Libya plans to shut down three of its biggest migration detention centres, the country’s Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has announced. The centres in question are in Misrata, Tajoura and Khoms. It follows criticism that migrants were being returned to Tajoura after it was hit by a deadly missile attack in July. That “outrageous” attack could […]

The one-year-old daughter of a man who died of Ebola in a major city of the Democratic Republic of Congo has contracted the disease. His wife has also been infected. Neighbouring Rwanda briefly closed its border over the virus outbreak which has entered its second year. It is the first transmission of the disease inside […]

Police on the African island of Madagascar are investigating whether a British teenager deliberately threw herself to her death after escaping from a tiny two-door plane as it cruised over the savannah. Cambridge University student Alana Cutland (19) fell from the Cessna after carrying out research in the remote area of Anjajavy on July 25, […]

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Created in 1960 from a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia collapsed into anarchy following the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in 1991. As rival warlords tore the country apart into clan-based fiefdoms, an internationally-backed unity government formed in 2000 struggled to establish control, and the two relatively peaceful […]

KINSHASA, Congo — Rwanda closed its border with Congo on Thursday in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak, while the Congolese Health Ministry said the 1-year-old daughter of a man who had died of the disease in the border city of Goma had Ebola. The man was Goma’s second confirmed Ebola case, and he died […]

Rwanda has closed its border with DR Congo in response to the Ebola crisis. At least two people have died from the virus in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, near the Rwandan border. It is one year today that DR Congo declared what has become its worst outbreak, with more than 1,800 people dead […]

Africa is facing a looming debt crisis, say leading development economists. “Almost 40% of sub-Saharan African countries are in danger of slipping into a major debt crisis” according to the Overseas Development Institute, ahead of a major conference on debt being held in London this week. And the relationship between African nations and China is […]

The United States has been losing influence in Africa – but its top diplomat to the continent wants to turn this around. “For too long when investors have knocked on the door, and the Africans opened the door, the only person standing there was the Chinese,” Tibor Nagy, the US assistant secretary of state for […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe — It had been five days since water had stopped flowing out of the taps at Eneres Kaitano’s bungalow in southern Harare, Zimbabwe’s modern and tidy capital city. Five days since she had done any laundry. Five days since she had forbidden her children from using the toilet more than once a day. […]