Category: Rest of Africa

The gross domestic product of Africa's most industrialised country contracted by 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter, worse than expected by analysts.

Bozizé, 76, landed in the host capital Bissau on Thursday aboard a special flight from Chad, where he had been hiding since 2021.

The two heads of state held discussions encompassing political, economic, regional, continental and international issues.

President Biden’s move to renew the two-decade-old sanctions came a few days after the European Union (EU) decided to extend by another year its own arms embargo against the Southern African country.

Magda Robalo Correia E Silva was what the doctor ordered for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

Fulani by tribe, and now at 75, he is not tired, and despite attempts to dent his image, he won the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket in June 2022. It was the same party on which he served as Nigeria’s vice-president from 1999 to...

The court also nullified the implementation of the cashless system as well as Naira re-design policy by the Nigerian government, terming it as a breach of the country's constitution. 

An explosion on a Nigerian oil pipeline owned by Shell killed at least 12 people on Friday, authorities at the scene said, while members of the affected community in Emohua said they feared many more had died in the blast.

Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfil its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its result viewing portal (IReV). This led to calls by some political parties for...

But they also want the clans to decide their future, something likely to elicit reactions from Somaliland which claims to be independent of Somalia.