African News

The death toll from a building collapse in South Africa climbed Friday to 12 with 40 people still unaccounted for, four days after the structure came crashing down. The tragedy struck Monday afternoon when an…

Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released on Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on power.…

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that abolishes presidential elections. The new constitution has been widely condemned by the opponents and civil societies saying it…

Rescuers raced against time to find more survivors amid the rubble of a deadly building collapse in South Africa on Wednesday, as search operations were about to enter their third day. Dozens of people are still…

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda took a bold swipe at world leaders during his speech at the World Bank’s International Development Association summit for African Heads of state, held in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. In…

The African Union on Tuesday said that a bid to defraud the pan-continental body of more than $6 million from accounts held at Ethiopia’s main bank had been foiled. It said an individual not employed by the AU had…

South Africa’s scandal-hit ex-president Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Zuma, the fourth president of democratic…

Kanja Sesay, Sierra Leone’s minister of energy, has resigned after weeks of electricity crisis in the West African nation. , in his resignation letter on Friday, Sesay said he took full responsibility for the crisis.…

A daughter of deposed Niger’s president Mohamed Bazoum on Friday accused his predecessor of being the “mastermind” behind the military coup that toppled her father nine months ago. Bazoum and his wife have been under…

Prime Minister of Tanzania, Kassim Majaliwa, has announced the shut down of five hydroelectric stations in the country, in order to reduce excess electricity in the national grid. According to Mr Majaliwa, the main plant,…

The South African police have arrested eight Nigerians for allegedly attacking officers during a drug raid. In a statement issued on Friday, the police said the suspects were arrested in the Northern Cape province. The…

Ghana’s newly acquired train from Poland was involved in a collision during a test run in the Eastern Region on Thursday. The train, the first of two Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) purchased from Poland, struck an abandoned…

A military helicopter in Kenya carrying high-ranking officials, including the defence chief, crashed on Thursday, resulting in fatalities, according to police reports. President William Ruto immediately called for an…

On Monday, The Ghanaian government said that it failed to strike a deal with two international bondholder groups in its bid to restructure $13 billion of international bonds and pull the west African country out of its…

South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has announced the recall of batches of Johnson & Johnson’s children’s cough syrup due to elevated levels of diethylene glycol, a toxic substance.   The affected…

South Africa’s electoral court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office in the country’s upcoming election. The judgment which was delivered on Tuesday overturns the decision made by South Africa’s…

Thousands of people turned out Saturday to see Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo announce his bid to return to office even though he is ineligible. Supporters came from all over the country to Agboville, 70…

South Africa has issued new visa regulations for skilled foreign remote workers, Business Live reports. The new remote work visas are applicable to foreigners…

Newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has announced Senegal's plans to conduct an audit of the oil, gas, and mining sectors. The audit is one of the first policy…

Uganda’s Constitutional Court Wednesday rejected a petition seeking to annul the nation’s stringent anti-LGBTQ legislation that led the World Bank to suspend funding. The judgment was delivered at a hearing on Wednesday in…

The newly elected president of Senegal,  Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has appointed popular opposition figure and political ally, Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister barely hours after being sworn in as president.  Sonko, 49,…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in Tuesday as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.…

Dozens of worshippers died after a bus headed to an Easter conference apparently “lost control” and “plunged” off a cliff in South Africa’s Limpopo province on Thursday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)…

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, congratulated Mr. Bassirou Faye on his election as the President of the Republic of Senegal. He also congratulated incumbent President, Macky Sall, for overseeing an election widely…