President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned to Zimbabwe to deal with the nation’s protests and political crisis, skipping a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that followed his official visits to Russia and Eastern Europe. The president defended his decision to raise fuel prices – the proximal cause of…
The Constitutional Court in Democratic Republic of Congo has dismissed an appeal filed by losing presidential candidate Martin Fayulu, in a ruling late Saturday that paves the way for final confirmation of a victory for Felix Tshisekedi of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). The court’s decision was…
The United States says 52 al-Shabaab militants were killed in an airstrike on Saturday that targeted them near the town of Jilib in Somalia’s Middle Juba region. The airstrike came in response to an al-Shabaab attack against Somali National Army Forces, according to the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The AFP…
The London Stock Exchange has named 360 companies from 32 African nations in its new…
The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed 410 lives, with the…
The nation of Burundi hasn’t commanded much international attention since May, when President Pierre Nkurunziza…
This isn’t the first time that Zimbabwe’s Pastor Evan Mawarire has been arrested. It’s not…
A Canadian man abducted in Burkina Faso earlier this week and later found dead has…
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo targeted Iran in a speech delivered Thursday at the American University in Cairo, but he was equally forceful in describing the U.S. role and the failings of former U.S. President Barack Obama to confront the threats in the Middle East and North Africa….
From flooding to drought, countries across the African continent experience climate change in environmentally and economically diverse settings – but what do its citizens really think about it? The Ghana-based Afrobarometer research organization checked in with five different countries for their 2018 reports, from West Africa to the south, and…
Lambert Mende, the information minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo, was quick to condemn France for a “colonialist attitude” after its foreign minister questioned results of the December 30 presidential election that give opposition politician Felix Tshisekedi the win. Mende, a ruling party loyalist and ally of outgoing President…
The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed 385 lives, with the number of cases reported Thursday by the country’s Ministry of Health rising to 630. The new total in what is now the second-largest Ebola outbreak in global history, after the 2014 West African outbreak, includes 582 confirmed…