Africa News

Bujumbura, Burundi — Powerful explosions rocked an ammunition depot in the Musaga area of Bujumbura on Tuesday night, killing 13 civilians and injuring 57...

A new report by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) has documented the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of...

Nigeria has achieved a significant breakthrough in its long-standing efforts to recover cultural artefacts looted during the 1897 Benin Expedition, with the University of...

JUBA, South Sudan — Police in South Sudan have reported that more than 70 people were killed in a violent attack linked to a...

Kenya is grappling with the aftermath of weeks of relentless torrential rains and severe flooding that have now claimed at least 108 lives, according...

At least 20 people have been killed in landslides in southern Tanzania following days of intense rainfall, as extreme weather continues to batter parts...

Police in western Kenya have revealed that at least 33 bodies exhumed from a mass grave in the town of Kericho were transferred from...

ABIDJAN — Côte d’Ivoire’s (Ivory Coast) cocoa sector, the backbone of the West African nation’s economy, is grappling with a severe marketing crisis marked...

Benin has begun exporting pineapples to China, capitalizing on the Asian giant’s zero-tariff policy to gain entry into the world’s second-largest economy. The inaugural...

Extreme weather is disrupting traditional farming cycles and threatening food supplies across Africa, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. In the Democratic Republic...

Kenyan President William Ruto and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni jointly launched the construction of a key extension to the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) on...

Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, has been rocked by a series of suspected suicide bombings that killed at least 20...