It looks like oil drilling is set to go ahead in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park after a French court on Tuesday dismissed a landmark case against TotalEnergies.
Together with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and state-owned Uganda National...
The West African states of Guinea and Ivory Coast are repatriating hundreds of their citizens from Tunisia, officials said Wednesday, after Tunisian President Kais Saied triggered a storm by accusing sub-Saharan migrants of crime.
"The most urgent thing is to...
France's President Emmanuel Macron began a tour of Central Africa on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to safeguard French interests in Africa, as anti-French sentiment runs high in a majority of African nations.
He landed in Gabon's capital Libreville on...
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden spent her second day in Namibia visiting Hope Initiative Southern Africa.
It is a nongovernmental organization that works to end poverty and hunger in marginalized communities in the region.
Some of its programs, including ones to...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in an area of northwest Burkina Faso where armed assailants killed two of its employees on Wednesday, the medical charity said in a statement.
"On the morning of Wednesday, February 8, a...
South Africa is facing a major electricity crisis, sometimes with no power for almost six hours a day. It is also affecting small business owners struggling to survive and forced to make hard choices.
"We can run the store which...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arrested an Operations Manager of a commercial bank in Abuja Central Area, for hoarding the new banknotes.
The suspect was arrested by operatives of the commission for allegedly refusing to load...
For the past ten years, an artist in shorts and sneakers has been coming to the homes of the world's disenfranchised, and leaving behind brightly colored murals on the walls around words like "Life" or "Peace. "The goal is to...
The frequent power cuts in South Africans is heavily impeding businesses especially the food and beverage industry.
The wine industry is among the hardest hit with many producers counting on huge losses from the ongoing power shedding.
The Southern African country...
Malawi's high court has lifted a recent government's suspension of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Martha Chizuma, a move that could see here return to work sooner than expected.
Ms. Chizuma's suspension was last week announced by the...
