Families clung to trees and rooftops in Mozambique yesterday, trapped by rapidly rising flood water in the wake of what could prove the deadliest cyclone ever to hit southern Africa. With entire villages wholly submerged and one of the country’s principal cities all but wrecked, aid workers said they were in a race against time […]

Cyclone Idai has ravaged parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in what the UN says could be the worst weather-related disaster ever to hit the southern hemisphere. Entire cities have been destroyed. Millions of people were in the direct path of the cyclone. The total death toll is currently 180 but Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, […]

Kenyans have accused their government of ignoring drought victims following reports that at least 10 people have died of hunger in the north-western Turkana region. The hashtag #WeCannotIgnore has been trending on Twitter in the country. The Kenyan government has said more than 1.1 million people are facing food shortages. But authorities say this figure […]

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, […]

An aerial survey of Mozambique’s cyclone-hit province shows that a 50km (30 mile) stretch of land is under water, charity Save The Children says. The flooding was caused after River Buzi burst its banks, it adds. President Filipe Nyusi said at least 1,000 people could have been killed by Cyclone Idai which made landfall near […]

BEIRA (REUTERS) – More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique, while scores have been killed and more than 150 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe.  The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday (March 14) before the storm barrelled on […]

ADDIS ABABA/PARIS • The hunt for the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed all 157 people on board gathered pace on Saturday when investigators successfully downloaded the cockpit voice recorder and fresh details emerged of the final seconds of the flight. While experts say it is too soon to know what brought […]

Weeks of protests in Algeria have pushed long-time leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to drop his plans of running for a fifth term as president. However, he remains in office and protests have continued, with calls for him to resign immediately. The BBC’s Ahmed Rouaba looks at what might happens next in the country. The significance of […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The death toll from a huge cyclone that hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe last week stood at 150 on Sunday, with hundreds more missing and tens of thousands of others stranded and cut off from roads and telephones in mainly poor, rural areas, officials said. The cyclone, called Idai, has affected more […]

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Algeria’s capital to demand the immediate resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika despite him dropping his bid for a fifth term. On Monday, he postponed the planned 18 April presidential elections. Protesters, however, accuse the 82-year-old leader of illegally extending his term. Students have been leading the massive anti-Bouteflika protests […]