The European Union is set to send humanitarian aid to Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria which was struck by devastating floods after a dam broke on 11 September following unusually heavy rains.

Retired major general Athmane Tartag, also known as Bachir, the former head of the DRS intelligence and security agency, has been placed under house arrest in the west Algerian city of Oran, where he ...

Angola's Force Petroleum is no longer a shareholder in the onshore block Cabinda South, located in Angola's oil-rich Cabinda province, the exclave wedged between the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The ...

As president of the Council of the European Union from July to December, Hungary's leader Viktor Orbán wants to put the Sahel on the Brussels agenda. To this end, his foreign minister Péter Szijjártó ...

The minister, who is close to Russia, seems to be falling out of favour with President Touadéra. Earlier this month, he was prevented from leaving the country to receive medical treatment. Livestock ...

The European Investment Bank is to co-finance the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Kafr el-Sheik, in the north of the country. The project is expected to cost €23m.

Killed, along with his two bodyguards, last week in a hotel in Beni (Democratic Republic of Congo) where he had just arrived, major Reuben Ikondere, the second-in-command of the UPDF force in DRC, may ...

Several players in the new information technologies sector are in the running to win two contracts to develop digital governance and identity management in Madagascar. By the end of the month, the ...

A meeting between African ambassadors to the European Union, the Africa directorate of the European External Action Service and the Directorate-General for International Partnerships is due to take ...

The draft reform of the Mining and Energy Code drawn up by Mines and Petroleum Minister Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly is causing concern among members of the Groupement Professionnel des Miniers de Côte ...

A 55-page due diligence report has been submitted to the court hearing the case contesting Transnet's award of the contract to operate Durban container terminal two and is critical of both the winner ...

Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua met with a round of applause when he called on the newly elected board of the country's leading private tea consortium, Kenya Tea Development Agency's (KTDA) ...