The fear of armed struggle in Cameroon [The Morning Call]
Secretary-General Patricia Scotland on official visit to Cameroon since Tuesday, has called for “unity and dialogue” as the country faces…
DR Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak
The first batch of 4000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat an outbreak suspected to have killed 20 people arrived in…
Gabon unveils $ 300 million port harbour
Gabon on Saturday officially inaugurated a new port harbour. The project is part of a plan to modernize the existing…
Togo’s opposition coalition boycotts talks with govt [The Morning Call]
Togo’s main opposition coalition, which has led protests against President Faure Gnassingbe for more than three months, has boycotted government…
Forty-four countries sign historic Africa Union free trade agreement
Forty-four African countries have signed up to a historic trade agreement aimed at paving the way for a liberalized market…
DRC economy facing hardship [Business Africa]
DRC economy facing hardship The Democratic republic of Congo, Africa’s first copper producer, is going through a declining economic crisis…
Angola looks to tourism while China’s manufacturing pace slows [Business Africa]
Angola looks to tourism In a bid to diversify its economy in the midst of oil crisis. Angola is shifting…
Scores of girls missing after Boko Haram attack in north-east Nigeria
An attack by Boko Haram militants has left more than 90 girls missing from a government secondary School at Dapchi…
DR Congo cannot afford $1.8bn to organize 2017 polls – Minister
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cannot afford the cost of holding elections this year. According to Minister of State…
DR Congo’s Kabila to meet companies over mining code revision
Democratic Republic of Congo President, Joseph Kabila will meet mining company representatives on Tuesday to discuss a mining code revision…
ECOWAS mission satisfied with conduct of Liberia’s run-off poll
The ECOWAS Observation Mission in Liberia has praised Liberians for their patience, determination and peaceful conduct of the presidential run-off…
124 killed by plague epidemic in Madagascar since August
A plague epidemic in Madagascar has killed 124 people since August in an outbreak that has hit the island’s two…
Somalia’s floodlit football returns 30 years later [Football Planet]
SOMALIA: FLOODLIGHTS FOOTBALL RETURNS AFTER 30 YEARS Somali football fans have a new pastime! The country on Friday witnessed the…
Morocco: Greenpeace action against fossil fuels
A few hundred young Moroccans gathered in Casablanca on Sunday in response to a call by NGO Greenpeace, for an…
Exploring Rwanda’s tourism potential [Travel]
Recent African tourism records show Rwanda as one of the fast growing tourist destinations in Africa. The country’s tourism’s industry…
Madagascar political tension [The Morning Call]
Robert Kodingo and Hannane speak to Lalatiana Ravololomanana a former minister and now member of opposition on the intrigues of…
‘I’ll be president for all Sierra Leoneans’ – Maada Bio after swearing in
Julius Maada Bio, Sierra Leone’s new president as required by law was sworn into office Wednesday evening by the Chief…
Hundreds of migrants disembark at Sicilian port of Trapani
A total of 371 migrants who were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Sea arrived in Sicily’s Trapani on Saturday,…
Uganda ready to receive 500 Eritrean, Sudanese refugees from Israel
Uganda is considering a request from Israel to take in 500 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, a minister said on…
Over 2000 evacuated as cyclone Ava closes in on Madagascar
989 people have been displaced by Cyclone Ava in Madagascar. This is according to an initial assessment by the National…
Angola bets on Agriculture and Morocco’s debatable Plan for Sub Saharan Africa [Business Africa]
Angola bets on Agriculture Angola has been on the spotlight for looking into diversifying its economy from oil and gas…
Sierra Leone Election: President Baï Koroma defends choice of successor
Sierra Leone’s outgoing President Ernest Baï Koroma has defended the presidential candidate widely seen as his handpicked successor. The nation’s…
A glimpse into Western Sahara [Travel]
Last week I spoke of travel and visa openness on the continent. The visa openness index has revealed that some…
Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed visits Jijiga on Oromia-Somali peace mission
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed travelled on Saturday to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his…
Senegal’s national revenue is in surplus with over 560 billion CFA [Business Africa]
Senegal economic situation Recent statistics released by the Senegalese office of economic planning, policies and finance revealed the national revenue…
Ethiopia’s coffee craze
Ethiopian coffee growers may be facing a threat from khat, but the culture of drinking it anytime is enduring this…
Grace Mugabe: the president’s typist who nearly became Zimbabwe president
The spectacular rise and fall of Zimbabwe’s uncompromising First Lady, Grace Mugabe, had an unusual beginning: an office affair. It…
Sierra Leoneans await official runoff results as APC, SLPP claim victory
The opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) said on Monday that its candidate Julius Maada Bio had won a presidential…
African athletes at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic [Sport]
Sport attention this February shifts to the city of Pyeongchang in South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The…
Experts brainstorm on funding conflict resolution in Africa
