Category: Rest of Africa

A statement released by Mali's sports ministry read, "The minister invites the sporting public and the youth of Mali to a great mobilisation on November 17 and 20... to celebrate this historic victory of the armed and security forces with the Eagles of Mali" —...

The move was announced after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $175-million loan for the southern African nation. 

Tuesday's "election day was calm, and we noticed organisational improvements of the process since the first round," said the European Union (EU) Observation Mission's Deputy Chief Observer Jarek Domanski.

The deadly unrest includes outbreaks of interethnic violence and attacks against women, according to the global body.

The Indian Ocean Island nation is the leading global producer of vanilla but also one of the world's vulnerable countries and has been shaken by successive political crises since independence from France in 1960.

The incident had happened on October 31, but the bank did not confirm it until Thursday this week.  The identity of the officials was not given. Although, grapevine had it that two staffers of the bank had been involved in a public fight with a...

Ethiopia's food crisis has deepened in recent years as a result of war in the Tigray region and the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades.

President George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and former vice president Joseph Boakai of the opposition Unity Party, the top two finishers in the country’s October 10 election, are squaring off in a runoff.

Samwel Abilio Sianga, the Angolan Ambassador to Kenya said on Saturday the country’s turn-around from a war-ravaged place to an oil producing giant has brought them plenty of lessons.

The decision came at a meeting between the two in Nairobi, the details of which were only leaked by diplomatic sources in on Monday morning.