Gambian vice-president Badara Alieu Joof has died while seeking medical treatment in India, the presidency confirmed in a statement in Banjul on Wednesday.It is not…

The report that the Nigerian Government sometimes borrows funds to buy petrol as the country continues to incur rising fuel subsidy bills is one of…

Amnesty International has warned that the arrest and harassment of Zimbabwe opposition supporters is a harbinger of a “chilling” run-up to the southern African country's…

The Peace Corps on Friday, January 13, 2023 celebrated 60 years of service in Cameroon at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé with the U.S.…

The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes stood at $82.25 a barrel on Monday, January 16, 2022, compared with $81.86 the previous Friday, according…

Ethiopia and Djibouti have reached an agreement to make readjustments to the prices of agricultural produces, primarily fruits and vegetables, traded between the two countries.The…

The authorities in Mbabane have dismissed as ridiculous falsehood reports that the state is hiring foreign mercenaries to pursue saboteurs of the kingdom's security, APA…

Ethiopia on Tuesday airlifted 1, 171 of its citizens from Saudi Arabia making the total number of returnees from the gulf nation since November 21, 2022 to…

The Pan African Institute for Development (PADI) has moved its permanent headquarters from Geneva, Switzerland to Dakhla in southern Morocco.The city will provide the central…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of EUR 500,000 from the French government towards its nutrition response for families affected by…

President George Manneh Weah, has recognized what he called the monumentally significant role Liberian women have played in the realization of peace and stability during…

The Joint Chief of Staff of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), Maj Gen Leopold Kyanda has said the number of detained persons circulated by…

Ugandan MPs have rejected the projected budget cuts in the tourism sector, saying it is a key contributor to foreign revenue and a remedy to…

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has slammed the high court decision barring him from pursuing a private prosecution against President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the…

Two brothers in Egypt have confessed to the honour killing of their sisters following complaints about their alleged misbehaviour by neighbours, APA has learnt.Local media…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a week-long mourning period for founding Speaker of South Africa's post-independence parliament, the presidency announced on Tuesday.During the period, the…

The Secretariat of the East African Community (EAC) on Tuesday condemned a bomb attack on a church in eastern DR Congo late Sunday which left several…

Mansour Essawy, the first Interior after the fall of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 85 after a long battle with…

Ghana and Jamaica have made a joint commitment to deepen diplomatic and cultural ties, which date back several decades, APA can report from Accra on…

The upward review of electricity and water tariffs for the first quarter of 2023 announced by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) is one of…

The national authorities in Libya should not relent in their commitment to the 2020 ceasefire agreement which put paid to active conflict among disparate groups…

The warning by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that some 25 million Nigerians risk severe hunger between June and August this year is one…

Kenyan health officials have been meeting on Tuesday to explore strategies for the improvement of the welfare of human resource in the sector, APA can…

The South African army is poised for joint military drills with international pariah Russia next month, heightening the prospects of further tension with the African…

Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of hunger during the lean season between June and August 2023 if urgent action is not taken, the…

The triumphant return which supporters of Imam Mahmoud Dicko wanted to give their leader back from the Holy Places of Islam on Saturday, January 14,…

Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has announced that the headline inflation rate for December 2022 eased to 21.34 per cent, down from 21.47 per…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will be departing Abuja for Nouakchott, Mauritania on Monday to receive the “African Award for Strengthening Peace'' in the Mauritanian capital…

South Africa's Presidency has welcomed Monday's high court ruling to stop former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa which was scheduled for…

Ethiopia's inflation rate eased to 33.8 percent in December 2022, after reaching 35.1 percent in previous month, the Ethiopian Statistics Service (ESS) disclosed on Monday.The…

It is noon at a health facility in Amaozanu Community, located at Ishielu Local Government Area (LGA), Ebonyi state, Nigeria.Lying on a bed at the…

The festival that featured photo exhibition of historical buildings of Asmara, the journey of struggle for national independence and nation building, seminar on the objective…

A collision between a public transport vehicle and a truck killed at least nineteen people on Monday 16 January in a town in northern Senegal.The…

South Africa's high court sitting in Johannesburg on Monday ruled that former president Jacob Zuma could not proceed in his private prosecution of President Cyril…

On Sunday January15, the Senegalese authorities said they had intervened with their Turkish counterparts to ensure that the perpetrators of a rape of one of…

In 2022, the Islamic State intensified attacks against Christians in Africa, Jihad Analytics found in a series of tweets posted Friday, Jan. 13; a trend…

The abduction involved two groups of women who had gone to collect leaves for cooking in the bush.A position of the Volunteers for the Defense…

Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw Sunday won a windy 10K Valencia Ibercaja marathon in missing the World record by 5 seconds. The men's race winner Weldon Langatfrom…

Captain Ibrahim Traore has created a special legion that brings together the specialized bodies and units of the national gendarmerie.The President of the Transition continues…

The World Bank has revised downward growth for nearly 60 percent of sub-Saharan countries, including more than 70 percent of metal exporters, which are expected…