Category: Rest of Africa

Dozens of Burkinabe citizens fleeing a surge of racist attacks in Tunisia arrived in Ouagadougou on a government-chartered plane on Wednesday, an AFP reporter saw.

The cyclone which has affected 13 districts in the southern region of Malawi has also left 707 people nursing injuries and has displaced over 83,000 people from 18,689 households.

Ethiopia and US are discussing ways of consolidating the historical relations between the two countries, said a statement by the ministry of foreign affairs.

Mr Alexis Deswaef had arrived in the country two days earlier before officials from the Djibouti Security and Documentation Service picked him up on Monday and deported him to Ethiopia, the country he had last boarded a plane to Djibouti.

Moroccan Ambassador to Kenya Abderrazzak Laasel told The EastAfrican his country was no longer interested in forcing the hand of countries to abandon the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). But he admitted the SADR existence as a separate entity impedes economic partnerships with those with...

“In total, 99 deaths have been recorded with 16 people reported missing and 39 camps set,” Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodoma) said late Monday.

The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and Mozambique passed 200 on Tuesday after the record-breaking storm triggered floods and landslips in its second strike on Africa in less than three weeks.

The death toll from a ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon last week has risen to 21 and the search continues for 16 people still missing, the public prosecutor said Tuesday.

He is the highest-ranking US official to visit Africa's second most populous nation since war broke out in late 2020 between Ethiopia's government and Tigray rebels, fraying US relations with its long-time ally as Washington alleged crimes against humanity.

Fighting in villages around the city of Goma has intensified, with both sides accusing each other of breaking the truce.