African News

Southern Africa’s desert nation of Namibia swears in its first woman president Friday after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power.…

Ghana President, John Mahama’s verified X account was recently hacked for 48 hours, during which cybercriminals promoted a fraudulent cryptocurrency project called Solanafrica. According to his spokesperson,…

In a prestigious ceremony at the State House in Nairobi, President William Ruto of Kenya conferred the country’s highest national award, the Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart (CGH), upon Akinwumi…

Libya’s education minister has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison because of a textbook shortage dating back to 2021, the attorney general’s office announced on Sunday. The Tripoli court of…

The Government of Rwanda has announced that it has severed diplomatic ties with Belgium. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announced this on Monday. It has also ordered all…

Former Guinean President Alpha Conde, who was overthrown in a 2021 coup, said Saturday that the ruling junta was trying to “subjugate” the opposition after the military suspended his party. The military…

The United States’ decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable”, the office of the president said Saturday, urging…

Benin President Patrice Talon on Friday said he would not stand for an unconstitutional third term in office but would be watching the choice of his successor closely. The former businessman has been in charge of the…

A United Nations judge has been found guilty of turning a young woman into her slave in the United Kingdom. 49-year-old Lydia Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, was convicted of conspiring to facilitate…

Lagos state has cemented its position as one of Africa’s economic powerhouses, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reaching an impressive $259 billion based on purchasing power parity (PPP). This milestone…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked tiny Lesotho as a country “nobody has ever heard of” as he defended his sweeping cuts in aid. Trump highlighted the landlocked African constitutional monarchy during…

Rwanda has billed the United Kingdom £50 million for its cancelled deportation scheme, escalating a diplomatic row between the two countries. This is despite the UK government’s announcement days after the…

Hoërskool Waterkloof in Pretoria achieved the highest number of distinctions of all government schools in South Africa and outperformed…

An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to Nigeria and other countries in West Africa, consequently driving a major public health crisis in the…

France has handed over its only military base in Ivory Coast to local authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at the site. According to AFP, the French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to…

The gutting of US foreign aid has left Ghana facing a $156 million funding shortfall, with the health care and agriculture sectors bracing for shortages of drugs and fertiliser. A funding freeze ordered by President…

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he would step down after his second term, dismissing the rumours about a tenure extension. Asked to speak on calls for his tenure extension to 2030, Mr Mnangagwa…

Muhsin Hendricks, popularly recognised as the world’s first openly gay imam, has been shot and killed in South Africa. The 57-year-old cleric, who led a mosque in Cape Town known as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ and…

Djibouti’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union…

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed non-White South…

A deluge of more than 20,000 queries crashed the email server of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the United States after President Donald Trump said he would prioritise white South Africans in a refugee…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a South African Marxist–Leninist and pan-Africanist political party, has fiercely rejected comments made by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who called for the party’s…

Groups representing some of South Africa's white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and…

A suspected jihadist attack on a convoy escorted by Malian soldiers and Russia’s Wagner mercenaries has killed 32 people in northern Mali, officials said on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday between the northern…