Donald Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 […]

Story updated:The African National Congress appeared on course to lose the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years, partial results from South Africa’s national election showed, in what would be the most dramatic political shift since the end of […]

South Africa is deploying more than 2,800 troops to violence-prone areas of the country as authorities try to deal with incidents of insecurity on voting day (today and beyond. President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday authorised the deployment of 2,828 members […]

South Africans went to the country’s seventh democratic general elections since apartheid ended in 1994. The elections include a vote for members of the National Assembly and state legislatures. President The National Assembly will then choose the President for the […]

China’s flagship economic cooperation programme is bouncing back after a lull during the global pandemic, with Africa a primary focus, according to a Reuters analysis of lending, investment and trade data. Chinese leaders have been citing the billions of dollars […]

With unemployment, power outages, and crime spiralling out of control, South Africa, one of Africa’s most affluent and influential nations, faces a pivotal election on May 29. An estimated 28 million registered voters in South Africa are set to participate in the country’s seventh democratic […]

Sudan’s 13-month war is generating the highest amount of displaced people and hurtling towards genocide, a special envoy told the United Nations Security Council this week.  The horrifying details emerged even as Nairobi pushed backchannels for a new track seeking to coalesce […]

Kenya’s President William Ruto on Monday landed in the US in his first-ever State visit to Washington and used this opportunity to deliver a regional message for a bilateral trip. In his first engagement since landing, President Ruto spoke about climate change, financial restructuring […]

South Africans will vote in a national election on May 29 with an unprecedented sense of uncertainty about the outcome, aspollssuggest the African National Congress (ANC will lose its majority after 30 years in power. With coalition government looking like […]

A man was rescued from the rubble five days after a deadly building collapse in South Africa in what Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said was “nothing short of a miracle”. Officials said in a statement that of 81 people […]

TheSudanese army on Monday rejected an accusation by the United Arab Emirates that its forces had bombed the residence of the UAE ambassador in Khartoum, blaming instead the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF. The UAEearlieron Mondaysaid theresidence of its ambassador […]

At least six people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and a town in the country’s Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who had carried out […]

Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America may be on different continents, but the war in Khartoum has brought them closer together. This week, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan made his first-ever visit […]

More than half the people in this nation of 50 million are suffering from severe hunger. Hundreds are estimated to be dying from starvation and hunger-related disease each day. But life-saving international aid – cooking oil, salt, grain, lentils and […]

Ugandan opposition leader and National Unity Platform (NUP) president, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, is recovering at the St Francis Nsambya Hospital following a violent altercation with security officers on Tuesday in Wakiso District, a party lawyer said early Wednesday. […]

South Sudanese and Kenyan civil society groupswant Juba’s planned December 2024 elections delayed until all measures are in place to allow credible polling. Representatives of 22 organisations met in Nairobi on September 2 to discuss the South Sudan situation and […]

Democratic Republic of Congo expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccine doses on Thursday and a second delivery on Saturday, the head of the country’s mpox outbreak response said on Wednesday. Congo is the epicentre of anmpox outbreakthat […]

China-Africa relationshave deepenedover the past two decades, characterised by increased economic cooperation, investment and infrastructure development. China is now Africa’slargest trading partner, with partnerships focused on building roads, railways and energy projects. As the ninthForum on China–Africa Cooperation(Focac kicks off […]

Africa’s enduring conflicts like that of Sudan are helping disappear more people than before, sending unending trauma to families left behind. New data shows more than 71,000 people, 25,000 children among them, have been reported missing on the African continent […]

The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump inUganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors. After torrential rain in recent weeks, a huge mound of […]

Democratic presidential candidateKamalaHarrisselected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America’s heartland to help win over rural, white voters, said people familiar with the matter. Walz, […]

Newly manufactured weapons are fuelling the war in Sudan, a new report by Amnesty International claims. In a report, New Weapons Fuelling the Sudan Conflict, released on July 24, Amnesty details how foreign weapons are being transferred into and around […]

A Ugandan magistrate’s court has charged at least 42 youths for offences allegedly committed during a banned anti-corruption protest on Tuesday and remanded them in custody. Protestersmarchedon different streets in the capital Kampala on Tuesday shouting slogans and holding placards […]

Kenya’s anti-government protesters on Tuesday defied President William Ruto’s warning of dire consequences and staged street demos in various parts of the country to demand his resignation. By noon, protests had been recorded in various parts of Mombasa, Kisumu, Nairobi […]