Africa

African Union celebrates 50 years and looks to next half century

25/05 13:06 CET

The 50th anniversary celebration of the organisation now known as the African Union has opened in the the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, in the presence of foreign dignitaries including heads of state from outside the continent. It began in 1963 as the Organisation for…

Niger - 24/05 08:56 CET

Niger suicide attacks fuel fears Mali conflict could spread

There are fears that militant violence in West Africa is spreading after…
Republic of the Congo - 24/05 01:04 CET

Extra UN troops for D R Congo

Peace may finally be on the way for the Democratic Republic of…
Niger - 23/05 17:46 CET

Militants attack French mine and army barracks in Niger

Islamist suicide bombers have struck at an army barracks and a French-run…
Niger - 23/05 10:07 CET

Two suicide bombers strike in northern Niger towns

Two suicide bombers have struck Northern Niger, injuring at least 16…
Egypt - 22/05 20:44 CET

Freed hostages prompt security issues in Sinai

The release of seven security men by their kidnappers in Sinai has…
Egypt - 22/05 14:34 CET

Egyptian security officers are freed by Islamist kidnappers

Seven Egyptian security officers kidnapped in Sinai last week have been…
Johannesburg - 22/05 11:08 CET

Oscar Pistorius’ brother cleared over woman’s death

The brother of South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been…
Egypt - 22/05 08:03 CET

Sinai: Egyptian hostages released - army spokesman

Seven Egyptian security officers kidnapped in Sinai last week have been…
Egypt - 21/05 11:34 CET

Egypt sends military reinforcements to Sinai

Egypt sent extra troops to Sinai – days after seven members of its…
Tunisia - 20/05 21:25 CET

Tunisia PM slams hardline Islamist group

Tunisia’s Islamist government has spoken out against hardliners…
Tunisia - 19/05 23:05 CET

Clashes leave casualties in Tunisia as radical Islamists defy…

One protester has died and several others have been injured in Tunisia…
Tunisia - 19/05 16:24 CET

Salafists clash with police in Tunisia after rally is banned

Police have clashed with hardline Islamists in Tunisia after the…
Alexandria - 18/05 14:44 CET

Row sparks sectarian violence at Alexandria in Egypt

It started as a row between two young men in Egypt’s second city of…
Nigeria - 17/05 11:14 CET

Nigerian army strikes out at Boko Haram in northeast

Nigerian forces have been attacking Islamist camps in the northeast in…
Morocco - 17/05 01:04 CET

Casablanca bombings remembered in Morocco

Morocco’s 21st century day of terror is remembered every May 16. It…
Mali - 16/05 19:00 CET

Mali's Traoré promises to spend donor euros well

At the end of a donor’s conference just held for Mali, its…
Egypt - 16/05 08:17 CET

Egypt: Militants planned French and US embassy attacks, reports…

An Al Qaeda-linked militant cell has reportedly been planning suicide…
Nigeria - 15/05 06:05 CET

Nigeria: State of emergency declared in northeastern states

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in…
South Africa - 14/05 23:25 CET

South African platinum miners strike over killing

South African miners have gone on strike, stopping production at the…
Rwanda - 14/05 20:58 CET

Rwanda building collapse

Reports from Rwanda say around a hundred people are trapped after a…
Libya - 14/05 01:07 CET

Libya: The government has got to go, say protesters

After hearing news of a deadly car bombing at a hospital in Benghazi…
Benghazi - 13/05 18:25 CET

Security concerns grow in Libya after deadly Benghazi attack

A car bomb has exploded outside a hospital in Libya’s eastern city…
Benghazi - 13/05 16:45 CET

Car bomb explodes outside Benghazi hospital in Libya

A car bomb has exploded outside a hospital in Libya’s eastern city…
South Africa - 13/05 16:23 CET

Anglo American shares hit by new job cuts plan

Shares in Anglo American Platinum have continued to drop dramatically…
Libya - 12/05 19:03 CET

Libyan militia go home as BP pulls out employees from Tripoli

After a two-week siege, Libyan militia have left their stations outside…
Libya - 12/05 09:15 CET

Former Libyan rebels lift siege of government ministries

Gunmen in Libya demanding the barring of Gaddafi-era officials from…
Egypt - 12/05 00:16 CET

Mubarak back in court for retrial

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been back in court for a…
Egypt - 11/05 12:45 CET

Former Egyptian president in court for retrial

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has once again appeared in court…
Libya - 10/05 22:15 CET

Libya: police stations bombed in Benghazi

Bombs exploded outside two police stations in the eastern Libyan city of…
Burkina Faso - 10/05 07:05 CET

Burkina Faso minister faints

Burkina Faso’s foreign minister has fainted during a joint press…
Nigeria - 09/05 19:06 CET

Nigeria shaken by two bloody massacres

More 50 fifty people were killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town of…
Nigeria - 09/05 15:04 CET

