Africa

Sidi Ould Tah who formerly served as Mauritania’s finance minister was elected during a vote Thursday at the bank’s annual meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He replaces Akinwumi Adesina, a …

Health officials and representatives from various organisations met in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday to discuss the shortage of life-saving HIV/AIDS medication. Louis Gérald Gilles, member of the country’s Transitional …

The 13th international meeting of high level security representatives from over a hundred countries got underway in Moscow on Wednesday. On the sidelines of the summit, Russia’s Security Council Secretary …

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and infected more than 2,500 over the past week, authorities said on Tuesday. Most cases were reported in Sudan’s capital, …

Elon Musk’s Starlink telecoms business will not be given special dispensation by South Africa to bypass the country’s Black ownership requirements, Communications Minister Solly Malatsi said on Tuesday. Malatsi was …

Human rights group, Amnesty International, has accused the M23 rebels fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of possible war crimes. In a report published on Tuesday, it …

Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, an oncology nurse from Ghana, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award for her outstanding contributions to cancer care and nursing education …

Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila has returned to the country after years in political exile, arriving in the eastern city of Goma amid rising political and …

African ambassadors, business leaders, and regional experts gathered in Seoul on Wednesday for the Africa Day 2025 Korea-Africa Business Forum, exploring opportunities for cooperation in R&D, startups, infrastructure, and trade. …

A top court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon to 10 years of forced labour after convicting him of embezzling $245 million …