The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court weighs prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing.

Rescue operations are underway in South Africa and Mozambique, where flooding has claimed dozens of lives. It comes after weeks of heavy rains have lashed the two neighbouring countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump has turned his fire on a deal between Britain and Mauritius to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic U.S. military base.

Anthony Joshua’s two associates died in the December accident while he was hospitalised with injuries.

Morocco’s Prime Minister has held discussions with a U.S. delegation as the two countries seek to bolster strategic relations. It comes after Morocco accepted an invite to join Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’.

Morocco’s Prince Moulay Rachid welcomed the country’s national football team at the Royal Guest Palace in Rabat on Monday, a day after their defeat against Senegal in the AFCON final.

Nigerian police have rejected reports that worshippers were abducted from churches in Kaduna state on Sunday, insisting that no such attack took place.

Millions of Ethiopian Christians have been celebrating Timket, or the Orthodox festival of Epiphany.

The ICC deputy prosecutor told the United Nations that civilians are being subjected to collective torture.

Armed men with “sophisticated weapons” attacked at least two churches in Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Sunday, according to local clergy members and police.

Burkina Faso’s former transitional president and the alleged mastermind behind various coup plots in the country was arrested in neighbouring Togo and expelled, sources said on Monday.

Weeks of heavy rains in southern and central Mozambique have affected more than half-a-million people, the United Nations said on Monday.

Chad says seven of its soldiers were killed in the skirmish at the Sudanese border, with an official blaming the RSF.

Weeks of heavy rains in southern and central Mozambique have affected more than half-a-million people, the United Nations said on Monday.

Senegal’s national team arrived to a hero’s welcome at Dakar’s international airport late on Monday after winning the Africa Cup of Nations final.

The Congolese army said Monday it had retaken control of the strategic city of Uvira after the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group withdrew.

In Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, the industry is facing limbo as prices on the global market plummet, leaving workers struggling to make a living.

Poets, musicians and painters flocked to the the city of Beni for the fourth edition of the Tumaini festival. In a city scarred by violence, they are calling for peace across the whole country.

After more than two years of conflict, Sudan is facing a deepening energy crisis as the country’s oil production and refining capacity collapse. Fighting has forced the shutdown of major oil fields and refineries, leaving production severely disrupted and crippling the nation’s energy supply.

After the Sudanese army pushed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces out of Khartoum, business is slowly returning to the city’s central market. In other parts of the country, the conflict rages on.

A tragic road crash south of Johannesburg has claimed the lives of thirteen schoolchildren. Police say a minibus transporting pupils to school collided with a truck near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark, about sixty kilometers from Johannesburg.

Across western Kenya, a group of female motorcycle riders known as the Boda Girls are helping bridge a critical gap in maternal health care. Trained not only in motorcycle riding but also in basic maternal health and patient care, many of the women are nurses or community health workers.

Benin’s population voted for its next National Assembly (parliament) on 11 January. The results of the elections were announced Saturday evening: the government-affiliated parties got all seats, while the main opposition party failed to get past the 20% of district votes requirement.

South Africa has declared a national disaster over torrential rains and floods that have killed at least 30 people in the country’s north, damaged thousands of homes and washed away roads and bridges.

In Minneapolis, fear of being arrested by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has left businesses closed and shops without customers. The Somali community is particularly afraid after having repeatedly been targeted by US president Donald Trump.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is touring Sudan, meeting families displaced by the country’s ongoing conflict in his first official visit since November 2022.

The foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus were in Cairo on Sunday for talks with their Egyptian counterpart. Their discussions included the situation in Gaza and the implementation of the second phase of a US peace plan.

Severe flooding has forced the evacuation of around 600 tourists and staff from South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park, after torrential rains submerged roads and camps across the vast wildlife reserve.

Sierra Leone marked its first National Day of Remembrance on Sunday in honor of the victims of the country’s ten year civil war that killed some 120,000 people and left thousands of others mutilated and injured.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told the nation on Sunday that his landslide election victory showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the east African country for four decades.

Dakar erupted into celebration late Sunday after Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations, the second time in the last four years that the team has won the title.

Pope Leo XIV made an appeal for peace on Sunday for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Supporters of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni celebrated in Kampala on Saturday after he was declared winner of a seventh term in office. But runner-up Bobi Wine has called the results “fake.”

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was in Somalia’s Las Anod on Friday, the first visit to the provincial capital by a head of state in more than 40 years.

Junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya was sworn in Saturday as president of Guinea after he overwhelmingly won last year’s presidential election despite an earlier promise not to present himself as a candidate.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles edged the Pharaohs to secure the bronze medal, capping a strong campaign with a podium finish.

In eastern DRC, the armed group AFC/M23 says it will place the city of Uvira under the responsibility of the international community.

Egypt and Sudan welcomed on Saturday President Donald Trump’s offer to resume US mediation efforts with Ethiopia to resolve a long-running Nile River water dispute following Addis Ababa’s construction of a giant dam.

The money will help Ethiopia cover its balance of payments and budget needs, bringing total IMF disbursements under the programme to just over 2.18 billion dollars.

Thousands of people had said on social media they would to take part in marches and rallies organised by Greenlandic associations in Copenhagen, and in Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and the Greenlandic capital Nuuk.