Africa

Armed rebels attacked a Chinese gold mine in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Sunday, May 12, 2024, killing at least four people, authorities said. China is one of the main partners in the CAR's mining sector. China is present in the mining sectors in several African countries, but recently, Chinese companies have suffered from…

Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), has called for increased investments across Africa to foster rapid growth and development. Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, Dangote highlighted Africa's potential as the future epicenter of global progress and stressed the need for strategic investments to bolster indigenous industries. Dangote cautioned against…

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko warned on Thursday that insistence on LGBTQ rights in diplomatic relations and from multinational organisations could lead to "anti-Western sentiment."

Eight men have submitted their candidacies for Mauritania's June 29 presidential election, including incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and his jailed predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who was previously ruled out of the race, according to an AFP count.

Worried by the lack of access to clean water, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has inaugurated a new drilling project, which aims to transform the lives of Luumo Kosam Dairy Cooperative in Chukun, Kaduna State.

The crackdown on demonstrations in Guinea has left at least 47 people dead, most of them young people, since the military seized power in September 2021, Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday. The West African nation's ruling junta banned all demonstrations in 2022 and has arrested a number of opposition leaders, civil society…

Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced Gambian former interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Sonko, 55, was convicted over a string of offences committed between 2000 and 2016 under the regime of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh. Reading the verdict, the clerk of the court said Sonko…

Chad’s opposition leader, Succès Masra says he has filed an appeal with the country’s constitutional council to challenge the preliminary results of the May 6 presidential election. He shared a copy of a receipt showing that documents had been filed with the council. The election’s preliminary results showed President Mahamat Deby Itno won with just…

More than seven million people in fragile South Sudan are at risk of acute food insecurity in the coming months, including tens of thousands at a "catastrophic" level of famine, the United Nations warned Tuesday. "An estimated 7.1 million people will likely be experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2024,"…

An Algerian man who had been missing for 26 years has been found in his neighbour's house, just a few minutes' walk away, the country's justice ministry said Tuesday. The man only identified as Omar B. had vanished at the age of 19 during the Algerian Civil War in 1998, and his family assumed he…

Junta-led Niger cut military ties with the United States in March because it threatened sanctions, Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in a Washington Post interview published Tuesday. Niamey announced in mid-March it was ending a military cooperation agreement with Washington, shortly after a US delegation left the Sahelian country. Niger has been a…

Togo's constitutional court on Monday confirmed provisional results from last month's legislative elections that saw President Faure Gnassingbe's ruling party win a crushing majority.