Africa

The King of Morocco Mohammed VI delivers a speech in Addis Ababa on January 31, 2017.AFP/Zacharias Abubeker Morocco’s King Mohammed VI took a seat at the African Union headquarters on Tuesday …

African Union leaders have elected Chad’s candidate as the chairman of the 54-nation body on Monday at a summit where the divisive issues of Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal …

A Zambian law that entitles women to take one day off work a month when they have their period is stirring increasingly fierce debate in a country reluctant to discuss …

Airlines operating at Cairo airport were officially requested on Sunday to prevent U.S. immigration visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from boarding flights to the United States, Hossam Hussein, an …

Morocco is set to rejoin the African Union (AU) during the 28th African summit scheduled for Jan. 30 to Jan. 31 in Addis-Ababa, after leaving the pan-African organisation three decades …

The Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when they attacked a remote military base in Somalia the previous day, a claim the …

Young boys become Bamasaaba men through Ugandan tribal circumcision, a ritual the Ugandan government plans to promote to international tourists. Every two years, a ritual that is a few centuries old …

FIRST MASSIVE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS ON THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY, 2017. A call for good governance. A call for urgent explanation into the reckless economic downturn nationwide. A call for nationwide …

Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Tuesday it was hosting ousted Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who fled his country after West African troops threatened to remove him by force if he did …

Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel and stormed inside, killing at least 13 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Gunfire rang …