Tag: Africa

Uganda's economy will expand by 5.2% in the fiscal year 2017/2018 after slipping to 5% in 2016/17, helped by infrastructure ...

Nigeria has picked an African Development Bank power expert to run its electricity transmission company.

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has confirmed that he will not run in 2017 presidential elections.

The AU has launched an Africa-wide public health agency, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

The UN Chief says his visit to the AU Heads of State Summit allowed stakeholders to establish a higher platform ...

The non-binding decision to withdraw came Tuesday near the end of an African Union summit.

Doctors are concerned that there's a new strain of drug resistance malaria.

The fighting that erupted in July in Juba South Sudan has reversed all the gains that have been made and ...

African Union mediator in the Sudanese conflict Thabo Mbeki has expressed optimism about the peace process in the troubled country.

Cameroon's Camrail bears "total and entire responsibility" for a passenger train accident that killed at least 79 people in 2017.

Negotiations to persuade the defeated President Yayha Jammeh of Gambia to step down have failed.

Burundi has been warned by The Great Lakes Committee on Peace and Security that it risks suspension from the organisation.

Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in as Ghana’s president on Saturday in a ceremony attended by dozens of African leaders, sealing ...

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert in case ...