Category: Africa

French authorities said they had seized 2.4 tonnes of cocaine from a vessel in the Pacific during a joint operation with the United States, as officials step up interceptions in Polynesian waters.

Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, University of Manchester The Tigray region in Ethiopia’s north has endured one of the world’s deadliest armed conflicts of the 21st century. Between 2020 and 2022, as many as 800,000 people were killed (out of a regional population of about 7 million). This rivals estimates from recent major conflicts, including those in […]

  The African Union has once again reaffirmed its firm commitment to respecting Sudan’s independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unity.

Somalia on Monday signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, as the Horn of Africa becomes an arena for proxy wars between regional powers

Ethiopia/// — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, expresses his deepest concern and strongly condemns the drone attack carried out against Kisangani Airport, in eastern the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and claimed by the armed movement AFC/M23.

Unidentified gunmen have killed dozens of people in a ferocious attack on two villages in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, local lawmaker Saidu Baba Ahmed has told BBC Hausa.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been mentioned in the latest tranche of the Epstein files, after his name appeared in several emails from the late sex offender and others.

Amidst an apparent wave of enforced disappearances targeting government critics in Tanzania, BBC Africa Eye presents powerful testimonies from survivors of abduction and torture.

Mosques, as well as churches, in Nigeria are targets of insurgent groups. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nigeria “must do more to protect Christians,” a senior U.S. State Department official demanded on Jan. 22, 2026, during a high-level security meeting in the African nation’s capital, Abuja.

Sudan// — Millions of children in Sudan have missed nearly 500 days of learning since the war started in April 2023 in what has become one of the world’s longest school closures, surpassing the worst shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, Save the Children said.