Ivory Coast TV presenter convicted of glorifying rape
The court also fined the presenter, Yves de Mbella, 2 million CFA francs ($3,619.91) and banned him from leaving Abidjan,...
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Gunmen in Nigeria release schoolchildren abducted three months ago
The students were released after their parents paid a ransom of $140,000 (70 million naira) and gave motorbikes in ransom...
Tanzania women’s team react after President’s remarks about ‘flat-chested’ players
"To those athletes who are flat-chested, one can easily think that they are men," Hassan had said at a state...
Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema sworn in as President in rare victory for an African opposition leader
Hichilema was inaugurated Tuesday morning at a ceremony attended by leaders such as Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Malawi...
Second Nigerian “Chibok girl” freed in a week seven years after abduction
The kidnappings of some 270 teenagers in the northeastern town in 2014 sparked an international outcry and a viral campaign...
Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong says charges have been dropped
"I'm free!! All charges dropped!" Enonchong said Friday on Twitter. "We can retire the #FreeRebecca hashtag. So immensely grateful to...
Social media and messaging apps appear to be shutdown in Zambia on election day, Facebook says
"We've looked into this and can confirm that there seems to be a social media shutdown affecting our apps and...
Wildfire rips through Algeria, killing 42 people including soldiers
Dozens of separate fires have raged through forest areas across northern Algeria since Monday night and Interior Minister Kamel Beldjoud...
Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80% in one month, WHO says
WHO's Vaccine Introduction Officer for the African Region, Phionah Atuhebwe, told CNN on Monday that the continent was witnessing an...
Once considered a ‘city disease,’ Zimbabwe’s rural areas are being hit hard by Covid, and panic has set in
The chatter around the canteen is all about the death of a popular health official from Covid-19 in a nearby...
Tanzania’s President gets coronavirus vaccine live on TV, reversing country’s year-long policy of Covid denial
President Hassan was the first to receive the vaccine on live television and reassured the country that the shots are...
Tunisia political turmoil deepens as President sacks prime minister, freezes parliament
President Kais Saied said he would assume executive authority with the assistance of a new prime minister, in the biggest...
My uncle died before he could get a vaccine in Kenya. I got mine in a US drugstore. This is what inequality looks like
Even at 96, my Kenyan grandmother was among hundreds of millions in the developing world who was not vaccinated until...
Food and fuel running out in capital of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region
A communications blackout in the region, in place since Ethiopian forces withdrew and announced a unilateral ceasefire last week, has...
What it’s like to be one of South Africa’s ‘underground astronauts’
"I often don't respond to that name," she says. "I respond to 'Bones.'"Recently named a 2021 Emerging Explorer by the...
How a Nigerian model used a Russian beauty pageant and a bloodied flag to protest police brutality
The Nigerian student and model was intent on using the Miss Africa Russia platform to make a statement about the...
New video of Ethiopia massacre shows soldiers passing phone around to document their executions of unarmed men
That is all the villagers could find, six months after Ethiopian troops rounded up their loved ones and shot them...
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s charismatic first president, is dead at 97
His death was confirmed by Zambia's current President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who said in a Facebook post Thursday: "I learnt...
‘It was our children they killed’: Russian mercenaries implicated in the torture and killing of civilians in Central African Republic
Fatouma was at home with her children in the town of Bambari when the firing began, on the afternoon of...
Nigeria’s president vows to fight militant groups and fix economy as activists call for anti-government protests
"In the last two years we have witnessed and overcome a good number of tests and challenges" that are "especially...
