France's defense minister pledged on Monday to boost military support to Ivory Coast, as Paris adjusts its strategy in West Africa after neighboring Burkina Faso ordered French troops to leave and vowed to curb a worsening Islamist insurgency solo.
Sierra Leone's main opposition party has named Samura Kamara, the runner-up in the last presidential election, as its candidate for the next vote in June 2023.
South African power company Eskom expects record "Stage 6" outages, involving 10 hours daily without power, to remain until the peak hours late on Wednesday before they are reduced in intensity, Chief Executive Andre de Ruyter said on Monday.
The head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of widespread human rights abuses, said on Sunday he was committed to integrating the force into a reformed national armed forces.
Some opposition candidates in Democratic Republic of Congo have raised the alarm over delays and alleged irregularities in a voter registration drive that they say is being conducted to their disadvantage ahead of a general election in December.
South Africa's state power utility Eskom on Sunday said it would implement "Stage 6" power cuts continuously until further notice due to breakdowns of eight generation units on Sunday afternoon.
Burkina Faso’s armed forces Sunday confirmed that they have officially ended their military operations with France that were held in the West African nation.
Brazilian cocoa farmers are asking the local government to stop the flow of imported cocoa from Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer, saying those imports bring risks to the health of Brazilian plantations.
The United Nations on Thursday appealed for $1.3 billion to provide assistance to six million Nigerians who are suffering the impact of a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast of the country.
Political analysts labelled a joint naval exercise between South Africa, Russia, and China as risky and further expressed fears of the drills endangering important relations with Western partners.
President Joe Biden plans on Thursday to make his most extensive remarks yet about a high-altitude Chinese balloon and three other objects that were shot down by U.S. fighter jets, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Wednesday.
Rwanda's central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate to 7.0%, up from 6.5%.
Endeavour Mining has sold 200 kilograms of gold from its Mana mine in Burkina Faso to the West African country's government, the company has told Reuters.
As the anniversary marking the offset of the war in Ukraine approaches, the U.N. General Assembly announced that it will next week vote on a draft resolution focused on bringing peace to Eastern Europe.
Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the "uncontested" leader of the militant group, according to a new U.N. report on the organisation.
Inflation in Nigeria picked up again in January, hitting 21.82% in annual terms, driven by higher food inflation, its statistics agency said on Wednesday.
Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and disease experts, who warn it is now a year-round problem.
Zimbabwe's creditors will meet on Feb. 23 as the country takes steps towards clearing more than $6 billion of arrears on its foreign debt, finance minister Mthuli Ncube told Reuters on Wednesday.
Consumer inflation in Ghana slowed slightly to 53.6% year on year in January after hitting a more than two-decade high of 54.1% in December, the statistics service said on Wednesday as the IMF appoints a supervisor to coordinate a financial bailout.
The head of social media giant Twitter Elon Musk Wednesday said he will be stepping down from running the site towards the end of the year.
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