The country is consistently ranked by international organisations as being among the top regions at risk during El Niño cycles.

Niger on Tuesday condemned the expulsion of two of its security agents from France, calling it a “serious and unacceptable act of ingratitude.”

The country is consistently ranked by international organisations as being among the top regions at risk during El Niño cycles.

Almost 2 million Somali children between the ages of 6 months and almost 5 will be suffering from acute malnutrition by June, analysts predict. Many are internally displaced people who lack access to basic services.

Albania’s capital, Tirana, saw violent clashes between student protesters and police on Tuesday, 13 October, as demonstrations continued overnight into Wednesday.

South African jurist, Navi Pillay, was honoured for her lifelong commitment to human rights, justice, and accountability.

Residents of Mauritius were under curfew on Tuesday night in response to rare violent protests after a police officer shot and seriously injured a woman.

Heavy rain, hail and thunderstorms flooded Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday, 13 October, disrupting transport and leaving over 36,000 electricity customers without power. Chile’s disaster agency, Senapred, declared a red alert across the Metropolitan Region.

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least three people, injured 22 and damaged homes and power plants, leaving over 600,000 without electricity.

In the Kenyan border town of Busia, authorities are stepping up screening for people entering the country from Uganda. Earlier this month, Kenya reported its first ever death from Ebola. The victim had just returned from DR Congo via Uganda and that’s making people nervous.

Dubbed the “Suez Canal on Rails”, the line connects Red Sea ports directly to Mediterranean export terminals. Once fully operational, it is expected to carry up to 13 million tonnes of freight each year, allowing cargo to be transferred across Egypt by rail and helping bypass maritime bottlenecks.

Heavy rains flooded the streets of Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday, submerging vehicles and killing a bank employee, according to his employer.

The worst Ebola outbreak ever in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the 9,000-case mark, with the number of deaths exceeding 4,000 since early October, health authorities said Tuesday.

Pope Leo XVI had a cancerous tumor removed from his right lung on Tuesday, the Vatican has confirmed. The operation at Rome’s Gemelli hospital was successful and without complication, the Vatican said.

Spain’s King Felipe VI has called for “good neighbourly relations” with Morocco during a landmark visit to Ceuta, as tensions over migration continue to test relations between the two neighbours and highlight the human cost of Europe’s borders

Formula One on Tuesday announced its upcoming return to Africa with a Grand Prix in Rwanda expected in the early 2030s, a first since 1993.

Climate activists on Tuesday picketed outside the African Energy Week conference, in the South African city of Cape Town, calling for an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent.

Africa has recorded the world’s fastest improvements in disaster resilience, a new major global study has revealed.

Niger authorities said Monday that a huge blowout of oil and gas in the country’s eastern desert last month has caused an environmental incident of “exceptional severity”.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia received a rapturous welcome in Ceuta on Tuesday, 13 October, as they began their first visit to the Spanish North African territory since 2007.

Mauritius, Seychelles and Botswana are the most capitalist countries in Africa, according to the Global Capitalism Index, a new ranking published by researchers affiliated with the University of Virginia.

Kazakhstan hosted its first Open Asian Falconry Cup on 9 and 10 October in Bozanbay, a village in the country’s east, bringing together 176 falconers from 10 countries.

Moroccan Prime Minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, the leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, announced on Monday the formation of a coalition with the Istiqlal Party, the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and the Party of Progress and Socialism.

Pix of the Day, 13 October, 2026 – Across the world

As the International Monetary Fund prepares to release its flagship World Economic Outlook in Bangkok on Tuesday, the headline message is one of stability. But behind the forecasts, a fierce debate is unfolding over Africa’s debt burden, austerity measures and the rising cost for ordinary citizens.

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday ordered a probe into an airstrike that killed 72 people near the Egyptian border. Rights group Emergency Lawyers accused Egypt of carrying out the strike.

Namibia’s foot-and-mouth outbreak has spread to a second region, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed. First detected in the southern Kharas region, the disease has now been found in Zambezi.

Residents of Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, say life is returning to normal after federal forces retook control of the city, which has been seized by Tigray rebels.

At least three people were killed and 37 injured in Kharkiv as Russia launched repeated aerial attacks on the north-eastern Ukrainian city on Monday and overnight. Strikes also caused damage near Lviv, in western Ukraine.

Residents of Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, say life is returning to normal after federal forces retook control of the city, which has been seized by Tigray rebels.

An Ethiopian Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv was forced to turn around mid-air because one of its pilots was Indonesian, Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reported on Monday.

At least five people were killed and more than 30 injured when the Rehman Baba Express derailed near Multan, Pakistan, early on Tuesday, 13 October. An investigation has been launched into the cause of the accident.

Somali-born Sagal Abdi-Wali has been sworn in as MP for Holborn and St Pancras in the British House of Commons. Abdi-Wali won last week’s by-election for the central London constituency with 45 percent of the vote, beating Green Party leader Zack Polanski who secured about 33 percent.

Ceuta braces for a symbolic royal visit by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia after a mass migration crisis strained the enclave’s social cohesion.

Clashes near Brussels-Midi station leave around ten arrested, including nine minors, as student and anti-austerity protests continue in Belgium.

Congo’s former president, Joseph Kabila, is taking the helm of a new political-military platform: the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, or FRN. Announced on Monday in Goma, eastern DRC, the coalition brings together key figures from the AFC/M23 anti-government forces.

Aliko Dangote’s Nigerian oil refinery is extending the deadline for its initial public offering in order to broaden participation, its owner said Monday. The IPO, set to be Africa’s largest capital market operation, was due to close on Tuesday but it will now be extended for two weeks.

France’s far-right leader Jordan Bardella begins a two-day visit to Spain with a stop in Ceuta, where a mass migrant influx reignited debate over immigration.

South Africa’s suspended deputy police chief, Shadrack Sibiya, has resigned amid corruption allegations and charges involving alleged sexual offenses.

Spain’s National Day on Monday, 12 October, was marked by demonstrations in Barcelona in support of Spanish unity, while far-right leader Santiago Abascal visited Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the North African coast.