Africa

Ugandan officials on Thursday confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the capital city of Kampala, with one confirmed death so far.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has taken criticism for being in Africa at the beginning of the destructive wildfires – something she had previously pledged to avoid.

We mourn the sudden passing of Olga Meshoe Washington. Africans, Israelis, Christians, Jews and all who yearn for peace have lost a courageous advocate and a loving friend.

A number of international media reports have exposed an operation called “Alabuga Start” that lures young African women to work at a Russian drone factory and then effectively enslaves them – but African governments have done little to protect their citizens from exploitation.

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States will be donating $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Africans who were “displaced from homes” by droughts or a lack of food.

President Joe Biden unleashed a firestorm of controversy and further eroded public trust in his already damaged party by giving a shocking blanket pardon to his son, Hunter, on Sunday.

U.S. President Joe Biden ignored reporters’ questions on the granting of a surprise pardon to his son Hunter Biden when he landed in Cape Verde early Monday morning for a brief stopover on his way to Angola.

The government of Chad announced on Thursday it has canceled its military cooperation pact with France, its former colonial ruler.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) on Thursday called for President-elect Donald Trump to honor outgoing President Joe Biden’s pledge to supply a million doses of monkeypox (or mpox) vaccine for the outbreak in central and eastern Africa.

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election was big news across Africa, although much of the news coverage was not jubilant.

Fast & Furious star Idris Elba plans to move to Africa within the next decade and settle there, the London-born actor told the BBC on Tuesday.

Gay-rights activist Father Timothy Radcliffe, who will be made a cardinal by Pope Francis in December, has blamed African opposition to homosexuality on “intense pressure” from outside influences like American evangelicalism.

China’s Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical announced the first phase of its new manufacturing plant in the Ivory Coast will be completed by the end of this year.

The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-profit human rights group, and the UK Guardian on Wednesday accused fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of gleefully posting images of themselves committing war crimes, including the burning of civilian homes and the torture of prisoners.

Beijing’s three-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) concluded on Friday with more pledges of funding for Africa, even though China’s sputtering economy may be hard-pressed to meet those commitments.

ROME — Immigration laws should not be made stricter but rather looser, to allow more immigrants to cross international borders, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where a new outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.

U.N. experts warn the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region.

The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned on Tuesday that a new and deadly strain of monkeypox, or “mpox,” is spreading among “sex workers” in the conflict-prone eastern part of the country.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), taking over five rotating “non-permanent” membership slots from Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, and Mozambique.

President Joe Biden said he would help Africa “build back better” in a second term, if reelected, during an interview on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden promised to designate Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO ally” during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday.

Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”

The first “illegal migrants” to be deported to Rwanda have been detained, but thousands have already slipped through the net or gone missing.

U.S. forces were expelled from both Niger and Chad this week, dealing a serious blow to the Biden administration’s diplomacy and counter-terrorism policies in Africa.

The Congo has sent Apple a cease-and-desist order threatening legal action unless the tech giant stops using allegedly illegally exported minerals.

“Poster boy” for the anti-deportation movement who held a “migrants are not criminals” sign at a protest has pleaded guilty to rape.

China’s state-owned oil company CNPC, the China National Petroleum Corporation, has signed a $400 million deal with the military junta that controls Niger, providing a much-needed infusion of cash after the coup damaged relations with Niger’s previous big oil customers, the United States and France.

Roughly 1,300 African migrants gathered outside New York City Hall on Tuesday over what some believed were promises of a green card.

Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah told a meeting of Catholic bishops in Cameroon this week that they had offered an inestimable service to Church unity by their “courageous and prophetic” opposition to the blessings for gay couples recently permitted by the Vatican.

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank based in Washington, DC. issued a report on Monday that advised the U.S. to develop stronger trade relationships with African countries in order to become less dependent on Communist China for vital minerals.

At least 94 people were killed after an unlicensed and heavily overloaded ferryboat capsized off the northern coast of Mozambique.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio declared a national emergency on Friday over surging abuse of kush, an addictive drug that can be manufactured from powdered human bones. Addicts have been digging up graves to get the bones they need, prompting the police to station guards around cemeteries in the capital city of Freetown.

France will aim to renew ties with Africa and build “balanced partnerships” that are beneficial to the continent, France’s top diplomat said.