President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised the high school-leaving class of 2024 for achieving a record 87.3 percent pass rate in South Africa’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. Ramaphosa ...

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has awarded a United Arab Emirates company the contract to print ballot papers for the 2026 general elections, ECZ chief electoral officer Brown Kasaro ...

French Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin announced on January 12 his intention to end the 2013 agreement that allows holders of Algerian diplomatic passports to travel to France without a visa. This ...

Cairo over the weekend hosted the first tripartite regular meeting of the foreign ministers of Eritrea, Egypt and Somalia during which issues of common concern were on the agenda. At Saturday’s ...

One of Nigeria’s leading commercial banks, First Bank PLC is planning to expand to at least three African countries in its next growth phase as financial systems across the continent open up new ...

Zen Bada, who previously served as Mayor of N’Djamena, was convicted in 2012 on charges of forgery, using false documents, and embezzlement of public funds and sentenced to five years in prison.

The head of the military junta in Sudan, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, continued his West African diplomatic tour with an official visit to Guinea-Bissau, following a strategic stop in Mali. After ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit near Āwash area of central Ethiopia’s Āfar region on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. According to the center, the earthquake occurred ...

The Group CEO of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), Temi Popoola, has reiterated the transformative potential of Africa’s capital markets at the launch of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) ...

The controversy over wearing niqab in the town of Axum in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has heightened as Muslim Grade 12 students missed the deadline to register for the national examination. School ...

Somalia has announced its candidacy for a seat on the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) for the 2025–2028 terms. In a press release issued over the weekend, Somalia outlined key ...

The Ethiopian parliament has approved a draft proclamation aiming at regulating the trade of petroleum products across the east African country. The legislation intends to combat smuggling, hoarding ...