A specialised police unit in Port-au-Prince came under attack on Monday as it patrolled the streets of the Haitian capital.

Sadio Mané persuaded teammates to come back and finish the game after they’d stormed off the pitch in protest against a penalty decision.

As global tourism hits a record high, Africa saw an 8 percent rise in arrivals in 2025 to 81 million, with Morocco and Tunisia posting particularly strong results.

The United Nations says floods in Mozambique have spiralled into a rapidly escalating emergency.

Wildfires burning in Franschhoek, east of Cape Town flared up on Tuesday, leaving fire crews scrambling to contain the blaze once again.

Desperately-needed humanitarian aid has arrived in Port Sudan as the fighting in the country rages on. The war, which broke out in 2023, has triggered what the U.N describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba has been extradited by Togo to his home country, Burkina Faso, where he’s accused by the junta of plotting a string of coups and assassination attempts.

Following their victory over Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal’s Teranga Lions held a victory parade in the capital Dakar, drawing tens of thousands of fans.

It has undone decades of progress, notably in fighting HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis.

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.