Africa News

War set to expand in Ethiopia as Amhara regional president calls on all people of age who are armed to mobilise.

The Somali women’s football team fights cultural barriers and funding problems in a bid to represent the country.

The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State on July 5, abducting 121 students from their dorms.

Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.

Main opposition leader and Chadema party members arrested and accused of ‘terrorism’.

Each of the 529 lawmakers received $56,500 to get new vehicles, sparking outrage in the poor country.

Lawmakers vote to repeal the death penalty more than 20 years after the country’s last execution.

One child among those killed as they were returning from a weekly market in North Kivu province.

Israeli ambassador presents credentials to African Union Commission chairman at bloc’s headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Public security minister says those arrested also included two Malagasy and two Malagasy and French bi-nationals.

More than one million people need emergency food and nutrition aid, with 14,000 already in ‘catastrophic conditions’.

Despite rates of vaccination picking up, the Delta variant is driving new waves of COVID infections.

South Africa is still trying to come to terms with days of looting and violence that left death and destruction.

Government says deaths from days of violence revised up to 79 in Gauteng province and 258 in KwaZulu-Natal.