In a press conference held in Kinshasa, representatives from various civil society organizations and presidential candidates are urging the annulment of the December 20, 2023 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mino Bopomi, coordinator of the Filimbi citizens' movement, read out a joint statement declaring, "The December 20, ...

 The Israel-Hamas war saw regional tensions spike on Tuesday, with explosions reported off the coasts of Egypt and Yemen, deadly US strikes in Iraq and strikes from Lebanon. Hamas launched an unprecedented attack against Israel from Gaza on October 7, killing about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Isr...

 Flooding triggered by heavy rains in central Congo killed at least 22 people, including 10 from the same family, a local official said Tuesday. The hours-long rainfall in the district of Kananga in Kasai Central province destroyed many houses and structures, the province's governor, John Kabeya, said as rescue efforts intensified in search of...

 Ghana's Afua Asantewaa Aduonum is on a journey to break a world record for the longest individual singing marathon. In her attempt to break the Guinness world record by Sunil Waghmare, an Indian who sang for 105 hours in March 2012, Afua has been singing Ghanaian songs back-to-back at the Akwaaba village. Afua's journey which commenced at mid...

 With just a few weeks to go before the start of the AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire (January 13-February 11), Cameroon coach Rigobert Song faces a crucial mission: to win the continental title and secure a contract extension. However, the challenges are not confined to the pitch, with political pressures, criticism of his team management and relations...

 Bad weather on Sunday left four people dead and around twenty missing in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when a building was swept away by a swollen river, the authorities said on Monday. The accident occurred in a rural mining area in the Mwenga territory. In heavy rain, local residents, small-scale miners, shopk...

 Six people have died and 10 people are missing following floods that swept through Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal on Christmas Eve. KZN department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs said search and rescue teams who worked on Christmas day to find those missing, will resume on Tuesday, "For the moment, we have six confirmed deaths a...

 Dozens of Palestinians have been killed since Sunday in massive Israeli strikes in Gaza, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on Monday, promising an intensified offensive against Hamas in this devastated and besieged territory. The conflict also continues to fuel the risk of a regional conflagration: Iran, an ally of Leban...

 At least 160 people were killed in attacks by armed groups between Saturday evening and Monday in several villages in Plateau State, central Nigeria, local authorities announced on Monday. "The hostilities that broke out on Saturday were continuing on Monday morning," Monday Kassah, the chairman of the Bokkos government council, a constituenc...

 Morocco announced on Monday that almost a million disadvantaged families would receive direct monthly assistance for the first time as of Thursday, a system unheard of in the kingdom for many years. In all, nearly a million families are expected to benefit. These targeted family allowances are part of a vast social reform initiated by King Mo...

 In their quest for a 6th AFCON 2023 title, Cameroon, with Rigobert Song as coach and Samuel Eto'o at the helm of FECAFOOT, are dreaming of triumphing on the roof of Africa. Sport News Africa gives you its predictions for the Indomitable Lions' future triumph in Côte d'Ivoire on the evening of February 11, 2024. Because Song will apply the the...

 Dressed all in white, a man pretends to aim a slingshot towards another who, running away, tries to dodge the imaginary rock flung towards him. "Hassituha" (You Felt It), a mostly silent play from eastern Libya, symbolises both the country's divisions between west and east, and the rebirth of Libya's National Theatre Festival, which staged a ...

 The Senegalese navy has seized 690 kg of cocaine being transported to Europe in an ultra-fast go-fast boat and arrested the five Spaniards on board, the army announced in a statement received by AFP on Sunday. The deep-sea patrol boat intercepted the boat on Friday 220 km off the coast of Senegal. The patrol boat had to use verbal warnings an...

 Butter and milk shortages. Political party boycotts. Ongoing prosecutions of the president's critics. This is the environment in which Tunisians will head to the polls on Sunday for the country's first local elections since President Kais Saied wrote a new constitution that voters approved last year. Voting will determine the composition of a...

 Chad's new constitution was approved by 86 percent of voters in a referendum held a week ago, the African country's electoral commission said Sunday, but opposition leaders challenged the figures. The country's military rulers have promoted the new constitution as a key step in the path back to civilian rule, but it had been denounced by oppo...

 More than 10,000 demonstrators marched in Rabat on Sunday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, denouncing a "war of extermination" and the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel. Called by a motley crew of supporters of the Palestinian cause, including left-wing groups and militants from the Islamist Justice and C...

 In its report on the distribution of funds allocated to its various member associations through the Forward program, FIFA announces that it has reinvested $2.8 billion in the development of world soccer. This represents a seven-fold increase compared to six years ago. 1,600 projects, almost a third of which concern soccer infrastructure, 208 ...

 The festive spirit is overshadowed by rising prices, economic reforms, and the increasing struggle of millions in the country. In Lagos, a crowd gathers in the scorching sun at the Assumption Church, waiting for the distribution of food items just days before Christmas. The items, including rice, dried beans, tomato paste, and cooking oil, ac...

 Exiled Senegalese opposition figure Karim Wade, an ex-minister and the son of former head of state Abdoulaye Wade, Saturday said he had filed papers to contest presidential elections in February. Wade's Democratic Party had designated him as its candidate but doubts had remained due to his sentencing to a jail term for corruption in 2015, thr...

 Initial results from a presidential poll in DR Congo began to trickle in on Friday after shambolic elections spread over several days which the authorities deemed successful. For the first time, Congolese abroad were able to vote in five test countries (Belgium, Canada, France, South Africa and the United States). The number of registered vot...