A new session of parliament has just begun in South Sudan which for the first time since the civil war comprises members of the governing party as well as former rebels. The creation of an a... Read more

More than 44,000 people, 45% of them children, are currently declared missing across Africa, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement marking the International... Read more

The Gambia has formally blocked flights bringing migrants deported from the European Union, the AFP news agency reports. Gambian foreign ministry spokesman Saikou Ceesay told AFP large numbe... Read more

Gunmen in Nigeria have freed a number of pupils who were kidnapped from an Islamic school in May, according to their head teacher. Some 136 students from the school in Tegina, Niger state, w... Read more

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has been appointed as the Africa Union’s envoy to the Horn of Africa. It comes amid political and security crises in the region, in particul... Read more

Mali’s former Prime Minister Boubèye Maïga has been arrested over alleged corruption during the purchase of a presidential plane seven years ago. His lawyer Kassoum Tapo said details a... Read more

Authorities in Nigeria’s central Plateau state have imposed a 24-hour curfew in the state capital Jos after gunmen killed at least 18 people during a raid on Tuesday night on a mainly Christ... Read more

South Africa’s decision to extradite former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country has been blocked pending a court hearing after a civil society organisation obj... Read more

The first group of 51 evacuees from Afghanistan has arrived in Uganda. The group landed at Entebbe International Airport aboard a private chartered flight on Wednesday morning, Uganda’s fore... Read more

Islamist groups in West Africa’s Sahel region have been using illegal weapons manufactured in Europe – particularly in Serbia, a study by human rights group Amnesty International has r... Read more

At least two people have been killed and another abducted in an attack on Nigeria’s top military academy. An army spokesman said unknown gunmen broke into the campus in the northern ci... Read more

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has said the former army chief will not be handed over to the United States where he is wanted for alleged drug-trafficking offences. Las... Read more

In his inauguration speech, President Hakainde Hichilema promised Zambians that change had arrived. The newly inaugurated leader, who won a landslide victory against the incumbent Edgar Lung... Read more

Chad’s ex-ruler Hissène Habré has died at the age of 79 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was being treated for a coronavirus infection, reports say. Habré... Read more