52 people have died over the weekend in a renewed outbreak of violence in eastern DRC, where government forces and Rwandan-backed rebels have been fighting since early January.

Algeria has instructed 12 French officials to leave the country within 48 hours, as stated by the French foreign minister on Monday.

The last election in 2022 followed the 4.5 clan-based system, which allocated equal parliamentary shares to four major clans and a half-share to minority groups. Somalia has not held direct elections since 1967.

In September, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said it was concerned about the looting of the museum, whose restoration was organized with the UN agency and funded by Italy since 2019.

The African Union announced on Sunday that it had named Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo, as new mediator in the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC. Gnassingbé will take over from his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenço, who stepped down from the role last month.

Gabon’s Coup Leader Brice Oligui Nguema Wins Presidential Election in Landslide Victory

Brice Oligui Nguema, the leader of Gabon’s transitional government and the military figure behind the August 2023 coup that ousted the Bongo dynasty, has won the presidential election with 90.35% of the vote, according to provisional results announced on Sunday by the Ministry of the Interior

The director of Gaza’s health ministry condemned Israel’s airstrike on a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday that forced patients to evacuate. The pre-dawn strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City – also known as Baptist hospital – after Israel issued an evacuation warning, according to the heal

10.3 million metric tons of food in South Africa goes to waste each year according to the UN and much of it ends up in landfills adding to the country’s environmental problems. A growing number of chefs recognise this and are trying to create sustainable businesses.

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. But conservationists in Africa are trying to change that. They’ve launched an effort to save endangered vultures by trying to put a dollar figure on their incredible value.

Tanzania’s main opposition party, CHADEMA, has been disqualified from the upcoming elections, a senior election official confirmed on Saturday.

Dozens of displaced Sudanese arrived in Tawila, North Darfur, on Saturday following attacks by the country’s notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces.

The majority of polls closed in the oil-rich Gabon on Saturday in a presidential election that the country’s military rulers hoped would legitimize their grip on power.

Palestinian families in Gaza City have once again been displaced uncertain where to go after the Israeli army issued orders on Friday to evacuate areas in the east of the city ahead of military operations targeting Hamas.

Voters in the oil-rich Gabon headed to the polls on Saturday in a presidential election that the country’s military rulers hoped would legitimize their grip on power.

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of thousands were deprived of protection.

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are not already accounted for, making it effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.

A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl.

Exhausted, some people expressed frustration over the slow process, while others—like Rosa Eridania Reyes, who was waiting for the body of the father of her two children and a security guard at the Jet Set Disco—voiced anger, demanding accountability.

Large groups of Palestinians gathered for hours in a playground in central Gaza, eagerly awaiting food distributed by a charity kitchen on Friday.

Foreign ministers from the Gaza contact group emphasized the need for a lasting ceasefire and opposed the displacement of Palestinians from their homes on Friday.

The Herds project launched in Congo to highlight the climate crisis

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for stronger cooperation between his country and the European Union to resist ”bullying”

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative.

In eastern Chad, UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi visited displaced Sudanese families seeking safety across the border

Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day’s news.

Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, was in Philadelphia on Thursday, continuing his journey through the 11 cities that will host the FIFA Club World Cup this summer.

Tensions escalated in Nakuru on Thursday morning when students from Butere Girls High School stormed out, demanding the release of the play’s scriptwriter, Cleophas Malala, who police had detained.

The makeshift camps, located on privately owned land, have long been the site of violent altercations between migrants and Tunisians from nearby El Amra and Jebeniana, two towns located north of Sfax, Tunisia’s second largest city.

Is Ethiopia at war again? A look at the rebellion in one of its most powerful regions.

The woman who was not identified by name in the lawsuit sais she began working for the rapper in 2018 as a cleaner before the two started a romantic relationship which resulted into rape and abuse

Mohamed Salah has signed a new two-year contract with Liverpool, ending months of speculation over his future and keeping the Egyptian star at Anfield until 2027

Kylian Mbappé’s legal team is making aggressive moves to resolve the dispute surrounding a claim of €55 million in unpaid wages from PSG.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been charged with treason, a day after he was arrested at a public rally

Panama has rejected Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth’s idea of US bases on its soil

Officials are scrambing to identify victims of Dominican club roof collapse that killed at least 221 people

Ten Palestinians taken from Gaza by Israeli soldiers were released and brought back to the territory on Thursday, where they revealed that they had experienced continuous abuse while in detention.

The death toll from a devastating roof collapse at the iconic Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic has risen to 218

Badr Abdelatty gave his remarks after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto in Cairo

The government of Zimbabwe has announced an initial compensation of US$3 million for white farmers whose properties were taken under a contentious government initiative over twenty years ago.