Tunisia is set to conduct a presidential election on October 6, as confirmed by President Kais Saied's office on Tuesday. It remains uncertain whether Saied will run for a new five-year term following his initial election in 2019. Saied, an expert in constitutional matters, assumed complete authority over the nation in 2021, governing through...

 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement in the continent's most industrialized country after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in a milestone election result in late May. Ramaphosa's announcement of the new Cabinet on Su...

 The Cairo meeting attended by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and EU commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen culminated in the signing of deals worth billions of dollars. The conference comes on the back of a $7.9 billion funding package agreed in March to support the north African country battle an economic crisis made worse by rising debt, in...

 Vote counting is progressing in Mauritania with partial results expected on Sunday (Jun. 30). Some 2 million Mauritanians were elegibile to cast a bllot in the presidential election held on Saturday (Jun. 29). The turnout was 40% and, according to observers, the vote unfolded peacefully. Incumbent President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, who is seek...

Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching. The idea is that radiation detectors already in place at national borders would detect the horns and help authorities arrest poachers and traffickers. The research, which has included the participation...

Nigeria is one of the world's top plastic polluters, generating over 2.5 million tons of plastic waste annually. The need for a more comprehensive waste collection system and limited recycling facilities means that over 70 per cent of it ends up in the sea or in landfills. Now, Nigeria has become the latest African country to join the fight against...

 The International Criminal Court has convicted an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali's Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was accused of playing a key role in a reign of terror unleashed by insurgents on the historic desert city in northern Mali in 2012. He was accu...

 Part of Kenya's parliament building was on fire Tuesday as thousands of protesters against a new finance bill entered and legislators fled, in the most direct assault on the government in decades. Journalists saw at least three bodies outside the complex where police had opened fire. The protesters had demanded that legislators vote against t...

President William Ruto has expressed his willingness to engage in dialogue with the youth protesting against the finance bill in Kenya. On Sunday, June 23, young activists aimed to prevent politicians who support the bill from speaking in churches, voicing their concerns to congregants in Nairobi. Youth protests against the public finance bill, whi...

 This is Ayetoro, where waves break over concrete bricks, wooden posts and ruined homes. The lives of its residents have been upturned repeatedly as the sea eats into their neighbourhood. Ayetoro, otherwise known as the Happy City, was founded in 1947 as a utopian Christian community. Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, a retired civil servant, has li...

 Amid soaring tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border, the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has warned that one false move could trigger a catastrophe for the whole region and beyond. "One rash move - one miscalculation - could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the border, and frankly, beyond imagination," he told ...

 World leaders, health groups, and pharmaceutical firms announced $1.2 billion in funding to produce vaccines in Africa, at the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation in Paris on Thursday. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed gaping global inequalities in access to vaccines, including in Africa which is facing numerous health crises. Spe...

 A bulk carrier sank days after an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are believed to have killed one mariner on board, authorities said early Wednesday. It was the second ship sunk in the rebels' campaign targeting Red Sea shipping. The sinking of the Tutor marks what appears to be a new escalation by the Iranian-backed Houthis in their cam...

 Four people were killed and 120 others injured in an earthquake in northeastern Iran on Tuesday, officials said. Iran's state TV reported the magnitude 5.0 quake jolted the town of Kashmar, some 800 km (500 miles) east of the capital Tehran. Rescue teams have been deployed to the region, and three temporary camps have been set up, according t...

A deadly nationwide political crackdown in the East African nation is now in the past. But the return to international favour, and benefits like development assistance that come with it, has been slow. As always, everyday citizens feel it most. According to United Nations figures, it's never been easy in landlocked Burundi, which at times has been ...

 The late Malawian Vice President will be buried on Monday in his home district of Ntcheu 180km south of Lilongwe. The 51-year-old Saulos Chilima and 8 other individuals including the ex-wife of the former Malawian President died when a twin-propeller aircraft went down in a hilly, forested area in bad weather. A state service was conducted on...

 The shores of Lake Victoria in Kisumu City bustle with fishermen selling their catch. There's been a surge of demand for one particular fish - Nile perch. These will fetch high prices at the market here. But it's not the flesh that buyers are after - it's their swim bladders, dubbed "mondo" or "maw". These vital organs, essential for buoyancy...

 South African lawmakers were beginning to be sworn in on Friday (Jun. 14) in Cape Town. The chief justice Raymond Zondo oversaw the first part of the parliamentary session, during which lawmakers took the oath of office. In the second part of the session, parliamentrians elect the president and vice president. Cyril Ramaphosa is seeking a sec...

 A boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a river near Congo's capital of Kinshasa, leaving more than 80 dead, President Félix Tshisekedi said Wednesday. It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country where overloading is often blamed, including in February when dozens lost their lives after an overloaded...

 The Malawi government said Wednesday that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he died in a plane crash along with eight other people. President Lazarus Chakwera had already announced 21 days of national mourning on Tuesday, when the wreckage of the small military plane carrying Chilima and a former first l...