Former Senegal minister charged over Covid fund fraud

Salimata Diop, who was the minister for women under ex-president Macky Sall, is one of five former ministers facing allegations of corruption.
20 May, 2025
At least 58 unidentified corpses found in Libyan hospital refrigerator

Libya’s interior ministry says the corpses were found in a morgue refrigerator in Abu Salim Accidents Hospital in Tripoli.
20 May, 2025
Unexploded shells cause anxiety among Sudan’s returnees

Unexploded shells are causing anxiety among Sudanese nationals who are returning home after fleeing conflict in mid-April 2023.
19 May, 2025
Crew killed in Egyptian military training jet crash

An Egyptian military training aircraft crashed during an air force exercise on Monday, killing its crew.
19 May, 2025

Gunmen kill 50 in three northern Nigeria states

‘I’m unmoved,’ Tanzania’s Suluhu says amid criticism over ‘opposition clampdown’

Somalia’s mass vaccination against polio, pneumonia targets 3 million children

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu defiant as he appears for treason trial

Sudan’s Burhan appoints country’s new prime minister
19 May, 2025
War doesn’t end when the guns go silent
War does not just break homes; it breaks minds and spirits. What we don’t realise is that if our mental health is unstable, our physical health suffers too.

19 May, 2025
France closes probe against widow of Rwanda’s ex-president over alleged role in genocide
France has closed an investigation against the widow of Rwanda’s former President Juvenal Habyarimana into claims she played a role in the country’s 1994 genocide.

19 May, 2025
ICJ sides with Equatorial Guinea in dispute with Gabon over oil-rich islands
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has sided with Equatorial Guinea in a decades-long dispute with Gabon over three tiny islands in potentially oil-rich waters.

19 May, 2025
Why Lumumba’s 1960 call to freedom was a speech like no other
Patrice Lumumba’s legacy of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s sovereignty is defined by his historic speech at the nation’s independence ceremony, one that shattered colonial illusions while igniting both hope and turmoil.

19 May, 2025
South Africa’s Ramaphosa aims to mend US ties with Musk deals
Presidents Ramaphosa and Trump are scheduled to meet on Wednesday as part of efforts to mend relations between the US and South Africa.

19 May, 2025
UN, Libya’s Presidential Council establish ‘truce committee’ after Tripoli clashes
Committee aims to secure fragile ceasefire and protect civilians after recent clashes in Libyan capital

19 May, 2025
UN’s court to rule on Gabon-Equatorial Guinea dispute over potentially oil-rich areas
The dispute dates all the way back to 1900, when then colonial powers France and Spain signed a treaty in Paris setting out the borders between the two countries.

18 May, 2025
Sudan army retakes strategic area in North Darfur from RSF
The Sudanese army has recaptured the strategically important Attrun area in North Darfur from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), local authorities have said.

18 May, 2025
Nigerian pastor acquitted of rape, Timothy Omotoso, leaves South Africa
Timothy Omotoso, a Nigerian televangelist acquitted of raping young women from his church, has left South Africa.

18 May, 2025
RSF shelling kills 14 people in Sudan displacement camp
Shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group (RSF) has killed at least 14 people in a famine-hit displacement camp.




