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Africa

Mpox patients fleeing Goma hospitals in DRC violence

Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma have fled for their lives as violence engulfs the eastern DR Congo, the WHO said Friday.
By AFP 2025-02-14 18:35:19
The African Union will elect a new chairman over the weekend, with three candidates vying to represent some 1.5 billion people across the continent
By AFP 2025-02-14 12:45:00
UN chief Antonio Guterres called for an end to the influx of weapons fuelling war in Sudan, as leaders gathered in Ethiopia to discuss the "unprecedented" crisis on Friday.
By AFP 2025-02-14 12:11:49
Several of the DRC's nine neighbouring countries, as well as South Africa, already have a military presence on the ground
By AFP 2025-02-14 11:58:39
UAE called for a humanitarian pause in the Sudan war during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Ramadan, as leaders met in Ethiopia on Friday to discuss the conflict
By AFP 2025-02-14 11:27:21
SADC has written to all 16 member states seeking support for Madagascar's candidate in the race to succeed African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki.
By David Njaaga 2025-02-14 08:15:00
 Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is "critically ill" in jail three days after starting a hunger strike to protest his detention, one of his lawyers told AFP on Thursday.
By AFP 2025-02-13 20:18:15
Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is "critically ill" in jail three days after starting a hunger strike to protest his detention.
By AFP 2025-02-13 15:18:07
The higher education minister explained in October 2024 that the situation was triggered by "cashflow trouble" but also by the inconsistency of the university calendar.
By AFP 2025-02-13 12:16:59
United Aryan factory, on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, exists for one reason: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a 25-year-old US law that gives duty-free access to thousands.
By AFP 2025-02-13 12:03:57
For the first time in nearly two years of war, soup kitchens in famine-stricken Sudan are being forced to turn people away, with US President Donald Trump's aid freeze.
By VOA 2025-02-13 11:42:32
The Democratic Republic of Congo has closed its airspace to aircraft registered in Rwanda, national carrier RwandAir said on Wednesday, as conflict in the eastern DRC escalates.
By AFP 2025-02-13 10:41:14