The Cameroonian government has described two political groups seeking to create opposition coalitions as illegal. A statement from the Territorial Administration Minister Paul Atanga Nji on Tuesday named "The Political Alliance for Change (APC) and the Alliance for Political Transition in Cameroon (ATP) and described them as no political part...

 Nouakchott finds itself in a state of agitation following the recent visit on February 8th by a European delegation led by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SANCHEZ and Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission. During the visit, Mauritania signed a partnership agreement with the EU to combat irregular migration, which includes th...

Four individuals lost their lives and three others sustained injuries from lightning strikes in the town of Mogincual, Nampula province in Mozambique. The nation braces for Storm Filipo, with the southern and central provinces on alert for severe thunderstorms. Filipo has made landfall and may intensify into a severe tropical storm before dissipati...

 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and first lady Auxillia have come under a slate of new US sanctions imposed that also targeted senior government officials accused of corruption and human rights abuses. The Mnangagwas were part of 11 people, including Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Defense Minister Oppah Muchinguri, senior securi...

 Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to fly his party's flag as presidential candidate in the 2025 elections. Katinan Kone, spokesperson of his party the African People's Party – Cote d'Ivoire (PPA-CI), which Gbagbo founded in 2021 gave the news after a meeting of the party's central committee on Saturday. Acquitted in 2019 ...

 Mauritania and the European Union signed a migration deal on Thursday as the country struggles to contain a surge in migrants embarking on the dangerous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain's Canary Islands. Speaking in the capital, Nouakchott, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson praised the deal which includes $230 mi...

 In a surprising turn of events, President Macky Sall of Senegal has officially announced March 24th as the date for the upcoming presidential election. This declaration has sparked reactions across the nation, evoking a mixture of relief and lingering uncertainty among Senegalese citizens. After weeks of deliberation and speculation, the deci...

 The foreign ministers of Russia and Nigeria held talks in Moscow on Wednesday where they discussed future relations between the two countries. Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told his Nigerian counterpart, Yusuf Tuggar, that Moscow sees Nigeria as a priority partner on the African continent.Tuggar echoed his sentiments."The relations...

 Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered the country's main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days. As of midday Wednesday, Henry remained in Puerto Rico, where he landed the day before after he was barred from landing in nei...

 Algeria has pledged that it will support Mozambique in its fight against terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique's news agency AIM reported Monday. Summarizing a four day working visit to Algeria, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi made the announcement on Sunday. He said that both delegations spoke of forms of equipping...

 Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti's main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country's two biggest prisons. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the ...

 Two years after she was brutally murdered, Zimbabwean opposition activist Moreblessing Ali was finally laid to rest in the town of Chitungwiza on the outskirts of Harare on Saturday. Ali, a member of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was abducted in 2022 outside a bar in Nyatsime, a neighbourhood of Chitungwiza. Her body, whi...

 Africa's magnificent birds of prey can be found soaring above the continent's varied habitats and terrains. From the large and majestic Martial Eagle, to the colorful Bateleur and the long-legged Secretarybird, scientists are raising the alarm, saying they're quickly disappearing from African skies. "Basically we are losing some of our most i...

 Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema declared the drought a national disaster and emergency on Thursday, saying it had devastated food production and power generation, as the country struggles to recover a recent cholera epidemic. Like some of its neighbors, this southern African country is suffering from severe drought due to the El Nino phe...

 A university student died and another got seriously hurt from stray bullets during a shooting incident in Johannesburg, South Africa. Police report that gunmen killed two men in a parked car on a busy street near the city center. The students were hit while their bus was passing by. No arrests have been made yet. Gun violence is sadly common ...

 The cabinet of Senegal has approved an amnesty law during its session on Wednesday evening. This decision follows the proposal made last Monday during the inauguration of a national dialogue spearheaded by President Macky Sall. The dialogue aimed to address the ongoing crisis in the country triggered by the postponement of the presidential el...

 An attack on the offices of Chad's internal security agency (ANSE) in the capital, N'Djamena, has killed several people. The attack is reported to have happened just hours after the announcement that the central African nation will hold a presidential election on May 6. The government on Wednesday accused "elements" of the opposition party So...

 The African nation of Congo became the latest exporter of liquefied natural gas on Tuesday by starting production of the first cargo, a year after Italian energy company ENI launched the Congo LNG project with local partners. The first cargo ship loaded with LNG will head to the Italian regasification plant in the Tuscan town of Piombino in t...

 The Nigerian army has strongly denied claims of a coup plot. The Defence Headquarters labelled the reports false and urged the public to disregard them. This comes after Sahara Reporters suggested that the Presidential Guard, tasked with the president's protection, was on alert due to coup suspicions. The report alleged that emergency meeting...

 The sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly is taking place in Nairobi. The main item on the agenda is how multilateralism can help solve climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, according to the UN's environment chief. "Irrespective of where we live, if you are polluted in Asia, then I'm polluted next door", Inger An...