Africa
Nile countries trade blame as dam talks end without breakthrough
Ethiopia on Tuesday accused Egypt and Sudan of obstructing talks on its contested dam on the Nile, which ended with recriminations and ...Soldiers arrested in Niger after ‘attempted coup’
Soldiers were arrested in Niger after an “attempted coup” early Wednesday, a security source said after gunfire broke out in the capital ...Johnson & Johnson agrees to supply African Union with up to 400 million COVID shots
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to supply up to 400 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the African Union (AU) from ...Dozens killed in Mozambique Islamist attack
Dozens of people were killed in coordinated jihadist attacks in northern Mozambique’s Palma town, the government said on Sunday, four days after ...Tanzania swears in first female president after Magufuli’s sudden death
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli ...Tanzania’s President John Magufuli dead at 61, vice president announces
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent coronavirus sceptics, has died aged 61, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on ...UN alleges war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray, urges Eritrea pullout
UN leaders on Thursday alleged possible crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Tigray region including by Eritrean troops as they urged a pullout ...Kidnappers ‘release’ almost 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said ...Kidnappers release Nigerian schoolboys as search for 300 abducted girls continue
Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the northern state of ...Thousands flee Ethiopia violence, seek asylum in Sudan: UN
At least 7,000 people who fled escalating ethnic violence in western Ethiopia have sought asylum in neighboring Sudan, the U.N. refugee agency ...














