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Paris 2024
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News
8/9/2024 5:31:01 PM
President Mokgweetsi Masisi gave Botswana the afternoon off on Friday to celebrate Letsile Tebogo, the country's first Olympic gold medallist and the first African to be crowned 200-metre champion at a Games.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/8/2024 11:31:34 PM
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the Olympic 200 metres on Thursday as he -- and Covid --upstaged Noah Lyles' plans for a sprint double in Paris.
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World
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Africa
8/8/2024 8:57:53 PM
A top U.N. counterterrorism official told the Security Council that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of groups affiliated with the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist organizations.
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World
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Africa
8/8/2024 6:59:50 PM
Kenyan police on Thursday fired tear gas at protesters in Nairobi calling for the president's resignation as a new Cabinet was being sworn in, the latest in the deadly turmoil that has gripped the East African nation over the summer.
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World
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Region
8/8/2024 5:10:33 PM
Somalia's cabinet on Thursday endorsed legislation to allow a one-person-one-vote system for elections for the first time in more than half a century in the troubled Horn of Africa nation.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/8/2024 3:45:12 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed with Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh on Thursday threats in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/8/2024 12:52:01 PM
Ukraine on Thursday regretted Niger's decision to break off diplomatic ties, days after neighbouring Mali took a similar decision and accused Ukrainian forces of supporting insurgent groups in the African country.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/7/2024 9:24:41 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty discussed on Wednesday the latest regional developments with several global counterparts, highlighting Egypt's ongoing efforts to de-escalate the rising tensions in the region.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/7/2024 7:50:00 PM
Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a UN court to join South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel, the foreign minister said.
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World
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Africa
8/6/2024 12:24:26 PM
The US military withdrew from a final base in jihadist-hit Niger on Monday, more than a year after coup leaders in the African country demanded its troops leave.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/5/2024 9:50:09 PM
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced in a joint press conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Cairo on Monday that Ankara would submit a request next Wednesday to join in South Africa's genocide lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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World
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Africa
8/5/2024 2:52:46 PM
South African police said they rescued 90 Ethiopian migrants who were being held against their will at a property in Johannesburg.
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World
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Africa
8/4/2024 8:36:50 PM
The World Health Organization's chief said Sunday he was considering convening an expert committee to advise on whether the growing pox outbreak in Africa should be declared an international emergency.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/4/2024 8:36:37 PM
Ezinne Kalu scored 21 points and Nigeria made Olympic history by becoming the first African team, male or female, to reach the Olympic quarterfinals in basketball when it beat Canada 79-70 on Sunday.
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World
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Region
7/31/2024 6:30:57 PM
The punishing heat experienced around the Mediterranean in July would have been "virtually impossible" in a world without global warming, a group of climate scientists said Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/30/2024 7:37:09 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Chadian counterpart Mahamat Idriss Déby discussed in a meeting on Tuesday in New Alamein City a host of African issues of mutual interest, notably the developments in Sudan and Libya.
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World
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Africa
7/30/2024 4:56:29 PM
Ethiopia's currency lost 30% of its value Tuesday, the day after the central bank began implementing a flexible exchange rate policy backed by the International Monetary Fund as part of new measures to stabilize the eastern African nation's economy.
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World
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Africa
7/30/2024 4:49:08 PM
The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country’s biggest national parks, according to the African Union's commission on human rights.
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World
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International
7/27/2024 5:21:19 PM
UNESCO added Saturday the scene of an apartheid-era massacre and a village where Nelson Mandela lived as a boy to its World Heritage List, in an entry honouring South Africa's struggle that ended white-minority rule 30 years ago.
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World
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Africa
7/26/2024 6:49:11 PM
Senegal intercepted 200 "irregular migrants", the army said Friday, just days after 90 people drowned off the coast of Mauritania while attempting the same crossing.
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