South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday the end of the country's state of disaster brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. That means that many restrictions on daily life and business that have been in place for 750 days have officially ... Read More

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is the only person to be tried by the ICC over the Darfur conflict The first trial for atrocities committed in Darfur is due to open at the International Criminal Court (ICC), nearly 20 years after violence ... Read More

President Uhuru Kenyatta In a ruling Thursday, Kenya’s Supreme Court blocked changes to the constitution initiated by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Six of the seven judges ruled constitutional amendments must come from ordinary citizens, not the president. Following the hotly-contested 2017 election that ... Read More

Ethiopian authorities and rebels in the Tigray region are accusing each other of blocking aid deliveries to Tigray that had been agreed to a week ago. The ongoing fighting comes as the U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia visited the Afar region, ... Read More

Amir Aman Kiyaro An Ethiopian court has ordered Ethiopian journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be released on bail after being imprisoned for four months without charges. A judge in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Tuesday granted bail to Kiyaro while prosecutors determine ... Read More

A United Nations spokesperson says no one survived Tuesday when a helicopter crashed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with eight U.N. peacekeepers on board. Earlier, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the helicopter was carrying six crew members, all from ... Read More

West Africa's regional bloc on Friday said it would maintain sanctions on Mali over the military rulers of the Sahel country delaying a return to civilian rule after a coup. At the end of a summit in Ghana, the Economic Community ... Read More

Family members hold pictures of a 20-year-old Libyan suspected to have been disappeared, at his home in the Sidi Essid district of the city of Tarhuna, southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli, Nov. 10, 2020. U.N. human rights officials warn a ... Read More

Ethiopia's government on Thursday declared "an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately," saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands face starvation. Since war broke out in northern Ethiopia in November 2020, ... Read More

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has awarded a cost of $750 against Ghana in a matter in which the Government has been sued over the Agyapa deal. This is because of delay caused by Ghana (through the Attorney General) in filing ... Read More