French President Emmanuel Macron (C) listens during a conference about restitutions of African heritage during a conference at the Benin stand during the Africa-France summit in Montpellier, southern France on Oct. 8, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron faced the frustration of ... Read More

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - Director General of WHO The U.N. secretary-general and the head of the World Health Organization launched an ambitious strategy Thursday to have 40% of the world’s population vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of this year, ... Read More

Compaore was forced to resign in 2014 after 27 years in power Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore is the main defendant in the trial on the 1987 murder of his predecessor. Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore, the main defendant ... Read More

A view shows Nigeria's Central Bank headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria November 22, 2020. Picture taken November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will launch the eNaira, its digital currency, in a couple of days from now, ... Read More

Four out of five of South Sudan's 11 million people live in 'absolute poverty', according to the World Bank in 2018 At least 623,000 people have been affected by widespread flooding in South Sudan since May, with many forced to ... Read More

Nigerian security agents on Thursday rescued 187 people who had been abducted by armed gangs in the northwestern state of Zamfara, police said, after authorities launched a sweeping security operation against the kidnappers. Since December last year, Zamfara has been at ... Read More

Google said an undersea cable being built by Google to link Africa and Europe should come into service in the second half of next year. Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access ... Read More

Abdulrazak Gurnah  Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, it was announced on Thursday. The Academy praised Gurnah for for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee ... Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. The WHO recommendation is ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed The U.N. Secretary-General told Ethiopia’s government Wednesday that it should show him any documents or evidence the country has to substantiate accusations related to the expulsion of seven senior humanitarian officials from the country. In a rare and ... Read More