The Niger lawmaker, Mohammed Jafaru, travelling to Babanna for an official engagement when the ambush occurred.

The seven-week strike by university lecturers has ended after the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) and the Inter-Public Universities Councils' Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) signed a ...

A rising star from Botswana's Juvenile Championship programme and a member of the local ballroom dance troupe Moonlight Dance Studio, Abigail Modise has made history as the first young Motswana to be ...

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has submitted to the House of Representatives a groundbreaking Bill titled "An Act to Ban Harmful Cultural Practices in Liberia," seeking to outlaw female ...

There are concerns that continued political instability in Tanzania could have repercussions beyond the East African nation, ...

Analysis - Children and young adults are very much involved in campaigning against the climate change that older generations have caused. The global youth climate justice movement uses protests, ...

The African Development Bank Group's Country Manager for Algeria, Abdoulkader Dileita, presented his credentials to Ahmed Attaf, Algeria's Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National ...

An ongoing fuel blockade initiated by the JNIM jihadist group in Mali has brought the landlocked Sahel nation's economy to a near standstill. In an effort to isolate the capital, Bamako, and exert ...

At dawn in Manzese, a dusty township on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, silence hangs where the sounds of commerce once roared. The township, usually crowded with street cooks, vegetable vendors, ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2020, the country faced a double challenge: containing the spread of the virus while preserving an already vulnerable economy.

Announcement - In Jarra Madina, a small farming community in The Gambia's Lower River Region, life once revolved around a daily struggle for water. Women and girls would set out at dawn, walking up to ...

The NEPAD-Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF), a multi-donor special fund hosted by the African Development Bank, has successfully held its 40th Oversight Committee Meeting to ...