South Africa further cemented themselves as the world’s best team with a 3-1 victory over New Zealand in the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series. After losing the opening Test in Johannesburg, the world champions won three straight games, comfortably claiming the…
Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, once the world’s youngest reigning monarch, was buried on Saturday, days after a row broke out over who would succeed him. Oyo, 34, who had ruled the traditional kingdom of Tooro in…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Guinea’s President Mamady Doumbouya, arrived in Abidjan on Friday for talks with his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara. During a meeting on Sunday, the two leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation in a number of areas, including…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Shares in Africa’s largest oil refinery went on sale on Monday with the initial public offering (IPO) of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals. The sale is expected to be the continent’s biggest ever IPO. Owner…
South African police are handing over six Nigerians wanted in the US for alleged online romance scams to FBI agents later on Friday. The group is accused of targeting over 100 women in the US and defrauding them of more…
Nigeria’s National Assembly has suspended official visits to South Africa and withdrawn from legislative programmes organised by South African authorities. This is the clearest indication yet that frustration over recurring attacks and anti-immigrant hostility affecting Nigerians has moved beyond diplomatic…
The arrival of American military equipment in Nigeria over the weekend is the latest sign that security cooperation between Abuja and Washington is becoming deeper, more operational and potentially more consequential. The delivery was made aboard a United States Air…
By Africanews with AP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi called for de-escalation of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East at a press conference on Tuesday held by him, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “I…
By Rédaction Africanews Generative AI is increasingly used for information warfare in Mali, according to a study released Wednesday, with the conflict’s factions mastering the technology to varying degrees. The analysis by the Timbuktu Institute, a Dakar-based think tank, found…
By Rédaction Africanews The UN Security Council on Tuesday hailed an agreement reached by Libya’s rival political groups that paves the way for elections to be held within two years. The UN-backed deal, signed in the capital Tripoli on August…
