A rare storm in the region is expected to bring torrential rain and stormy seas to coastal regions. A small but powerful tropical cyclone is threatening Djibouti and northern parts of Somalia with severe weather within the next 24 hours. ‘Sagar’ was named by the Indian Meteorological Department on Thursday, after beginning life as a […]

Announcement by First Vice President Taban Deng Gai comes days before peace talks are scheduled to begin in Ethiopia. An opposition faction controlled by South Sudan’s first vice president has said it will join the country’s ruling party. Taban Deng Gai said on Monday that the political opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – In Opposition (SPLM-IO) had […]

The head of former rebel Mozambique National Resistance movement passed away in central town of Gorongosa. Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambique’s long-time opposition leader and former rebel chief, has died aged 65, according to media in the country. Dhlakama, who headed the former rebel Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) movement, passed away in the central town of Gorongosa, […]

The UN’s children’s agency calls for $88m of aid to address the ongoing crisis in Congo’s Kasai region. Up to 400,000 children are at risk of starving to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo unless humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up, the UN’s children’s agency has warned. Fighting between government forces and regional militia in the […]

While Cyril Ramaphosa has moved quickly to overhaul state enterprises since becoming president in February, on other economic fronts the so-called ‘Ramaphoria’ effect has had little impact. It has been 100 days since Cyril Ramaphosa became South Africa’s president. He took office after his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, resigned under pressure from his party. Zuma had […]

Outbreak, first reported in a remote rural area, has its first confirmed case in Mbandaka, a city of 1.2 million. Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) sprawling northwest, taking the number of suspected infections to 43, according to the health minister. The outbreak, previously reported […]

Search and rescue missions under way as authorities look for survivors after boat capsizes in Mombovo River. At least 50 people have died in a boat accident in the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to officials. The boat which had been transporting passengers and goods tipped over in the Mombovo […]

Vuyo Ndata had nearly given up hope of going to university – but largely thanks to protests by South African students over high tuition fees – he is now a second-year undergraduate in Johannesburg at the age of 30. His fees are being paid for by the government, which was prompted to deliver on a […]

KAMPALA, Uganda — Growing up in suburban Ohio, Rajakumari Jandhyala never imagined she would end up in the oil business, much less on the front line of America’s global competition with China. She spent two decades as a policy adviser on Africa, most recently as an aid official in the Obama administration. But in 2016, […]

After weeks of protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian army’s chief of staff has called for the presidency to be declared vacant. BBC Monitoring profiles the country’s main centres of power and possible successors to Mr Bouteflika. The Military Algeria’s military has always had a pivotal role in politics, which was strengthened during the […]