South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with senior officials of the African National Congress on Thursday to decide how to go about forming a government after the party lost its 30-year grip on power and left a post-election deadlock. The party's National Executive Committee was meeting in Johannesburg to work through a split within the ...

 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Burkina Faso late on Tuesday (Jun. 4) as he continued his latest tour of Africa. It is his first visit to the west African nation. Burkina Faso's foreign minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore hosted his Russian counterpart. In his opening remarks at talks with minister Traoré, Lavrov hailed rap...

Garry Conille was officially sworn in Monday (Jun. 3) as Haiti's new Prime minister. A short ceremony was held at the Prime Minister's office in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Conille took over from interim PM Patrick Boisvert. The 58-year-old who shares executive power with the Presidential Council, has called political factions to set aside their d...

 Official results confirmed Sunday (Jun. 2) that no party won a majority in South Africa's election as unprecedented coalition talks begin. 58.6% of voters cast a ballot in the parliamentary poll which saw the ANC win a little over 40%. According to Professor Patrick Bond, a political analyst from the University of Johannesburg, that leaves th...

 Dozens of women bring their empty jerry cans to the public fountain in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, to fetch drinking water for their families. But the wait at the fountain can last several hours. The city has been hit by a water shortage due to its adduction system reaching its limits as the city is growin...

Cairo's drum festival opened this week, bringing together around 40 folkloric troupes from around the world. The 11th International Festival for Drums and Traditional Arts kicked off in historic Cairo and will run until the end of the week. The event featured a Palestinian troupe as well as groups from various countries including Japan, China and I...

"Looking at you makes me happy, you really are a tonic for the spirit. Your individual style of dancing is so unique and beautiful, your musicality is out of this world and your personality really shines through. Love you, love you," Britain's Got Talent judge Bruno Tonioli told Ghanaian dancers Abigail and Afronita after their semi-final performan...

 Counting began after South Africans voted Wednesday in an election seen as their country's most important since apartheid ended 30 years ago. The election was held on one day and polls closed after 14 hours of voting at more than 23,000 stations across South Africa's nine provinces. Officials were gearing up for counting but the final results...

 South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country's most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory. At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid's brutal white minority rule in 1994. It is now the t...

Tens of thousands of students in Somalia's central Hiran region have been forced to stay out of schools after heavy rains flooded the institutions. According to Somali education officials, more than 37,000 students in this region in central Somalia are no longer in school due to the impact of recent flooding. The area has been battered by heavy rai...

 Uganda launched a mass vaccination campaign in April against the mosquito-borne disease, yellow fever. They hoped to reach millions of people but vaccine hesitancy has left hundreds of unused doses in hospitals across the country. There is no specific treatment for the potentially deadly yellow fever virus. There is, however, a vaccine which ...

 Burkina Faso's military leader will stay in power for five more years after a new charter was signed following national consultations on Saturday, May 25. The talks in the capital, Ouagadougou, included civil society, security forces, and transitional lawmakers, but most political parties did not participate. "The duration of the transition i...

 U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the Pentagon for bilateral talks ahead of expected travel to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a medical procedure Friday. Austin continues to deal with bladder issues that arose following his treatment for prostate cancer late last year. The Pentagon...

The daily struggle starts early in Hammanskraal. By 8.30 a.m. there's a queue of South Africans waiting to fill buckets with drinking water from a tank provided by an aid agency. This is not a distant, rural community, but a settlement on the edge of the capital city of Africa's most advanced economy. It's barely 30 miles from the government buildi...

Chad's prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra has resigned following the confirmation of interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby as the winner of the May 6 presidential election. "In accordance with the constitution, I have today presented... my resignation and that of the transitional government, which has become irrelevant with the end o...

 Haiti's main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March. The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ease a critical shortage of medications and other basic...

In the coastal town of El Amra, Tunisia, migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are asking to be let go in order to reach Europe as tensions mount in the country over the government's handling of the migrant crisis. Far from the main roads, in local olive groves, migrant encampments stand as testament to the struggles faced by the many dreaming of a bett...

 Former South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday lamented the high levels of poverty amongst Black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle the scourge of crime as he launched his new political party's manifesto ahead of the country's much anticipated elections. He told thousands of supporters who gathered at Orlando Stadium...

 The anticipatory actions put in place over the last two years by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to mitigate the extreme weather events caused by El Niño in 23 countries have protected the food security and livelihoods of over 1.6 million people. Declared in July 2023 and projected to last until mid-2024, the...

 On Thursday, May 16, the Constitutional Council of Chad confirmed Mahamat Idriss Déby as the country's president with 61% of the vote, far ahead of his rivals Succès Masra and Albert Pahimi Padacké. Mahamat Idriss Déby was declared the winner after the Council reviewed and reaffirmed vote counts, despite minor adjustments. Déby won with 61.03...