Once completed, the site will be Africa's largest hydropower dam Ethiopia says it has thwarted a planned attack by an Eritrean-backed group on its vast Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts a two-day trip to Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday, part of her push to limit migrant flows to Europe through North Africa, especially chaos-torn Libya. Since the...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday appointed a top aide as prime minister, reinstating a post he had abolished after coming to power in a 1989 coup, an official said. Bakri Hassan Saleh...
As hundreds of South Sudanese fleeing famine and civil war enter Sudan each day, aid workers warn of a lack of vital relief supplies, especially for malnourished children. "We have a shortage of...
NO former African leader has claimed the $5m (£4m) Mo Ibrahim prize this year – the sixth time in 10 years that it has not been awarded. The prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an...
In formulating a new executive order limiting travel to the United States, President Donald Trump has promised to make the directive harder to fight successfully in court than the one he issued in...
The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership — the world’s biggest individual prize — drew a blank once again in finding a suitable laureate, it was announced Tuesday. The prize only...
The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership -- the world's biggest individual prize -- drew a blank once again in finding a suitable laureate, it was announced Tuesday. The prize only...
Uganda was named best English speaking country in Africa Ghana is conspicuously missing in the first three best in English speaking countries in Africa according to a survey conducted by World...
No former African leader has claimed the $5m (£4m) Mo Ibrahim prize this year – the sixth time in 10 years that it has not been awarded. The prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected...
World Linguistic Society names Uganda as top, followed by Zambia, South Africa and Kenya Uganda's government-owned New Vision newspaper has a story this morning which has got everyone talking. It...
After enduring years of fighting and food shortages, it was the deaths from hunger of many old women and children that finally made Rebecca James decide to flee South Sudan. Tired and hungry, James...
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had...
In a massive display of confidence and a demonstration of readiness to handle the top Ghana coaching job, former Black Stars skipper and Asante Kotoko coach ‘Golden Boy’ Abdul Razak has...
The Ghana Football Association is yet to open application for the vacant Black Stars coaching position. Media reports claim over 60 expatriate coaches have applied to replace Israeli Avram Grant....
About 32,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan since the start of the year, with tens of thousands more expected to arrive fleeing a famine in their country, the UN refugee agency said Sunday. On...
A Sudanese female journalist and critic of government policies said Sunday that she is under fire from hardliners who have accused her of "insulting Islam" in one of her columns. Shamael al-Nur said...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has ordered the release of a Czech Christian aid worker sentenced to 24 years in jail on charges of spying and inciting hatred, a minister said Sunday. Petr Jasek,...
Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations' refugee point...
Former Ghana skipper Abdul Karim Razak, popularly known as Golden Boy is the first local coach to have openly expressed interest in the vacant Black Stars coaching job, GHANAsoccernet.com...
