Tanzania: Tanzania's Government Lifts Ban On Political Rallies

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a six-year-old ban on political rallies. Her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, banned public rallies in 2016, one year after… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana's Hyperinflation Cools Holiday Season

Record inflation in Ghana, the highest in 21 years, is making the holiday season a struggle for many people. The high cost of living has forced many Ghanaians to cap their… Read more »

Namibia: Namibia Halts Russian Uranium Exploration Over Environmental Concerns

Namibia has halted Russia's state atomic energy agency's uranium exploration over concerns about potential contamination of underground water. Read more »

South Sudan: Thousands Displaced in South Sudan Ethnic Violence, UN Reports

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, or UNOCHA, says an estimated 30,000 people from South Sudan's Greater Pibor Administrative Area have fled… Read more »

Africa: Major Losses Shift Islamic State, Al-Qaeda's Balance of Power

Across the United States and many other Western countries, the threat from Islamist terror groups has been increasingly overshadowed by the threats from other extremist groups,… Read more »

West Africa: Deaths, Instability Increase Across the Western Sahel in 2022

Countries in Africa's Western Sahel region -- including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger -- saw a 50% increase in deaths due to conflict in 2022. That's according to figures from the… Read more »

Tunisia: Many Leaving Tunisia As Democracy Unravels, Economy Flounders

The photo of 15-year-old Walid Zreidat stares out from a banner, a serious-looking youngster with bright brown eyes and a Levi's T-shirt. Flanking him are those of 17 other… Read more »

Ethiopia: African Union Monitoring Team Visits Ethiopia's Tigray to Oversee Cease-Fire

East African and African Union officials arrived in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end… Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroon Offers Birth Certificates As Millions Denied an Education

Fourteen-year-old Ernestine Elimbi smiled and waved her birth certificate Thursday at the Endom district ceremonial ground in Cameroon's center region. Read more »

Somalia: Somalia's Defector Rehabilitation Centers Face Financial Uncertainty

As Somalia security forces dislodge al-Shabab from new territories in the central regions, the United Nations agency running al-Shabab defector rehabilitation centers says it has… Read more »

Ethiopia: Journalist Hopes Coverage On Ethiopia's Tigray Will Bring Justice

Lucy Kassa never expected to be a war correspondent. Working for a Norwegian magazine, the freelance journalist wrote about issues related to development and the economy in… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: South Sudan Sends 750 Troops to DRC

South Sudan is sending 750 troops to join the East Africa Force trying to bring peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, despite its own struggles to restore peace back… Read more »

Somalia: Civil Servants Mostly 'Ghost Staff' On Government Payroll - Somali President

Somalia's president over the weekend said the vast majority of paid civil servants were neither in the country nor working. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said 3,500 of 5,000 people on the… Read more »

Nigeria: Police Probe Officer Accused in Pregnant Lawyer Shooting

Nigerian police say they are investigating an officer who shot and killed an unarmed pregnant lawyer after she left a Christmas church service. A spokesman for the Lagos city… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Airlines to Resume Daily Flights to Tigray

Ethiopia's flagship carrier Ethiopian Airlines has announced it will resume daily flights to Tigray region's capital Mekelle as an African Union-brokered peace deal moves forward. Read more »

Algeria: Press Freedom Group Calls for Release of Algerian Journalist

Reporters Without Borders has called on Algerian authorities to release journalist Ihsane El Kadi, director of the news outlets Radio M and Maghreb Emergent. Read more »

Somalia: U.S. Congresswoman Hails Somali Army Successes Against Al-Shabab

U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar hailed recent victories scored by the Somali government and local community forces against al-Shabab militants in central Somali regions. Read more »

Zambia: Hichilema Repeals Defamation Law and Death Penalty

Critics of Zambia's law against insulting the president have welcomed the government's repeal of the controversial measure as a step forward for democracy. Rights groups say the… Read more »

Cameroon: Nation Rallies to Support Displaced Children

Cameroon is marking Boxing Day, the day after Christmas when gifts are traditionally given to the poor, with a nationwide gift drive for internally displaced children. Cameroon's… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Federal Govt Officials in First Post-War Visit to Tigray

Ethiopian officials have for the first time in nearly two years arrived in Tigray's capital Mekelle to join in overseeing implementation of a November peace deal. Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroon Military Denies Involvement in House Burnings in Northwest Region

Rights groups in Cameroon have accused the military of torching scores of homes this week of suspected separatist supporters, leaving hundreds of people homeless this holiday… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Tigray Rebels Agree to African Union Monitoring Team

Kenya's former president, Uhuru Kenyatta, will travel to Ethiopia's Tigray region to oversee monitoring of last month's peace deal. Ethiopian federal and Tigray region officials… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Mixed-Race Children Taken From Belgian Congo Mothers Sue for Crimes Against Humanity

A group of mixed race women who were abducted as children by state officials in what was then Belgian Congo is suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity. As Henry… Read more »

Cameroon: Abuses of LGBTQ People Increasing in Cameroon - Rights Activists

Human Rights Watch said in a report this week that LGBTQ people are suffering a fresh wave of persecution in Cameroon, where same-sex relations are illegal. Read more »

Cameroon: In Face of Threats, Lawyer Defends LGBTQIA Community

In a country where homosexuality is criminalized, Alice Nkom was the first lawyer in Cameroon to defend suspected gay people.  For this, she says she has faced attacks and… Read more »