chinese firms are involved in more than half of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s critical mining projects, up from fewer than a third in…
The discovery of 12 women's bodies near Johannesburg has again highlighted South Africa's problem with violence against women.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius breaks Chris Gayle's record for the highest score in a men's T20 match with an unbeaten 188 in a domestic fixture in…
The Rwanda National Police has announced a new recruitment and training opportunity targeting young Rwandans, with particular emphasis on graduates in science-related fields and…
[Daily Trust] Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have ambushed and killed 15 farmers, while abducting three others in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
[Daily Trust] Former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, says the Tinubu administration has failed one of…
[Horn Diplomat] Hargeisa -- Somaliland police and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change have detained an Austrian national in the port city of…
[Horn Diplomat] Addis Ababa -- The African Union Commission has urged Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to exercise maximum restraint amid heightened tensions between the…
[Premium Times] The World Health Organisation (WHO) says drug-resistant bacterial infections kill about one million people globally every year, calling for coordinated action across…
[Nile Post] The population of mountain gorillas in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 1,063, up from about 300…
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Europe Peace Foundation and three US lawmakers have separately called for an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia,…
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- More than 50 civilians have reportedly been killed in and around Alamata, southern Tigray, during several days of intense…
The Parliament of Uganda has opened applications for media accreditation for journalists who will cover parliamentary proceedings and activities during the 2027 calendar year.…
Kenya’s Ministry of Health has clarified the ongoing transition from the Social Health Authority (SHA) Provider Portal to hospital-based Health Management Information Systems (HMIS),…
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has met Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Secretary-General Anda Cristina Filip in Dodoma ahead of the 153rd IPU Assembly, which Tanzania…
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) collected Sh10.65 trillion in domestic revenue during the first three months of the 2026/27 financial year, exceeding its target…
[UN News] A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why…
[Nile Post] Passenger rail service between Kampala and Jinja is set to return before the end of 2026, with the Uganda Railways Corporation (URC)…
[Daily Trust] Public sector unions, under the aegis of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), have directed all federal, state and local…
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Lecturers and other staff in public universities have begun a nationwide strike after their unions rejected a counter-offer by the…
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi City County has entered the second day of Operation Okoa Maisha, a multi-agency emergency simulation exercise designed to test…
[GroundUp] Students continued to protest despite a high court interdict
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A familiar explanation of Ethiopia's recurring crises starts with identity: politics organized around nationality can harden boundaries, reward exclusionary…
[Premium Times] Governor Biodun Oyebanji says the deployment of the buses, which coincided with the nation's Independence Day and the 30th anniversary of the…
Kenyan runner Naomi Korir was born with fistula, a condition which can cause the uncontrolled leakage of urine or faeces.
Gen Z and hyperlocalisation, or granularity, will be the two forces to watch from African shoppers in 2027.
As militarised commercial drones hit the capital, expelled ambassadors and Red Sea posturing threaten to drag East Africa into a wider war.
Ethiopia has ordered the closure of its embassy in Eritrea and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats in Addis Ababa persona non grata, giving them 48…
[New Times] Victoire Ingabire has denied allegations that she formed or was part of a criminal group operating under the P5, a militia coalition…
[Agenzia Fides] Lusaka -- "On behalf of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), we wish to express our fraternal solidarity…
Nigeria's Taiwo Awoniyi explains why he values education so highly, having completed a course which could see him become one of football's future leaders.
Congress on 30 September cleared seven more ambassadors to Africa, slowly restaffing a decimated US diplomatic corps on the continent – with 41 out…
Kang Soon Gi, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Northern Asia-Pacific Division, has tendered his resignation amid financial losses linked to investments made by…
Exploring the issues behind the escalation of tensions between the TPLF and the national army.
With Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania behind schedule, African football’s governing body is lining up a plan B it publicly denies exists.
West Africa’s refinery boom is long on ambition and short on supply. London’s Good Delivery rules keep industrial miners loyal to Swiss refiners.
Eye-watering profit margins in Australia are driving Sinaloa syndicate chemists into the African bush, where they exploit isolated terrain, Asian chemical imports and local…
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Ten Boeing freighters position the continent’s leading carrier as Africa’s air cargo gateway, with next-generation Boeing 777-8 Freighters arriving after the eagerly anticipated Bishoftu…
A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.
It is estimated more than 200 people have died in blazes in the north-east of the country over the summer.
Chivayo was known for his lavish lifestyle, close ties to African presidents and lucrative government contracts.
Africa's richest man says Africans should take the fate of their continent in their own hands, rather than relying on foreigners.
A game of rock, paper, scissors is used to determine when the elite female and male races will take place at next year's two-day…
Kijanangoma has been crowned amid a dispute over a young heir whom the royal clan does not recognise.
Edward Rukidi Nyabongo I has been crowned king of Tooro in a ceremony attended by Uganda's President Museveni.
Trevor Mwamba was detained last month with other opposition figures and charged with treason, his son says.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the murders are a "stain on our national conscience".
Seven rebel groups from across Ethiopia have announced a new alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
Cape Verde's World Cup hero Vozinha says he craves the "peace and tranquillity" of the life he led before he shot to fame.
Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa wins the Berlin Marathon but narrowly misses out on breaking the women's world record because of injury.
Egypt forward Mohamed Salah is left out of his nation's forthcoming match against South Sudan because it will be played on artificial turf.