Africa
10 Apr
The new CEO of the world's top crypto platform stressed the importance of regulatory compliance for Binance's future success, months after its former chief executive pleaded guilty to violating US anti-money laundering laws and it paid $4.3 billion to settle charges. In an interview with AFP during a visit to Paris for a cryptocurrency sector…
10 Apr
An Ethiopian opposition official from the sensitive Oromia region was found shot dead on Wednesday, a few hours after being arrested by government forces, his party said. Bate Urgessa of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) party was released on bail last month following his detention alongside French journalist Antoine Galindo. The 41-year-old was arrested again…
8 Apr
Rescuers searched off the northern coast of Mozambique on Monday after a makeshift ferry boat carrying people fleeing a cholera outbreak capsized, killing at least 97.
8 Apr
Judges in South Africa will on Tuesday rule on whether former president Jacob Zuma will be allowed to appear on the ballot in May elections.
8 Apr
Mortar fire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed three Tanzanian soldiers who were part of a southern Africa force deployed to help government troops battling M23 rebels.
8 Apr
Thirty years after genocide tore their tiny nation apart, Rwandans gathered in their capital city on Sunday for a candlelight vigil to remember the dead and hope for a better future. Thousands of people congregated at the Kigali arena, holding up candles in memory of those slaughtered, as a choir performed. Like the majority of…
7 Apr
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Sunday said the international community had "failed" his country during the 1994 genocide, as he paid tribute to victims 30 years after Hutu extremists tore apart the nation.
7 Apr
Rwanda on Sunday paid solemn tribute to genocide victims, 30 years after a vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore apart the country, as neighbours turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century.
7 Apr
Sudanese paramilitary forces have killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum, a local activists' committee said on Sunday.
6 Apr
Zimbabwe's central bank launched a new "structured currency" backed by gold on Friday, as it seeks to tackle sky-high inflation and stabilise the country's long-floundering economy. The ZiG -- short for Zimbabwe Gold -- will replace the Zimbabwean dollar which has tumbled in value over the past year, pushing inflation through the roof, Reserve Bank…
6 Apr
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a "breakaway" government on Friday, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles following his landslide election win last month.
5 Apr
The head of Niger's military government on Thursday ordered the dissolution of all local councils and put an army officer in charge of the capital, state media announced.