Category: Africa News

South Sudan’s opposition leader, Riek Machar says he is ready to pursue progressive peace talks with president Salva Kiir, nearly a year after the latest peace … source

The Republic of Congo may soon be eligible for badly needed support from the International Monetary Fund. It follows an agreement by China to restructure … source

A South African judge adjourned until Friday morning a public inquiry into state corruption, after lawyers for former President Jacob Zuma said he was being … source

The phrase “Go back to Africa” has a long, complicated history, but did you know that today, it is still widely used in racialized contexts online and beyond. source

CAIRO (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has rejected comments that the global soccer body has taken a “colonialist” attitude towards African football … source

Africanews is a new pan-African media pioneering multilingual and independent news telling expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa. Subscribe on ourYoutube … source

A former Togolese interior minister in the Gnassingbé Eyadema regime, François Boko, who has been in exile in France since 2005, was on Thursday prevented … source

Nigeria’s National Assembly was on lockdown on Tuesday after shots were fired outside during clashes between police and a group of Shi’ite Muslim protesters. source

In his song “Handcuffed,” rapper Teddy Neguse addresses police brutality against young Israeli men of Ethiopian descent. Although the song came out in 2017, … source

Ugandan lawmaker and Afro pop artist, Robert Kyagulanyi – popularly referred to as Bobi Wine – is currently under house arrest barely 24-hours after he was … source