By Rédaction Africanews with AP In a retaliatory move, Iran on Sunday declared the armies of European Union countries as “terrorist groups”. The announcement comes days after the EU foreign ministers agreed to add Tehran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp…
By Rédaction Africanews with agencies Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has reaffirmed his commitment to inclusive and peaceful dialogue between all people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a New Year’s address to the diplomatic corps in Kinshasa on Saturday,…
By Rédaction Africanews with Malaika Élysée In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, traffic is slowly resuming on Lake Tanganyika after the government authorised movement once again. Transport on the lake was suspended for more than a month…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Egypt’s President Sisi welcomed Jordan’s King Abdullah to Cairo on Sunday for talks on restoring stability to the Middle East region. The two leaders reiterated their opposition to “any attempts to displace the Palestinian people…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies A commercial flight has landed at Khartoum airport for only the second time since Sudan’s civil war broke out almost three years ago. The domestic flight operated by the national flag carrier SUDANAIR took off…
By Dominic Wabwireh with AP In the forests of Ethiopia’s largest region, a shadow war grinds on. Hunted by government drones, Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) commander Jaal Marroo denies his fighters target civilians. Yet, as a hidden humanitarian crisis deepens,…
By Rédaction Africanews and AP The so-called Islamic State released new video on Sunday said to show its attack on an air force base in Niger’s capital Niamey. The footage was aired by the Amaq News Agency, part of the…
South Africa’s Zulu king has raised eyebrows by using a highly derogatory term for foreigners and saying they must all leave the country during a much-hyped speech that was supposed to have been aimed at calming anti-migrant feelings in his…
A Kenyan family is seeking answers and support to repatriate the body of their 29-year-old relative, who was killed in Ukraine while fighting for Russia. Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, 29, initially left Kenya for a job in Qatar in 2024, and…
Sustained heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been heard in Niger near the international airport outside the capital, Niamey. Multiple eyewitness accounts and videos showed air defence systems apparently engaging unidentified projectiles in the early hours of Thursday. The situation…
