Nigerian celebrity chef Hilda Baci has added another culinary milestone to her record-breaking career, cooking what is believed to be the world’s largest pot of jollof rice.

Judges in the war crimes trial of former DRC president Joseph Kabila on Friday delayed their verdict in the case to consider new evidence.

From street party’s to sombre vigils, Brazil’s top court ruling against former president Jair Bolsonaro drew various reactions across Brazilian cities on Friday.

The UN’s top court has rejected a request by Equatorial Guinea to force the return of a Paris mansion seized by France as part of a corruption investigation into the son of the African nation’s president.

The United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have put forward a proposal for a three-month humanitarian truce in Sudan, followed by a permanent ceasefire.

A motorized boat capsized in northwestern Congo’s Equateur Province, killing at least 86 people, state media reported Friday

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir announced Thursday that he suspended Riek Machar as the country’s first vice president, effectively ending the transitional government of unity that forestalled a return to full-blown war

Speculation was rife in Benin that Yayi, who served as president between 2006 and 2016 was considering a run for the presidency

Health officials in Congo are doing their best to overcome a string of challenges, including a lack of funding, as they try to quell the latst ebola outbreak in the region. U.S. funding cuts have been a major concern.

Kirk was killed by a single shot in what police said was a targeted attack and Utah’s governor called a political assassination

In rural Malawi, farmers have been embracing new technology to increase their yields. Some 180,000 residents have been using an AI chat bot, which is backed by the government.

“Africa must not only adapt. It has to lead,” United Nations Global Compact chief Sanda Ojiambo.

Burkina Faso’s authorities have taken a step towards making the country more accessible for international travellers, abolishing fees for visas for all African citizens on 11 September.

The World Dolls museum, officially named the “Poupées Du Monde” in French, is home to roughly 2,500 dolls

The grieving families of those killed during violent protests in Nepal gathered in Kathmandu on Thursday, lighting candles outside a hospital morgue and demanding justice and information about missing relatives.

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices found Bolsonaro guilty on five counts related to his attempt to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

Opponents of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro celebrated across Brasília on Thursday night after the Supreme Court sentenced him to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has accused Kenya of non-compliance. If Kenya’ anti-doping agency fails to address irregularities, it risks repercussions, including losing financial backing from WADA.

The Trump administration said last week it would send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national, to the African kingdom.

The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods remained at large more than 24 hours later Thursday as federal investigators appealed for the public’s help by releasing photos of the person they believe is responsible.

Police officers killed the anti-apartheid activist while he was in detention in 1977.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has overturned a law considered a “colonial import”, which previously barred men from taking their wives’ surnames after marriage.

Students from the University of the Philippines walked out of classes on Friday to protest against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s government, calling for transparency and accountability.

The long-standing issue of the Chagos Islands has taken a significant turn this week, as the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill supporting the retrocession of the archipelago to Mauritius.

Clashes broke out in Quito on Thursday as protesters rallied against President Daniel Noboa’s government, demanding his resignation over job cuts and wage reduction policies.

The Italian branch is expected to depart Syracuse join the main flotilla group, which left Barcelona and is currently in Tunisia, in its attempt to break the blockade and deliver aid to the embattled enclave.

The number of suspected Ebola cases in Congo’s southern Kasai province have more than doubled in a week since a new outbreak was confirmed there, Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday.

South Sudan First Vice President Riek Machar faces charges of treason and other serious crimes, local justice authorities said Thursday, as fears grow that the east African country could be edging toward a return to civil war

Presidents Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016) and Pedro Castillo (2021-2022) are Barbadillo’s current dwellers. In total, five former leaders have spent time at the facility

The single is a duet between Scott and Houston, a balladic reinterpretation of the timeless “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),” using Houston’s original vocal stems

Since the start of the year, more than 30 South Sudanese aid workers have been abducted, humanitarian officials say – more than double the number kidnapped in all of 2024. The worrying trend could make humanitarian work impossible in a country facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Most of those killed were in Sanaa, the capital, where a military headquarters and a fuel station were hit, the health ministry said

Cologne Zoo has just introduced to the world a giant anteater cub that was born on the 28th of August.

Nepal’s army briefly lifted a curfew in Kathmandu on Thursday as it tried to reassert control following two days of violent anti-government protests that left 30 dead.

Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday.

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African leaders wrapped up the second Africa Climate Summit in Ethiopia’s capital on Wednesday with a pledge to accelerate investment in renewable energy

Big Tech Africa welcomed about 200 exhibitors over a three-day forum concluding Thursday.

In the past few months, Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 29 people who created content for social media, accusing them of “indecency” and “undermining family values”.

After Russian drones violated Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine, fears are mounting that the war could spill over into neighbouring countries.