The 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Mahamadou Issoufou, outgoing President of Niger, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced. In a pr Read more »

At least 10 people have been killed and more than 30 other wounded after a car packed with explosives reportedly rammed into a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital. Police ... Read more »

Theo Sowa, the former CEO of the African Women's Development Fund, received this year's Unlock Big Change Award from during the annual International Women's Day event sponsored by ... Read more »

Joe Biden made his first call as U.S. president to an African leader last week, speaking with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. In November as president-elect, he called South ... Read more »

Weapons produced in South Africa are awash in Yemen and being used by numerous parties in that war, says a report by Open Secrets. Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitt Read more »

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has assumed office as Director-General of the World Trade Organization.  "It feels great. I am coming into one of the most important ... Read more »

The U.S. government has issued a statement urging Eritrea and Ethiopia to immediately withdraw their deployed forces from the war-torn Tigray region. This comes days after Amnesty ... Read more »

Five former ambassadors who led United States representation in Ethiopia for 13 of the past 25 years have issued a call for the U.S. to intensify efforts to address Ethiopia's ... Read more »

Members of Parliament are accusing unknown officials of "sneaking in" documents that had not been tabled in parliament. They said that until they are fully aware of the details of ... Read more »

Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, has been killed while travelling in the east of the country. The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says that ... Read more »