Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has been selected as an Amujae leader by the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Leadership. ...
The Ethiopian military has seized control of the town of Wikro, 50 km (30 miles) north of the Tigrayan capital, a senior official said on Friday. T...
Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African and Horn region...
Ethiopia denied on Saturday that talks on the growing conflict in its northern Tigray region were imminent, just hours after three African former pres...
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...
Avowed multilateralists Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark will lead a World Health Organization (WHO) panel scrutinising the global response to th...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. He has been recognized for his work in bringing to an end more than 20 year...
Thousands of Liberians took to the streets of the capital, Monrovia, on Friday to protest against the corruption and economic decline that many blame ...
African migration toward Europe is both inevitable and a positive phenomenon, said Africa’s first female president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate El...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has congratulated Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde on her historic election as President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. ...
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has said even as efforts to escalate access to health services gain momentum, the issue of quality care should not be ove...
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday won the rarely awarded Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership the world's bigge...
George Weah emerged from Liberia's slums to become a superstar footballer in the 1990s, and has spent the last 13 years building political credibility...
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 soccer star George Weah has been declared the winner of Liberia's presidential election. The country's electoral commission said Thursday th...
Initial results were expected Thursday in Liberia's landmark presidential poll, the country's first democratic transfer of power in decades, pitting f...
George Weah emerged from Liberia's slums to become a superstar footballer in the 1990s, and has leveraged his status as a revered figure among the cou...
Liberia will hold a delayed presidential run-off vote on Dec. 26, the electoral commission chief said on Tuesday. Former soccer star George Weah fa...
The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely delayed a vote for Liberia's new president, over an opposition party complaint of electoral fraud, as the vic...
Liberia’s Supreme Court has halted preparations for next week’s presidential run-off between former soccer player George Weah and Vice President J...