he treason trial of South Sudan's suspended First Vice President Riek Machar, opens new tab opened on Monday under tight security in the capital Juba, with his lawyer arguing the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. Machar's detention under house arrest since March has ignited fears of a re
The Democratic Republic of Congo will lift its ban on cobalt exports from October 16 and manage global supply by imposing annual export quotas, the country’s strategic minerals regulator said on Sunday. Miners will be allowed to ship up to 18,125 tons of cobalt for the rest of 2025, with ann
South Africa's Democratic Alliance said on Saturday former leader Helen Zille would be its next candidate for mayor of Johannesburg, as the party seeks to win back control of the country's biggest city in next year's local government election. The 74-year-old was widely regarded as the main archit
Mauritius' Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said on Saturday he has asked Central Bank Governor Rama Sithanen to step down and will appoint a new second deputy governor on Monday and thereafter a new governor, amid signs of a power struggle at the bank. Deputy central bank governor Gerard Sanspeur r
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,
