African News

Buildings shook across the province of Gauteng, where Johannesburg, the country’s largest city and…

Senegalese leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko has been sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for “corrupting youth”. The court acquitted Sonko, a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, of rape…

One of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives, Fulgence Kayishema, has been arrested in South Africa after being on the run for 22…

A temporary ceasefire in Sudan has been agreed as fighting between two warring factions entered its sixth week, BBC reports. Previous truce attempts between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid…

The death toll in a probe into a Kenyan cult suspected of urging followers to starve themselves to death rose to 226 on Wednesday after 15 more bodies were found, the authorities said. Investigators are poring over…

Ghana utility regulator on Wednesday said the average end-user tariff for electricity had been increased by 18.36 per cent for the second quarter of 2023. According to the regulator, Ghana had previously added almost…

Shaden Gardoon, one of the Sudan’s most prominent singers has been killed in the ongoing war in the Sudanese city of Omdurman. Mrs Gardood, 37, who was caught in the crossfire, died a day after the warring two rival forces…

The death toll from a in Kenya’s Shakahola forest has risen to 201. Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, the cult leader and founder of the Good News International Church, has been accused of ordering his followers to starve to…

South Africa’s foreign ministry says Reuben Brigety, United States ambassador to the country, has apologised for his comments alleging a military alliance between Russia and the country. On , Brigerty said he was…

Sudan’s capital, Khartoum was hit with more loud explosions on Wednesday, as fighting between warring generals escalated despite truce talks in Saudi Arabia. Two huge explosions were heard across greater Khartoum…

One of Kenya’s highest profile pastors was released on bail Thursday after appearing in court in connection with the horrific discovery last month of dozens of bodies in mass graves. Ezekiel Odero, a wealthy televangelist…

A ceasefire in Sudan that came into force on Thursday has already been broken, with airstrikes and heavy shelling reported near the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum in the morning, according to Al-Jazeera.…

At least 109 people have died in flooding in northern and western Rwanda, the state-run Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) said Wednesday, quoting figures from local authorities. “The rain that fell last night caused…

African immigrants in the UK are the worst hit by the persistent rising cost of living crisis in the country, a new report has found. The report released on Wednesday by , an African communications services…

Liberia President George Weah has sacked the country’s telecommunications minister, Cooper Kruah. The sacking comes a few days after Kruah attended an opposition rally. Kruah reportedly attended a rally…

The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was…

A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply…

A South African government official has said Russian President Vladimir Putin will be arrested if he attends the upcoming BRICS summit slated for August 2023. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is under pressure…

As the Janjaweed militia – a conglomeration of Arab-speaking pastoralists and camel traders recruited to fight recalcitrant African Muslims in Darfur protesting marginalisation because the Sudanese army was busy with the…

The ousted former Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, is currently being held in a military hospital under police custody in Khartoum, the Sudan capital, the country’s army revealed on Wednesday. Reuters…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the governing African National Congress (ANC) party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal…

The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said that Sudan's warring generals agreed to a three-day ceasefire starting…

The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest near the coast. A major search is…

South Africa has joined the other countries in evacuating dozens of its diplomats and other citizens trapped in conflict-hit Sudan, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday. This was disclosed by South Africa’s foreign ministry…