Africa
The Mpox outbreak continues to represent a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The WHO first declared the emergency in August, when an outbreak of a new form of mpox spread from the badly-hit Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries. The WHO had convened a meeting of its Emergency Committee and, agreeing ...
Polls opened in Senegal on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is set to determine if the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms. More than ...
Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party ...
The lawyer for a prominent Mozambique opposition figure has been shot dead in the capital, Maputo, along with an official from the same party. Elvino Dias was the ...
Monday, October 14, 2024, marked the 185th anniversary of a pivotal event in the history of North Africa, which is the first official adoption of the name "Algeria" ...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is hosting a regional workshop in Lagos from Oct. 8 to 11 to review and validate the Host Government Agreement ...
A French-Cameroonian writer, Charles Onana, is due to go on trial in Paris accused of complicity in contesting the 1994 Rwandan genocide. About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus ...
Tunisia's President Kais Saied, seen as a saviour by supporters and an autocrat by critics, is running for re-election on Sunday in a vote that he is all ...
With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding anti-establishment backlash to a first term. The North African country’s Oct. 6 presidential election is its third since protests led to the 2011 ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — the first autocrat toppled in ...
The Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA) held the 9th Executive Committee meeting on Thursday in Abidjan, in the presence of Côte d'Ivoire’s Minister of Communication, Media ...
