Africa

• March 02, 2025

  Ghana's first female world boxing champion smashes barriers

  She’s the first woman to travel the world as a member of Ghana’s national team

• March 02, 2025

  Morocco urges people to not buy sheep for Eid al-Adha celebrations

  7-year drought has decimated the country's livestock

• February 28, 2025

  WHO says water contamination suspected in Congo village hit by illness 

  Doctors are investigating more than 1,000 illnesses that have emerged since late January in five villages in Congo's Equateur province

• February 28, 2025

  US tariff hike on vehicle imports could impact Nigeria's auto market

  A 25% tariff on vehicles imported to the US could drive up car prices in Nigeria, where affordability is already a challenge

• February 28, 2025

  Chad’s groundbreaking asylum law gives Sudanese refugees opportunity to work 

  Nearly 1 million Sudanese have fled to Chad, where the country has taken the unusual step of letting them work. Due to a groundbreaking asylum law, refugees are able to rebuild their lives, while Chadian business owners are offering as many jobs as they can. Henry Wilkins reports from Adre, Chad.

• February 28, 2025

  Southern Africa pushes for better energy access

  Southern African countries discuss ways to accelerate a just transition to sustainable renewable energy

• February 27, 2025

  X influencer misleads on DRC offer of rare minerals to US, EU

  Tshisekedi's government invited the U.S. and EU to purchase minerals directly from the DRC, bypassing Rwanda-backed M23 fighters. There was no request for U.S. troops to intervene in the conflict.

• February 27, 2025

  Global splinters evident at G20 finance ministers meeting

  At the end of the event, South Africa announced there had not been consensus for a joint communique

• February 27, 2025

  At least 11 dead in DRC after blasts at M23 rally, rebels say

  Rebel leaders blame Congo’s government, while the president blames unspecified 'foreign' forces

• February 27, 2025

  UN rights chief warns of 'mass deaths from famine' in Sudan

  The warning came a day after the UN World Food Program temporarily stopped distributing food aid in a famine-struck camp for displaced people in North Darfur

• February 27, 2025

  Ethiopia PM visits Somalia as neighbors try to improve relations

  Abiy Ahmed meets with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu, as their nations try to mend relations strained by Ethiopia’s deal for sea access with Somaliland

• February 27, 2025

  School helps migrants in Mauritania; can it keep them from leaving for Europe?

  School is a response to rising alarm and anti-migration politics in Europe

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