By Dominic Wabwireh with AP French President Emmanuel Macron has reaffirmed that Africa should lead the response to its own political and security crises, speaking in Addis Ababa after a trilateral meeting with African Union Commission chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Rwanda’s former first lady Agathe Habyarimana will appeal last week’s court ruling that overturned a 2025 decision to dismiss an investigation into her role in the 1994 genocide. The killing spree was triggered by the assassination of…
A conference on financing the African Union’s peace efforts will be held in Paris by the end of this year, French President Emmanuel Macron said while on a visit to Ethiopia. Macron has been in Africa on a five-day visit…
By Africanews with AFP Georgetown, one of present-day Washington’s most expensive neighborhoods, used to be a hub of Black life in the US capital. Little remains of this history since gentrification began in the 1930s, but remnants of its African…
By Rédaction Africanews Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that M23 rebels and Rwandan forces carried out a brutal month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, marked by summary executions, rape and enforced disappearances. In a…
By Rédaction Africanews The body of the second of two US soldiers reported missing during an international training exercise in Morocco has been recovered, the US Army said Wednesday. The pair disappeared near a cliff on the Atlantic coast while…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP After much pomp and ceremony, bilateral talks in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his United States counterpart Donald Trump got underway on Thursday afternoon. Xi had greeted Trump with a red carpet welcome…
By Rédaction Africanews The United States has announced it will waive a proposed $15,000 (£11,000) visa deposit for football fans from 50 countries travelling to the 2026 World Cup, provided they hold valid match tickets. Five African nations affected by…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP Foreign ministers from the BRICS group of emerging economies began a two-day meeting in the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Thursday. The gathering comes as the expanding bloc faces divisions over the war in Iran,…
The Confederation of African Football is addressing the “deficiencies” which contributed to the chaotic finale of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, according to the organisation’s president Patrice Motsepe. Senegal were crowned winners on the night, following a 1-0…
