Africa
The colonel who led a military coup in the West African nation of Mali this week is now officially the country’s leader. Mali's Constitutional Court published a judgement late Friday declaring that Colonel Assimi Goita would assume the presidency. The judgment gives Goita, who is also the vice president, the power to lead the interim ...
French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country's role in Rwanda's genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday, seeking to reset relations ...
U.S. President Joe Biden said he is deeply concerned about violence in Ethiopia. "I am deeply concerned by the escalating violence and the hardening of regional and ethnic ...
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Saturday met with his Tunisian counterpart, Hichem Mechichi, in Libya's capital Tripoli, where they signed an agreement on mutual trade and ...
Nigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say. The incident happened as the plane was ...
At least 15 civilians were killed in an attack by heavily armed unidentified gunmen Tuesday night in northern Burkina Faso, an official source said Wednesday. The attack took ...
The Algerian army has killed a Mauritanian citizen, and wounded others, after it targeted them at the Mauritanian-Algerian border. The Mauritanian authorities has confirmed in an official statement ...
Police in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have fired tear gas to disperse a demonstration of people expressing solidarity with Palestinians. They marched behind a banner which said: "Kenyans stand ...
Three more African countries - Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria - have now detected the Indian variant of coronavirus, Dr Ngoy Nsenga, from the World Health Organization (WHO), has told the BBC. The confirmation brings to seven the number of African nations that have confirmed the B.1.617 mutation, which initial studies show ...
Portugal is to train Mozambican troops in an agreement aimed at boosting ongoing fight against an Islamist insurgency in the north of the southern African country. The agreement ...
