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More than 10,000 hectares of Ruvubu National Park have been destroyed by bushfires. Understaffed and under equipped, park rangers are constantly battling the flames with little success
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Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha breaks the men's half marathon world record in a time of 56 minutes 51 seconds in a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires.
Representatives met in Switzerland to work out next steps to resolve the conflict.
Response teams in Ituri and North Kivu provinces have faced intense mistrust, fueled by rumors and misinformation, in a region also torn by violence from multiple armed groups
Former world champion boxer Zolani Tete has been shot and killed at his home in South Africa, government officials said Friday
In Addis Ababa, Tigrayan women gather to celebrate Ashenda, while expressing hopes for lasting peace in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where recent drone strikes on the regional capital Mekella have renewed fears of conflict after the devastating 2020-2022 war
In a suit before a court in Washington, Joseph Kabila who led Congo from 2001 to 2019 contends that his blacklisting by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in April was based on unsubstantiated allegations
Prospectors have come to West Pokot county in the hope a gram of the precious metal can change their lives.
When Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the city in 2025, leaving hundreds dead in fighting, Goma's cultural scene took a hit. Festivals slowly returned, but now an Ebola outbreak has forced another shutdown
Across the country, farmland that could feed the world's largest hunger crisis many times over lies fallow, as weary farmers once again find themselves in the crosshairs of faraway destruction
Zolani Tete, a former WBO bantamweight and IBF super-flyweight world champion, has been shot dead outside his home in South Africa.
American spy agency FBI returned dozens of looted artifacts to Egyptian government officials during a ceremony held Friday in Los Angeles
The dead, whose identities are unknown, were among the more than 90 migrants who lost their lives during Spain’s deadliest border crisis three weeks ago
More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late Friday, an AFP journalist saw, as the country faces the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history
Lissu, head of the opposition Chadema party, was detained in April 2025 and charged with treason, which carries a potential death penalty, for allegedly inciting the public to boycott last year's elections
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[Africa Business Investment Summit] Africa's business leaders will convene in Washington D.C., for the inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit (ABIS) 2026, taking place at MGM National Harbor 27-28 August 2026 as the centerpiece of Millennium Excellence Awards America.
Residents of Samburu County in northern Kenya have been describing the moments before a deadly helicopter crash that killed all seven people on board.
Algerian police released video on Thursday reportedly showing the results of a major drug bust. Police said they seized some 33 kilos of cocaine and more than 10 million capsules of the psychotropic substance pregabalin.
As the media landscape becomes increasingly digital and intelligent, the message from Beijing is clear: skills, technology and knowledge-sharing will be central to Africa’s ability to shape its own digital future.
During a visit to Mayotte on Friday, France’s former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed to crack down on immigration to the French overseas territory if he’s elected to the presidency next year.
An eagerly anticipated gathering of women will not be taking place following recent aerial strikes.
