Year: 2025
Oil falls as potential Ukraine peace deal may ease supply disruptions
Oil prices fell on Thursday on expectations that a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia would end…
Detained Ugandan opposition figure Besigye is on hunger strike, his wife says
A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger…
Dry season in Ivory Coast triggers cocoa shortage fears, farmers say
A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September…
Egypt tells US top diplomat Rubio that Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza plan
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected…
South African party accuses white group of treason over Trump attack
South Africa's MK party filed a treason complaint on Monday against a group championing the white Afrikaner minority…
What is Afrobeats – and why is it so popular?
The musical genre is becoming more and more popular - a point made by artist Burna Boy, who…
Burkina Faso: Cooking with flavour powerhouse soumbala
The first thing that hits you is the smell. The pea-sized néré pods from the néré tree may…
‘No thanks’: White South Africans turn down Trump’s US immigration offer
US president’s executive order provides resettlement for Afrikaners ‘who are victims of unjust racial discrimination’.
Namibia’s ‘founding father’ Sam Nujoma dies aged 95
Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its…
Mali army says 25 civilians killed in convoy ambush
Insurgents killed 25 civilians and injured 13 others in an ambush of a military-escorted convoy near Mali's northeastern…
Trump signs order to cut funding for South Africa over land policy, ICJ case
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on…
African leaders call for direct talks with rebels to resolve Congo conflict
Leaders at an unprecedented joint summit of Eastern and Southern African blocs aimed at defusing the crisis in…
