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Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traoré: 'No more red tape'
Posted on Monday October 03, 2022

Capt Ibrahim Traoré wants fast solutions to big problems, which some fear signals a turn to Russia.

One Kenyan woman's journey for the father she has never known
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

BBC Africa Eye goes on a journey with a woman in Kenya, searching for the father she has never known.

London Marathon 2022: Amos Kipruto and Yalemzerf Yehualaw win first titles in elite races
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

Kenya's Amos Kipruto and Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw win their maiden London Marathon titles with breakaway victories in the elite men's and women's races.

Equatorial Guinea seeks to block sale of confiscated Paris mansion
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

The luxury mansion was seized after Equatorial Guinea's vice-president was convicted of embezzling money.

Zimbabwe's treasure trove of lost radical art on display in Harare
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

Paintings by black Zimbabwean artists, recovered in storage in London, go in show at home after 70 years.

Tunisia cost-of-living crisis: 'My husband either reaches Europe or dies at sea'
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

Life is getting so hard in Tunisia that increasing numbers are ready to risk their lives to reach Europe.

What is Ebola and why is Uganda's outbreak so serious?
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

It is proving more difficult to deal with as vaccines are not available for a rare strain of the virus.

Africa's week in pictures: 23-29 September 2022
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

Ethiopia's Tigray war: Satellite images capture troop build-up near Eritrea border
Posted on Thursday September 29, 2022

Soldiers and heavy weapons are being moved in the northern Tigray region, near the border with Eritrea.

Somalia drought: Are US terror laws hampering aid effort?
Posted on Tuesday September 27, 2022

Aid groups say they cannot get crucial supplies to those at risk of famine due to US sanctions.

"It put my life in great jeopardy" - the Tanzanian tackling a taboo
Posted on Tuesday September 27, 2022

Magdalena Moshi, Tanzania's first Olympic swimmer, calls for an end to the culture-induced silence around reproductive health issues in her country.

Nigeria's Biyi Bandele: A storyteller to his bones
Posted on Sunday September 25, 2022

Biyi Bandele, whose film has premiered after his death, was a huge figure in British and Africa writing.

Afrobeats: Chart show host celebrates 'beautiful year' for genre
Posted on Sunday September 25, 2022

Radio host Eddie Kadi says stars like Burna Boy have propelled the genre into the mainstream.

'Africa's Titanic': Remembering Senegal's Joola tragedy
Posted on Sunday September 25, 2022

The capsizing of the Joola, a government-owned Senegalese ferry, took more lives than the infamous Titanic.

Mr JazziQ: I didn’t choose amapiano, amapiano chose me
Posted on Saturday September 24, 2022

The South African musician talks about the development of the genre and his own music.

Africa Eye: One man's search for a new life in Europe
Posted on Thursday September 22, 2022

Africa Eye investigates the struggles facing illegal migrants between Nigeria and Europe.

Zambia President Hichilema on IMF and repealing the insult law
Posted on Thursday September 22, 2022

Zambia's President Hichilema has pledged to repeal the colonial era insult law often used to silence critics.

The Ugandan women turning elephant dung to household items
Posted on Wednesday September 21, 2022

A group of widows from Uganda's Bushenyi district are finding good use for the elephant dung they collect.

Disabled Nigerian vlogger 'I'm destined for something great'
Posted on Wednesday September 21, 2022

Ahmed Salami posts daily vlogs about living with autism, cerebral palsy and ADHD.

Posted on Thursday January 01, 1970

News24.com | Burkina Faso president agrees to step down: religious mediators
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

News24.com | Mosquito vector spreads to 5 African countries
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

The Annopheles stephensi mosquito species, considered to be an Asian and Arabian Peninsula malaria vector, has spread to at least five African countries in the past decade, according to the World Health Organisation.

News24.com | New R3m-a-cabin Swedish airships may head to Africa
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

Sweden-based OceanSky Cruises is betting millions that pretty soon, travellers will be lining up for the chance to take a leisurely journey through the air—where being in transit is the point, rather than a hurdle between where you are and where you want to go.

News24.com | WATCH | All the latest news videos from around Africa
Posted on Tuesday September 27, 2022

Watch all the latest news videos from around Africa

News24.com | Chad to further postpone transition to democracy, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno to remain in charge
Posted on Sunday October 02, 2022

Chad has extended the transition period to democratic elections, while keeping the head of the military junta on as head of state in the interim.

News24.com | Equatorial Guinea takes France mansion row back to UN court
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

Equatorial Guinea has reopened a bitter battle with France at the UN's top court over a confiscated Paris mansion and other assets, the International Court of Justice said.

News24.com | Somaliland lawmakers vote to extend president's term by two years
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

Lawmakers in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland have extended President Muse Bihi Abdi's current term of office by two years ahead of its expiry in November, the senate chairman said on Saturday.

News24.com | Namibia sounds alarm as shared rivers dry up
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

Namibia's water, energy, and food security are under threat because its main rivers have run dry amid a drought, and its upstream neighbours are diverting supplies.

News24.com | African Union condemns latest Burkina Faso coup
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

The African Union on Saturday condemned the "unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina Faso, a day after the second coup this year in the deeply poor and restive West African country.

News24.com | Burkina Faso faces fresh uncertainty after latest coup
Posted on Saturday October 01, 2022

Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.

News24.com | Uganda rules out possible lockdown as Ebola death toll hits 7
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.

News24.com | Zim wants mining companies to pay half of royalties in gems and precious metals
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

Zimbabwe wants gold, diamond and platinum miners to pay half of their royalties to the government in the commodities themselves and the rest in cash, as the southern African country seeks to build its mineral reserves.

News24.com | Heavy gunfire in Burkina Faso capital, soldiers on streets
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said.

News24.com | Botswana turns 56: From one of the poorest countries to an upper middle-income economy
Posted on Friday September 30, 2022

Botswana celebrates 56 years of independence on Friday. Despite one party dominating the political landscape since independence, Botswana has been a model democracy in southern Africa.

News24.com | Celebrated Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga gets suspended sentence over protest for reform
Posted on Thursday September 29, 2022

A Zimbabwe court Thursday found award-winning novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga guilty of "inciting violence" after she held up a sign calling for reform at a small protest during the coronavirus pandemic.

News24.com | Both Tigrayan and Ethiopian government forces committed gross human rights violations - report
Posted on Thursday September 29, 2022

The recently released International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia report shows that both Tigrayan and Ethiopian Defence Forces fighting against each other were responsible for gross human rights violations.

News24.com | Rhino poaching rises in Namibia as population falls in South Africa
Posted on Thursday September 29, 2022

Rhino poaching in Namibia is picking up, and officials suspect international syndicates are shifting their focus from South Africa.

News24.com | US calls for Eritrea to withdraw soldiers in Tigray, Ethiopia
Posted on Wednesday September 28, 2022

The US blames Eritrea for playing a central role in the resumption of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and called for Eritreans to "withdraw to their borders immediately".

News24.com | East African Court of Justice to rule on whether Tanzanian govt can kick Maasai off their land
Posted on Wednesday September 28, 2022

The East African Court of Justice will hand down a ruling in a case where the Tanzanian government is being sued by the Maasai people over it's plan to relocate them from their ancestral land in order to create a wildlife corridor for trophy hunting and elite tourism.

News24.com | At least 22 killed in two DRC helicopter crashes, Congo army says
Posted on Wednesday September 28, 2022

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congo army spokesman who asked not to be named told Reuters on Wednesday.