South Africa and the other members of the G20 Environment Ministers issued a final communiqué following their meeting in Italy, but they’ve failed to come to terms on a global coal phaseout. The meeting, which in some respects signals what to expect ahead of the COP26 climate meeting in Scotland…
Health officials say a slight overall dip in COVID cases on the African continent is welcome, but it doesn’t reflect the reality in many nations that are seeing a surge. New case numbers were down by 1.8 percent during the week ending July 18, according to numbers cited Friday by…
Morocco, Egypt and Rwanda are just three of the nations where governments and their leaders are named in an ongoing investigation into the use of Pegasus spyware supplied by Israeli tech company NSO Group. The Pegasus Project, coordinated by the Paris-based NGO Forbidden Stories, looks at how the technology is…
On July 1st, Togo began systematically enforcing a comprehensive fiscal marking system which will allow…
Officials in Mali say an attempted attack on interim leader Assimi Goïta on Tuesday was unsuccessful,…
Four members of South Africa’s Olympic sports teams in Tokyo have tested positive for the…
On the eve of the second Libyan peace conference, which took place in Berlin on…
Back in March, a 22-year-old rapper named Sohail Al Sagheer left Algeria for Spain aboard…
As Ethiopians continued to wait for official results in Monday’s elections, the African Union election observer mission issued a preliminary report concluding that despite some flaws, the voting process was orderly and peaceful. “There was nothing, in the Mission’s estimation, that distracted from the credible conduct of the elections,” said…
South Africa will lead the way in the effort to begin manufacturing COVID vaccines on the African continent, beginning with an mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub supported by the World Health Organization. WHO said it will work with its COVAX partners, a South African consortium of biotech firms, a network…
A Swiss court handed down a landmark conviction on Friday in the case of Alieu Kosiah, a former head of a Liberian militia accused of war crimes during the first Liberian war in the 1990s. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court in the city of Bellinzona found Kosiah guilty of 21…
The Eritrean government has filed another complaint against the United Nations Security Council and UN heads of humanitarian agencies over the situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The latest letter from the Eritrean mission and U.N. Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam expressed frustration that representatives for the Horn of Africa nation…