Various security experts from around the world are meeting in the Ethiopian city of Bahir Dar, which has been the…
Prayers up for plane crash victims across Algeria
Mosques across Algeria on Friday held absentee funeral prayers for the 257 victims of Wednesday’s military plane crash. Thousands of…
Nigeria: Deadly attacks in the Northeast [The Morning Call]
A new suicide bombing of a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on January 3, killed at least 14 people. The attack…
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi welcomes Sarkozy’s arrest [The Morning Call]
The arrest of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy continues to spark reactions from different quarters including that of Saif Al…
“High risk of Ebola spread” after new outbreak in DRC- WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is preparing for the “worst case scenario” as it responds to the Ebola…
Why African flights are so expensive [Business Africa]
African airlines urged to reduce fares With a population estimated at over a billion, Africa accounts for only 1% of…
Ethiopia parliament ratifies PM Abiy’s first cabinet
Ethiopia’s new prime minister named a cabinet on Thursday that includes the former mining minister as defence minister and retains…
Business for Africa forum kicks off in Egypt
Entrepreneurship is hailed as a key driver for economic growth in Africa and creating an enabling environment for businesses to…
Africanews celebrates 2nd anniversary
Africanews marks two years of broadcasting excellence Africanews is the pan-African news media, unique in its concept and vision. Africanews…
South Sudan govt deny rebel recapture of key Ethiopia border town
The South Sudan army has denied reports that rebels had retaken a border town with Ethiopia barely days after they…
Militants in U.N. disguise explode car bombs, rockets at Mali bases
Militants disguised as U.N. peacekeepers exploded two suicide car bombs and fired dozens of rockets at the French and United…
Spotlight on African tech startups [Hi-Tech on The Morning Call]
We take a look at some emerging African tech startups that have a potential of breaking through the global market.…
Japan-Africa: Fostering human resources in DRC
Despite the efforts made in this last 10 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a fragile country. Its development…
Opposition protests continue in Kenya hours to election rerun
Kenyan police used bullets and teargas on Tuesday to disperse a small demonstration in Nairobi two days before elections, as…
U.K. economic assistance to Zimbabwe will be hinged on democratic progress
Britain could take steps to stabilise Zimbabwe’s currency system and extend a bridging loan to help it clear World Bank…
Equatorial Guinea main opposition party dissolved
Equatorial Guinea’s main opposition party, Citizens for Innovation (CI), has been dissolved. According to the country’s Deputy Attorney General Anatalio…
U.K. strongly supports new Zimbabwe’s Commonwealth re-entry plans
Britain said on Friday it would strongly support Zimbabwe’s re-entry to the Commonwealth and praised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for impressive…
Robert Mugabe resigns as president of Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe has finally resigned as president of Zimbabwe, a week after the army took over power and placed him…
Congo security forces killed at least 34 in anti-Kabila protests – HRW
Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 34 people during protests this week against President Joseph Kabila’s…
Sudan’s male football club gets first female coach [no comment]
In Sudan, a national women’s football team remains a distant dream. But Salma al-Majidi broken the barriers to become the…
Kenya’s president leads by a wide margin in early results
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has won over 96 percent of the votes counted so far from Thursday’s re-run election, according…
African governments challenged to catch up with technological advancements
African governments have been challenged to go beyond mere rhetoric and show real commitment towards the advancement of science and…
The Female boxers of Goma, DRC
Uppercut, left hook, jabs and what more? It’s about different power punches, defense and skill. For those who do not…
Morocco severs ties with Iran over supporting Western Sahara independence mov’t
Morocco has severed diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement, the…
Liberia: George Weah’s presidential victory [The Morning Call]
From the football pitch to the presidential place. Former football star George Weah won the December 26 presidential runoff with…
Ethiopia’s prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigns [The Morning Call]
Ethiopia’s prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has resigned. State media FBC reported Mr Desalegn tendered his letter to the House of…
Eq. Guinea: Africa Economic Congress 2017 kicks off in Malabo
Growth and production should go hand in hand, but countries in the continent are struggling to make that a reality.…
African migrants settle in Libya
Dozens of African migrants are picking up new jobs in Libya after their journeys to Europe were cut short. These…
Global business of secondhand clothes thrive in Africa [Business Africa]
It’s big business* Heaps of clothes, scorching heat and choking dust, hawkers chanting prices, competing for the attention of shoppers,…
Congolese school girls visit Africanews to commemorate the IWD 2018 [No Comment]
In what has been an extraordinary year for women by many accounts, International Women’s Day was celebrated in style for…