President Felix Tshisekedi has finally named a prime minister for Democratic Republic of Congo, and it’s longtime politician Dr. Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba who gets the nod. The announcement of Ilukamba, most recently the head of the nation’s railway system, was made Monday in a television address. The new prime minister…
South African officials say that two dozen tourists who came under attack in Egypt on Sunday have returned home safely, while four citizens remained in Egypt. Three of them were wounded in the bus bombing near Cairo, while a fourth stayed behind to care for an injured family member. South…
Both sides in Libya’s battle over Tripoli are getting military equipment from foreign countries, with widely shared social media images raising new questions over violations of a 2011 United Nations ban on sending weapons and equipment to Libya. Forces aligned with Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) posted one set…
Exiled political leader Moïse Katumbi returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, arriving…
Nigeria will co-host a meeting in Geneva on snakebites later this week, as part of…
Nearly two dozen members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Burundi who were arrested by…
President Emmanuel Macron of France wasn’t the only head of state to appear at Viva…
The Time Magazine portrait of Swedish climate champion Greta Thunberg got lots of attention on…
Nearly USD$62 million for women in business is headed to the African continent, after the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) announced on Monday its funding allocation for the African Development Bank and its own women-focused programs. The funding through AfDB’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) will be…
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) in Sudan said Sunday that it will not break up the main sit-in protests at military headquarters in Khartoum, but it will enforce order in other parts of the city. The announcement via the state’s Sudan News Agency was meant to counter rumors that defense…
The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated in the streets on Sunday after pulling in 57.5 percent of the support in last week’s legislative election, down from previous years but still enough to protect the ANC’s long-standing majority. President Cyril Ramaphosa led the celebrations outside ANC headquarters in Johannesburg, promising that…
Two members of the European Union’s election observation mission in Malawi became crime victims early Sunday after a robbery where the team was staying. The EU observers, in Malawi ahead of the country’s May 21 presidential election, said the incident happened overnight in Chikwawa, about 50 kilometers southwest of Blantyre….