Nigeria : Militants killed 46 police officers in an ambush

According to local police, Nigerian militants have killed 46 police…
Egypt - 07/05 00:46 CET

Egyptians celebrate spring holiday

After a year of political turmoil, Egyptians have been taking some time…
Kenya - 06/05 18:05 CET

Kenyan court gives two Iranians life sentences for attack plots

Two Iranians have received life sentences in Kenya after being found…
Somalia - 06/05 08:35 CET

Somalia receives super-jab

Abdul Wahab is just six months old so is unaware he has made history. He…
Tanzania - 05/05 23:16 CET

One killed in attack on Catholic church in Tanzania

A suspected bomb attack on a new Catholic church in the mainly Christian…
Somalia - 05/05 15:46 CET

Somali suicide bomber hits Qatari convoy

A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people when he rammed his car into a…
Somalia - 05/05 09:54 CET

Somali bomb blast kills several officials

A massive car bomb has exploded in the Somali capital of Mogadishu…
Somalia - 02/05 13:46 CET

Somalia famine ‘left more than a quarter of a million people…

More than a quarter of a million people died because of the severe famine…
Mali - 02/05 08:06 CET

French Islamist convert captured in Mali

A French Islamist convert who had previously appeared on video…
Chad - 02/05 03:35 CET

Coup attempt foiled in Chad

Security forces in Chad have announced they have foiled an attempted coup…
Somalia - 01/05 08:22 CET

Danish and Filipino hostages freed after two year ordeal

Two Danes and four Filipinos who were held hostage in Somalia for more…
Libya - 30/04 17:26 CET

Gunmen surround Justice Ministry in Libya

Gunmen have surrounded Libya’s justice ministry in the capital of…
South Africa - 29/04 23:05 CET

South Africa's President Zuma visits recovering Nelson Mandela

South African President Jacob Zuma has paid a home visit to Nelson…
South Africa - 29/04 20:26 CET

Nelson Mandela appears in video for the first time after August

It’s been more than three weeks since Mandela was released after a…
Libya - 28/04 19:48 CET

Armed protest at foreign ministry targets new Libya…

Gunmen surrounded Libya’s foreign ministry in a protest against…
Algeria - 28/04 10:53 CET

Algerian President Bouteflika in Paris hospital

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to a…
Ethiopia - 27/04 18:05 CET

Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes maiden commercial flight

Boeing’s much-lauded Dreamliner flew into the skies and the history…
Chad - 25/04 13:14 CET

‘At the end the Germans always win’

To score four goals against a top Spanish club in the last decade or two…
South Africa - 24/04 18:06 CET

Desmond Tutu admitted to Cape Town hospital

South African Archbishop and peace campaigner Desmond Tutu is in a Cape…
Libya - 23/04 22:35 CET

French foreign minister visits Libya after embassy bombing

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has flown to Libya to inspect the…
Tripoli - 23/04 08:26 CET

'France will never give in' - foreign minister on embassy attack

Images have emerged of the explosion outside the French Embassy in the…
Nigeria - 22/04 21:45 CET

Carnage in Nigeria as troops and Boko Haram clash

Close to 200 people have been killed in intense fighting between the…
Cameroon - 19/04 11:49 CET

French hostage family released in Cameroon

A French family of seven has been released unharmed after a three-month…
Egypt - 17/04 17:32 CET

Mubarak goes straight to prison

Ex Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak has been sent back to prison in…
Egypt - 15/04 15:25 CET

Egypt's Mubarak cleared of murder to remain behind bars

Egypt’s Appeal Court has acquitted former President Hosni Mubarak…
Somalia - 14/04 22:45 CET

Dozens dead as terror returns to Mogadishu

Two suicide attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday have left…
Somalia - 14/04 18:04 CET

Violence returns to Somalia as 19 are killed in Mogadishu

The Somali capital Mogadishu has been hit by its worst violence this year…
Central African Republic - 14/04 10:45 CET

30,000 Central African Republic refugees believed to have…

Images have been released by the UNHCR showing the living conditions of…
Cairo - 13/04 21:46 CET

Outside the Mubarak trial, Egypt's divisions are clear

Outside the Cairo court anger and despair was on show from the relatives…
Egypt - 13/04 12:45 CET

Judge withdraws from Mubarak retrial

The presiding judge in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni…
Morocco - 13/04 11:14 CET

Five of the best for Ahansal

Mohamed Ahansal won the gruelling Marathon des Sables for a fifth time on…
Egypt - 12/04 22:16 CET

Egyptians suffer cuts and queues as fuel crisis bites

The news from Egypt since 2011 has been dominated by politics, upheaval…
Malawi - 12/04 19:19 CET

Malawi slams Madonna as "uncouth"

The government in Malawi has hit out at Madonna, branding the pop star an…
Mauritania - 12/04 15:14 CET

