July 13, 2023
Africa: African Leaders At Business Summit Call for Extension of Trade Deal With U.S.
Leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Botswana have urged renewal of the long-standing Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA). Read more »
Africa: Egypt Holds Conference With Sudan's Neighbours On New Ceasefire
Egypt is seeking ways to make an elusive cease-fire hold in the bloody Sudan conflict that has killed thousands and forced Sudan's residents into at least six neighboring countries… Read more »
July 12, 2023
Africa: Conflict, Climate Change, Inequality Trigger Surge in Global Hunger
Hopes of ending hunger by the end of this decade have all but evaporated as multiple crises -- climate change, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, including… Read more »
July 11, 2023
Africa: WFP - Growing Number of Refugees From Sudan's Darfur Region Crossing Into Chad
The United Nations food agency says thousands of people are crossing the border into the central African nation of Chad from neighboring Sudan to escape the nearly three-month-old… Read more »
June 26, 2023
Africa: Will Prigozhin's Brief Russia Rebellion Have an Impact in Africa?
Analysts say it's too early to assess how the Wagner Group's operations in Africa will be affected after its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to lead troops into Moscow over the… Read more »
June 20, 2023
Africa: UN's World Refugee Day Celebrates Courage and Contributions of Refugees
At a time of growing hostility toward refugees, the United Nations is marking World Refugee Day to honor the courage and contributions to society of people forcibly uprooted from… Read more »
June 17, 2023
Africa: Somalia Facing Uncertainty As African Troops Leave
A rapid collapse of state institutions may await Somalia when the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, or ATMIS, ends at the end of 2024, unless the United Nations' weapons… Read more »
June 13, 2023
Africa: Rwandan Refugees in Malawi Complain of Being Targeted and Victimized
Rwandan refugees and asylum-seekers in Malawi say they fear being deported or losing their right to stay in the country, following steps by the government to apprehend refugees… Read more »
June 08, 2023
Africa: U.S. Sees Militants Affiliates Pooling Resources, Growing Capabilities
U.S. officials tasked with tracking Islamic State are seeing worrisome signs that the terror group's core leadership is strengthening control over its global network of affiliates… Read more »
May 23, 2023
Africa: UN Chief - Warring Nations Must Protect Civilians
The U.N. Secretary-General said Tuesday that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect civilians, an obligation that is preserved in international humanitarian… Read more »
May 16, 2023
Africa: African Heads of State to Present Peace Initiative to Russia and Ukraine
South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, says a delegation of African leaders will soon travel to Russia and Ukraine to present a peace plan. Read more »
Africa: South Africa Military Delegation in Russia to Discuss Combat Readiness
South Africa's main opposition party is demanding to know why there is a high-level defense delegation in Moscow discussing increased cooperation and combat readiness. The news… Read more »
May 11, 2023
Africa: Number of Internally Displaced People Hits Record High
The number of people internally displaced globally hit a record 71.1 million at the end of last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Internal Displacement… Read more »
May 05, 2023
Africa: IMF Chief Advocates Africa Continental Free Trade Area
The head of the International Monetary Fund is urging African countries to implement the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. Read more »
May 03, 2023
Africa: Why China Is Investing in Africa's Green Energy Future
A wind farm in Namibia and a floating solar farm on Zimbabwe's massive Kariba Dam are among the new green energy projects Chinese companies are looking at investing in this year… Read more »
April 28, 2023
Africa: UN Weekly Roundup - April 22-28, 2023
Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch. Read more »
April 25, 2023
Africa: Cameroon to Redeploy Troops to CAR, Nigeria Borders Amid Spike in Attacks
Cameroon's military plans to redeploy troops to its borders with Nigeria and the Central African Republic after an increase in attacks from militants and rebels. Read more »
April 20, 2023
Africa: Ukraine Nobel Laureate Appeals to 'Neutral' South Africa
A Nobel Prize-winning Ukrainian is in Pretoria this week as part of a group urging South Africa's government to re-think its friendly relations with Russia as it wages war on Kyiv.… Read more »
April 19, 2023
Africa: VOA Interview - U.S. Senator Chris Coons On Africa, Leaked Documents
Top White House officials such as Vice President Kamala Harris and first lady Jill Biden have crisscrossed the African continent this year to implement what President Joe Biden has… Read more »
Africa: Why China Is Building Africa's New Parliaments
Zimbabwe's new parliament gives an architectural nod to the country's famous ancient ruins; Lesotho's has a design resembling a "mokorotlo," the conical straw hat that's part of… Read more »
April 18, 2023
Africa: G7 Foreign Ministers Highlight Concerns About Russia, China
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and highlighted the need to engage with China to address global challenges as they closed their… Read more »
April 10, 2023
Africa: South Africa's Facebook Rapist Arrested in Tanzania
Officials in Tanzania say they have arrested South African national Thabo Bester, a convicted murder known as the Facebook Rapist. Read more »
April 08, 2023
Africa: In Africa's Okavango, Oil Drilling Disrupts Locals, Nature
Gobonamang Kgetho has a deep affection for Africa's largest inland delta, the Okavango. It is his home. Read more »
April 06, 2023
Africa: Report - China Helped With Africa Pandemic Debt Relief
A new report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University is giving China better than expected marks for its performance in helping to restructure the crippling debt loads carried… Read more »
April 03, 2023
Africa: Network Helps Connect African Journalists On Climate Issues
As more people become concerned about the effects of climate change on their lives, journalists in an otherwise struggling industry are becoming specialized in the environmental… Read more »