People fleeing violence load their luggage onto a bus before departure from Khartoum on May 30, 2023. The war in Sudan has caused nearly 1.4 million people to flee their homes, including more than 350,000 who have crossed into neighboring ... Read More

The United States scrambled on Sunday to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel after Niger's junta said it was ending its yearslong military cooperation with Washington following a visit by top U.S. officials. The U.S. military has ... Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied he is seeking to oust Western influence in Africa, as new analysis suggests the Kremlin's military intelligence arm has taken over activities of the disbanded Wagner Russian paramilitary group on the continent. In a television ... Read More

Supporters of Senegal’s top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, took to the streets of Dakar early Friday following his release from jail late Thursday, ahead of the presidential election later this month. Sonko is widely seen as the main challenger to President ... Read More

 Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong addresses the 78th session of the UNGA, Sept. 22, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said Friday the government will resume funding to the United Nations Relief and Works ... Read More

A major internet outage struck West and Central Africa on Thursday, as reported by the internet observatory Netblocks, which cited information from operators indicating multiple subsea cable failures. The precise cause of these failures remains unclear at this time. According to ... Read More

The British government is planning to pay asylum seekers up to 3,000 pounds ($3,836) each to move to Rwanda under a voluntary plan to help clear the backlog of refugees who have had their applications to remain in the country ... Read More

Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar. Chocolate-makers have already increased prices to ... Read More

Antony Blinken - US Secretary of State U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel must make the welfare of Palestinian civilians “job number one” in its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza. "We look to the government ... Read More

To ensure that their various capacities-building programmes yield the desired results, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has presented medical equipment and medicines to health facilities in the four northern regions. The medicines and facilities worth GH¢12.6 million were ... Read More