Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday morning sworn in as the sixth President of the United Republic of Tanzania following the death of President John Pom...
Oballa Oballa’s trek to election day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killin...
Raychelle Omamo and Sylvia Mulinge are among 100 most influential women in Africa in 2020. Omamo is Kenya's Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary and M...
By Yemisi Adegoke Just under four months after Africa recorded its first coronavirus case, the number of confirmed cases has reached more than 250,...
As Burundi enters a period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died Monday, his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic is being scrut...
Isaac Swila The budding dream of Kenya’s soccer star MacDonald Mariga of following into the footsteps of Senator Chris Obure of leaping from the fo...
Isaac Swila The last two weeks have been bedecked by political noise - lot’s of it. Interestingly, the political brouhaha has mainly been direct...
It's now official. Kenya's football star MacDonald Mariga has finally come out of the woods to declare his interest in politics. 'Big Mac' as he is...
Uganda plans to repatriate the two patients with Ebola to Congo, saying they can get better treatment in specialized facilities there. Three more f...
Thousands of Liberians took to the streets of the capital, Monrovia, on Friday to protest against the corruption and economic decline that many blame ...
Dozens of Congolese Ebola survivors are dispelling rumors and caring for patients and lone children in the world’s second deadliest outbreak, health...
When medics tried to reach Ebola patients in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a recent surge in violence, they were blocked by...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has congratulated Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde on her historic election as President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. ...
Liberia president and former World Footballer of the Year George Weah made a surprise return to international competition in Monrovia on Tuesday, play...
Women are makers and builders of nations. In Germany to date, there is a group called the Trümmerfrauen, the rubble women. These women are the ones...
Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger on Thursday arrived in Liberia to a heroic reception, where he will be presented with the country's highest honour b...
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday won the rarely awarded Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership the world's bigge...
Arsene Wenger has compared the life of George Weah to a film script following his former player's election as president of Liberia. Weah, who playe...
Former Chelsea star Didier Drogba led plaudits on Friday from the world of football to George Weah after the only African to win the Ballon d'Or was e...
Former soccer star George Weah has been declared the winner of Liberia's presidential election. The country's electoral commission said Thursday th...