West African nations want to strike deals with the US over energy and rare earth minerals, but the Trump administration's looming expansion of travel bans risks derailing those efforts, Nigeria's foreign minister said on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump this month implemented full or partial t
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed legislation that allows military tribunals to try civilians, parliament said on Monday, a move opposition leaders said violates a Supreme Court ruling. Rights campaigners have long alleged that the government has used military courts to persecute politi
At least 100 people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a village in Nigeria's central Benue state, Amnesty International Nigeria said Saturday. The attack took place from late Friday into the early hours of Saturday in the village of Yelewata, the group said in a post on social media platf
At least 32 people were killed and dozens remain missing in Democratic Republic of Congo's Equateur Province after two boats carrying more than 100 passengers capsized in Lake Tumba, local authorities told Reuters on Thursday. The boats departed Bikoro port on the eastern shores of the lake on Wed
The death toll from devastating floods triggered by heavy rainfall in Nigeria's central state of Niger has climbed to at least 151, local authorities said on Saturday. Ibrahim Hussaini, spokesperson for the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, said that over 50 more bodies were recovered on Sa
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted southwest of Africa at 0536 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 53.31 degrees south latitude and 9.16 degrees east longitude.
Former Mauritanian Finance Minister Sidi Ould Tah has been elected president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the lender said on Thursday, after a poll during the bank's annual meeting in Ivory Coast. He will replace Akinwumi Adesina, a Nigerian economist who will step down in September aft
Congolese former president Joseph Kabila has arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma for talks with locals, three people close to him told Reuters, a month after declaring he wanted to help end the crisis in the war-ravaged region. If confirmed, the visit could complicate a US-backed bid to
South Africans praised President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday for keeping his cool amid US President Donald Trump's false claims of a white genocide in their country, but wondered why their leader had made the trip to Washington. Ramaphosa had hoped his talks with Trump in the White House on Wednes
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the White House on Wednesday on a delicate mission to persuade US President Donald Trump to make deals with his country rather than scold and punish it as he has done since the start of his second term. Attacking South Africa's land reform law aimed
Congolese minerals such as tungsten, tantalum and tin, which Kinshasa has long accused neighbouring Rwanda of illegally exploiting, could be exported legitimately to Rwanda for processing under the terms of a peace deal being negotiated by the US, three sources told Reuters. Kinshasa views the plu
The bespectacled, grey-bearded man ran out of the primary school in Khartoum's Amarat district, shaking with shock. He, like thousands of others, had returned to check on buildings retaken by the army after two years of civil war, only to find a new threat lurking in the rubble of Sudan's capital,
Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Monday that Equatorial Guinea has a legal claim to several small islands in the potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of Guinea, settling a decades-long dispute with neighbouring Gabon. In its final and binding ruling the ICJ, also know
