Category: Rest of Africa

Kenya’s President William Ruto, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Djibouti’s Ismael Ghuelleh were expected in Mogadishu anytime from Wednesday for a high-level summit amid tight security.

Somalia and South Sudan are the most corrupt countries in the world, according to the latest ranking index by Transparency International (TI).

Oumar left home in Guinea five years ago in search of a better life in Europe, but today he inhabits a daily purgatory of hunger, cold and police violence in Morocco.

This is the first time for the Ethiopian leader to visit Khartoum since border clashes between the two neighbours erupted.

A US military raid in Somalia ordered by President Joe Biden killed a key regional leader of the Islamic State group, Bilal al-Sudani, US officials said Thursday.

President Samia told the Feed Africa Summit in Dakar on January 25 that her government has set aside 680,000 hectares to be allocated to women and youth for agricultural use, looking to feed the continent.

On Friday, Canada had announced that it had “accepted the mandate to facilitate” the peace process in Cameroon - including negotiations and confidence-building measures between the government and some separatist factions to resolve the bloody armed conflict that has also uprooted nearly 800,000 from their...

Both trips are part of what is seen in diplomatic circles as competitive drives to increase leverage in Africa through alignments with key states on the continent.

Troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Nigeria’s troubled north east have killed more than 56 terrorists, intercepted logistics and rescued abducted civilians in a renewed offensive against jihadists.

Seven soldiers were killed in an attack Friday by Al-Shabaab on a military camp in a Somali town retaken by the army this week in a major offensive against the jihadist group, the government said.