At least 107 people have died after a whaleboat caught fire in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal government report seen by Reuters on Friday. The boat, a narrow, double-ended open vessel caught fire on the Congo River near Malange village in Lukolela territory
Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region. Ethiopia, the continent's second most populous nation with over 120 million people
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the central province of Kasai, the country's 16th since 1976. Health Minister Roger Kamba announced at a press conference in the capital of Kinshasa that the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus
Maman Soki is among a small group of Congolese women undertaking heavy mining work for survival after escaping a deadly attack on her village by Islamic State-aligned rebels that killed her daughter and her sister. In April, the 49-year-old widow left her home in the east of the Democratic Republi
At least 60 people were killed and dozens rescued after a boat capsized in Nigeria's north-central Niger State, local authorities said on Wednesday. "The death toll of the boat incident has risen to 60 and the casualty figure is rising," said Abdullahi Baba Ara, chair of Borgu local government are
At least 70 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of West Africa, Gambia's foreign affairs ministry said late on Friday, in one of the deadliest accidents in recent years along a popular migration route to Europe. Another 30 people are feared dead after the vessel
Senegal authorities said they had detected a case of mpox in a foreign man who arrived in the West African country last week. The health ministry said it was the first case it had detected this year. It was not immediately clear how many cases, if any, had been reported there before January. "The
The Nigerian Air Force has rescued 76 kidnap victims, including women and children, after a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in northwest Katsina State, authorities said on Saturday. The operation, targeting Pauwa Hill in Kankara Local Government Area, was part of a manhunt for a gang l
Nigeria's air force said it killed at least 35 Islamic fighters in air strikes near the Cameroon border on Saturday, following intelligence that the group was planning an attack on ground troops. The strikes targeted four assembly points, air force spokesperson Ehimen Ejodame said in a statement,
Uganda has not reached any agreement with the United States to take in illegal immigrants because it lacks necessary infrastructure to do so, a senior foreign affairs ministry official said on Wednesday. "To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilit
Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, UN and local officials said. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels were taking revenge on civilians after suffering de
More than 40 people were missing in a boat accident in Nigeria after a boat conveying 50 passengers to a popular market in northwest Sokoto State capsized on Sunday, the country's emergency agency said. They were travelling to Goronyo market, a popular food produce market in the state, when the bo
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size. Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts contin
