Africa
Four workers were killed and at least 22 others were injured in a fire that broke out on Monday at a key data centre in Cairo, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the spokesperson at Egypt's Health Ministry, told Reuters on Tuesday. The blaze at a Telecom Egypt facility, which state TV said was contained on Monday, caused disruptions ...
Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he intends to contest in next year's presidential election, potentially extending his rule in the east African country to nearly half a ...
A deal signed in Washington on Friday has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has killed millions, including thousands ...
The Spanish maritime company Baleària presented on Tuesday in Tangier a project for an electric, zero-emission maritime link between Tangier and Tarifa, operated by two high-speed electric ferries ...
Africa's most industrialised nation is one of the largest polluters in the world and generates about 80 percent of its electricity through coal. This makes it "uniquely vulnerable" ...
Spanish intelligence agencies have detected a troubling rise in jihadist activity across the Sahel region of Africa, particularly in the triangle formed by Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. ...
Rwanda has said it would withdraw from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), underscoring diplomatic tensions in the region over an offensive this year by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...
A headquarters agreement relating to the establishment of the Regional Office of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) for Africa in Morocco was inked on Monday ...
At least 151 people have now been confirmed dead after heavy rainfall unleashed flooding in a market town in north-central Nigeria, the local emergency services told The Associated Press on Saturday. More than 3,000 people were displaced in the flooding in the town of Mokwa in Niger state, more than 180 miles (300 kilometers) west of ...
At least 21 people were killed in north central Nigeria on Thursday when their homes were destroyed by heavy rains and nearly a dozen were missing, the local ...
