Africa

Local elections in the Central African Republic (CAR), which have been pending since 1988 and are slated for September, will deepen efforts to decentralize power and expand political space, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday, encouraging the new Government to “deploy all possible efforts” to calm the political climate.

As Kenyans take to social media to lament rising costs, we look at what is behind the rising cost of living.

The island nation of Madagascar is shoring up for its fourth tropical cyclone in a month, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday, as they outlined plans to help the authorities assist the most vulnerable. 

Dozens more are injured in Burkina Faso after sticks of dynamite in a market blew up, officials say.

President Buhari says the success of local rice production means prices will drop - but they haven't.

Why suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari has fallen out of favour in Nigeria.

The ex-footballer was shot dead in his taxi - a job that highlighted post-retirement challenges.

What it is like trying to do a job in a culture where women traditionally take second place to men.

Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing how different communities can work together to survive, and improve the local environment.

Motorcyclist Fehintoluwa Okegbenie jumped on her beloved motorcycle and rode through 22 states in Nigeria in just seven days.

St Paul's Cathedral invites artist Victor Ehikhamenor to respond to the looting of the Benin Bronzes.

How bags of rice will be used by grovelling Nigerian candidates to curry favour.

Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.

Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first countries on the African continent to receive the technology needed to produce game-changing mRNA vaccines, which have proved crucial to the fight against COVID-19, the head of the UN health agency said on Friday.

Situ el-Nufur, who was killed during anti-military demonstrations, has become an icon for protesters.

Reported incidents of violence against civilians fell by around 42 per cent in 2021 compared with the previous year, according to a new report released by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday.

Will France's decision to remove 5,000 personnel weaken the fight against Islamists in Africa's Sahel?

In Madagascar, child sex abuse is “widespread and tolerated” in tourist hotspots, UN-appointed rights experts said on Thursday.

With 200 million speakers there is a renewed push to make Swahili a common language for Africa.

As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”.