10+ hour, 21+ min ago  (434+ words) Senegal President Bassirou Faye has sacked Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government following months of tensions and a burgeoning economic crisis. This was announced in a televised address on Friday by presidential aide Oumar Ba, who accused Mr…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago  (495+ words) A group of Senegalese football supporters jailed in Morocco after the Africa Cup of Nations final descended into chaos over controversial calls returned home on Sunday, after being pardoned by the Moroccan king. King Mohammed VI granted the 15 men a…...

10+ hour, 53+ min ago  (957+ words) By the second week of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo it was already clear that containing the spread of the haemorrhagic disease was proving to be difficult. On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization declared the…...

10+ hour, 52+ min ago  (317+ words) The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks demonstrate that the world is still vulnerable to rapidly spreading infectious diseases, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned on Saturday at the close of the 79th World Health Assembly in…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago  (312+ words) As international diplomatic efforts intensify in attempts to overcome Libya's prolonged political deadlock, a renewed US approach has emerged, marked by a noticeable tone of optimism that sits uneasily alongside the country's fragmented and volatile realities. Recently, Massad Boulos, Senior…...

14+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1005+ words) The revolutionary brothers who once shared prison cells, campaign stages, liberation trenches and political slogans eventually arrive at the same destination: the brutal crossroads of power. From Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe, to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (185+ words) Nigeria's minister of state Petroleum Resources (Gas) and President of the 2026 Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has called for a strategic approach to balancing natural gas exports with domestic utilisation across Africa....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (548+ words) [Independent (Kampala)] For years, Uganda's oil story has been told in the future tense. We've navigated a decade of discoveries in the Albertine Graben, sat through marathon negotiations, and watched the rigs rise with a mix of patience and prayer....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (747+ words) People driven from their neighbourhoods by anti-immigrant groups have spent five days moving between a police station, a church centre and Home Affairs For five days a group of immigrants in Durban have been camping outside buildings, fearing for their…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (481+ words) NAIROBI " World 3000m steeplechase champion Faith Cherotich and Commonwealth Games champion Ferdinand Omanyala will spearhead a rich Kenyan side that will be in contention at the second leg of this year's Diamond League in Xiamen, China on Saturday after (May 23). Following…...