Africa
Libyan authorities limited access to an inundated city Friday to allow searchers to dig through mud and hollowed-out buildings for 10,000 people missing and feared dead in flooding that has already killed more than 11,000. Authorities warned that disease and explosives shifted by the waters could claim yet more lives. In the most affected areas, efforts to ...
The death toll from devastating floods caused by Storm Daniel in Libya has risen to 6,000, a unity government official said on Wednesday. Speaking to Anadolu, Saadeddin Abdul ...
At least 40 people were killed in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, according to an activist group. In a statement, the ...
Sudan’s government has encouraged airlines to resume flights to Sudan, after EgyptAir became the first commercial flight to enter or leave Sudan since its descent into conflict in ...
The leader of Gabon's military junta has vowed to return power to civilians after "free, transparent" elections. However, in a speech after being sworn in as interim president, ...
Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better? Or in a French-African context, how come President Emmanuel ...
Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the country's transitional leader. Gen Nguema was earlier carried ...
At least 73 are dead, many of them homeless, as fire rips through a rundown building in South Africa
A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown apartment building mainly occupied by homeless people and squatters in Johannesburg, forcing some to throw babies out of third-story windows in ...
Burkina Faso's Cabinet has given the government the greenlight to send troops to help defend neighboring Niger, where the military deposed President Mohamed Bazoum about a month ago. A Cabinet statement late Wednesday said the government was allowed to deploy a military contingent to Niger "in line with our country's strategic commitments." "Without warmongering, it ...
The EU defense ministers gathered on Wednesday to discuss recent developments in Africa and the bloc's support for Ukraine. The EU defense and foreign ministers hold a two-day ...