Warning of refugee crisis in Mauritania

Medical charity Doctors without Borders is warning that thousands of…
Republic of the Congo - 12/04 12:05 CET

M23 rebels will take on UN special force in DRC if attacked

The M23 rebel group in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of…
South Africa - 12/04 08:37 CET

Give up luxury cars, Archbishop Tutu tells South Africa…

South Africa’s veteran Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on…
Mali - 12/04 08:24 CET

Mali PM visits north and vows July elections will go ahead

Mali’s prime minister has become the first senior government figure…
South Sudan - 10/04 10:55 CET

Nine dead as UN convoy ambushed in South Sudan

Five peacekeepers and seven civilians working for the UN mission in South…
Kenya - 09/04 15:36 CET

Kenyatta swears oath of office as Kenya's new president

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya’s fourth president…
Egypt - 08/04 12:15 CET

Mursi condemns deadly Cairo violence against Coptic Christians

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has condemned the violence, which…
Cairo - 08/04 04:07 CET

One dead and more than 80 wounded in Cairo sectarian conflict

Fresh sectarian violence in Cairo on Sunday, left one person dead and…
Egypt - 07/04 04:07 CET

Violence erupts in Cairo on uprising anniversary

A march to mark the fifth anniversary of the uprising against former…
Pretoria - 06/04 15:40 CET

Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital in South Africa

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from…
Egypt - 06/04 10:27 CET

Euronews Correspondent attacked in Cairo

Euronews correspondent Mohammed Sheikhibrahim was attacked while…
Mali - 06/04 00:55 CET

France presses on with Mali troops withdrawal plans

The French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stated on a visit to the…
Egypt - 05/04 22:36 CET

Ultra-conservative Salafists target Iranian diplomat in Cairo

A crowd of ultra-conservative Salafist demonstrators in Egypt have tried…
South Africa - 05/04 19:50 CET

South African match-fixing scandal to be investigated

An independent judicial inquiry backed by football’s world…
Cairo - 05/04 00:56 CET

Egypt homing in on 3.7 billion euro IMF loan

Egypt is closing to sealing a 3.7 billion euro loan from the…
Uganda - 04/04 10:02 CET

US offers rewards for Kony and his cronies

The United States has offered rewards of close to four million euros each…
Egypt - 03/04 23:16 CET

Protests greet IMF team in Egypt for tough financial rescue talks

There was an angry welcome in Egypt for a team from the International…
Egypt - 03/04 14:13 CET

Egypt in tough talks over IMF loan

A team from the International Monetary Fund will spend at least a week…
Mali - 02/04 18:30 CET

EU begins Mali training mission

EU forces have started training Malian soldiers to quell an Islamist…
Port Louis - 01/04 17:29 CET

Deadly flash floods ravage Mauritius

A day of mourning has been declared in Mauritius after at least 11 people…
Pretoria - 01/04 12:45 CET

Nelson Mandela's health 'improves'

The South African government has said that Nelson Mandela’s health…
Central African Republic - 01/04 06:55 CET

New caretaker government for Central African Republic

The Central African Republic’s new leader Michel Djotodia has…
Port Louis - 01/04 03:25 CET

Mauritian capital Port Louis rocked by heavy floods

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has been hit by severe floods. At…
Egypt - 01/04 02:06 CET

Egyptian satirist surrenders to arrest warrant

A prominent Egyptian satirist has been accused by the authorities of…
Rabat - 31/03 23:06 CET

Morocco: union anger over govt that does not listen

Thousands of trade unionists in Morocco have demonstrated on the streets…
Kenya - 31/03 19:17 CET

Kenyatta thanks Kenyans for peace

Kenya’s president-elect has used an Easter Day mass in the capital…
South Africa - 31/03 17:15 CET

Easter prayers for Mandela in South Africa

Church congregations all over South Africa offered Easter prayers for…
Egypt - 31/03 15:46 CET

Egypt's TV joker explains presidential jibes to prosecutor

A prominent satirical TV presenter has appeared before Egypt’s…
Central African Republic - 31/03 00:07 CET

Self proclaimed CAR leader calls for exiles to return

Central African Republic’s new leader and self proclaimed president…
Kenya - 30/03 19:25 CET

Kenya Supreme Court confirms election result

The Supreme Court in Kenya has decided that the country’s…
Egypt - 30/03 18:25 CET

Egypt: arrest warrant for satirical TV host

In Egypt, the public prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the…
South Africa - 29/03 23:05 CET

Mandela 'doing well' but no sign of leaving hospital

Former South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is…
South Africa - 29/03 14:06 CET

Mandela in 'good spirits' in hospital

The former South African president Nelson Mandela, is in good spirits and…
Egypt - 29/03 03:06 CET

Egypt faces crisis with a devalued currency

Egypt is facing a major credit crisis as its banks hold a national…
South Africa - 29/03 01:06 CET

Messages of concern pour in for Mandela

Quiet concern surrounds the health of former South African president…

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