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Two people died after a seven-story building under construction collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos in the early hours of Sunday and rescue efforts were underway to find survivors, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said. The building was being constructed next to a hospital in the neighborhood of Oniru, said …

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a resurgence of the Ebola virus after a new case was confirmed in the country’s eastern province of North Kivu. The new case was identified after samples from a 46-year-old woman in Beni, a town located in North Kivu, tested …

Unidentified attackers have taken control of a hotel in the Somali capital following two car bomb blasts and gunfire, police and intelligence officers said on Friday. “Two car bombs targeted Hotel Hayat. One hit a barrier near the hotel and then the other hit the gate of the hotel. We …

Suspected rebels have killed civilians and damaged a major hydropower plant under construction in Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the park operator said on Wednesday. Tuesday’s attack, which included the use of artillery, came from the direction of positions held by the M23 rebel group, …

Kenya’s defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga vowed Tuesday to pursue “all constitutional and legal options” after rejecting the outcome of elections that awarded victory to his rival William Ruto.

The United States imposed sanctions on three Liberian government officials, including President George Weah’s chief of staff, for what it says is their ongoing involvement in public corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday. The sanctions target Weah’s Chief of Staff Nathaniel McGill, Liberia’s Chief Prosecutor Sayma Syrenius Cephus, …

Deputy President William Ruto has won Kenya’s presidential vote, the election commission said on Monday, declaring him the new leader of the region’s richest and most stable nation.

France said on Monday that all of its troops battling the militants in Mali since 2013 have now left the country after a decision in February to withdraw over the deterioration of relations between Paris and Bamako. “Today at 13:00 (Paris time), the last military unit of the Barkhane force …

At least one person was killed and one severely wounded after torrential rain caused intense flooding in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Friday, a police officer said. Unusually heavy downpours hit the city for the second time in less than a month, sending brown, knee-deep water gushing down streets and grid-locking …

Tunisia’s powerful trade union UGTT has refused to take part in a limited dialog proposed by President Kais Saied with the aim of rewriting the constitution and founding a “new republic.”

Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region have arrested four employees of a US-based online media outlet, while the whereabouts of two others was unclear, the outlet said on Sunday, in the latest round of arrests involving media. The arrests would add to those of five journalists in another Amhara media …

An administration official said Trump’s decision was reversed due to a “heightened threat” from insurgents

Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele and at least four of the ministers who resigned are looking to succeed Buhari as Nigeria’s president.

Cholera has killed one child and infected 30 people in South Sudan, the first resurgence of the illness in nearly five years, health officials said late on Saturday.

Morocco foiled 63,121 illegal immigration attempts in 2021, the interior ministry said in a report published on Saturday.

News sources reported that eleven people were killed and nine others were wounded during attacks by al-Qaeda and ISIL-linked militants in northern Burkina Faso.

Germany will end its participation in the European Union training mission in Mali but is ready to continue with a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country under certain conditions, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Wednesday. France and allies fighting Islamist militants in Mali earlier this year said they would …

“Dozens” of Burundian soldiers were killed in an attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia, according to a security source in the region and a Mogadishu-based source, after the deadliest attack on the peacekeepers in five years.

To start his three-nation tour of West Africa, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on rich countries to increase their investments in African nations as the continent recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and is impacted by the war in Ukraine. “This war is aggravating a triple crisis: food, energy, …

Building collapses frequently happen in Africa’s most populous country. A three-story residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, killing at least five people, while many are feared trapped, emergency response services said. “Twenty-three people have been rescued alive including seven children and 16 adults,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of …