BRUSSELS - Belgium's main museum dedicated to Africa has started delving into the origins of its enormous collection, as a first step towards possible restitution of items that were obtained in violent ways during colonial times.
N'DJAMENA - Chad's former opposition leader Succes Masra won a resounding vote of confidence as prime minister on Friday from MPs appointed by the military government.
ABUJA - Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged for his alleged role in what authorities call an attempted coup, left the country and arrived in Nigeria on Friday, sources told AFP.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to Switzerland, Swiss prosecutors said Friday, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza.
LAGOS, NIGERIA — Record inflation, a sliding naira currency and weak financial structure are keeping investors wary of Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, with some companies stepping away despite economic reforms under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
PARIS - Ukraine warned Thursday that its army faced a "very real and pressing" ammunition shortage in its grinding near-two-year battle against Russia, as Western allies met in Paris to agree new artillery supplies.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Authorities in Kenya say a donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb has blown up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others.
KAMPALA - Ugandan opposition leader and former presidential candidate Bobi Wine said on Thursday police had surrounded his residence and put him "under house arrest" ahead of a planned protest.
MOMBASA — A Kenyan court on Thursday charged the leader of a starvation cult with terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers.
DAKAR - Karim Wade, son and minister of former President Abdoulaye Wade (2000-2012), renounced his French nationality, which prevented his candidacy for the Senegalese presidential election in February.
Security forces in the Comoros clashed Wednesday with protesters angered by the re-election of President Azali Assoumani, as opposition leaders denounced this week’s vote as fraudulent.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Shell has reached an agreement with a consortium of companies to sell its onshore business in Nigeria's Niger Delta in a deal worth $2.4 billion.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories - Israel pummeled Gaza on Tuesday but reached a deal with Hamas to deliver medicines to hostages and desperately needed aid to civilians in the war-torn Palestinian territory following Qatari and French mediation.
LONDON-US rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs has agreed to withdraw allegations of racism against drinks giant Diageo, the company said Tuesday six months after ending their business link-up.
GOMA — The Democratic Republic of Congo's government is counting on soldiers from a southern African regional bloc to help it regain ground from the M23 militia in the lawless east, a senior army officer said Tuesday.
GENEVA - The number of adult tobacco users has dropped steadily in recent years, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday but it warned Big Tobacco was working hard to reverse that trend.
ISTANBUL — A Turkish court on Tuesday fined the son of Somalia’s president less than $1,000 for accidentally knocking over and killing a delivery driver in Istanbul, local media reported.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Britain's plan to send migrants to Rwanda returns to the spotlight on Tuesday, when lawmakers debate the controversial scheme, testing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's authority with a general election around the corner.
COTONOU, BENIN — Officials in Benin late on Monday announced that the nation received its first doses of a vaccine for malaria, the leading cause of infant mortality in the country.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso's former chief of staff of the gendarmerie who was sacked in October has been abducted from his home by unidentified "armed individuals," sources close to him said on Monday.
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