The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year.
One in 33 people (...)
The suspension of Confederation of African Football chief Ahmad Ahmad on Monday has thrown wide open the future leadership of the regional soccer governing body, with his ban from the game coming just months before CAF's presidential (...)
In a meeting with DR Congo's Environment Minister in Cairo on Thursday, Egyptian Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Aty expressed Egypt's desire to continue negotiations with Ethiopia on the filling and operating of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance (...)
Morocco claimed a 2-0 win away over Central African Republic on Tuesday to cement their place on top of Group E with ten points.
Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech opened the scoring in the 39th minute and Olympiacos striker Youssef El Arabi wrapped up the (...)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and his Gabon team mates were forced to spend the night sleeping on the airport floor ahead of their vital Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Gambia.
Aubameyang used social media to highlight their plight after (...)
Senegal became the first country to secure its place in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations that will take place in Cameroon after claiming a 1-0 away win over Guinea Bissau on Sunday.
Liverpool winger Sadio Mane scored the winner eight minutes from (...)
Senegal maintained their 100 percent record in the Nations Cup qualifiers on Wednesday after defeating Guinea-Bissau 2-0 at home to top Group I with maximum nine points.
Liverpool winger Sadio Mane converted a penalty one minute before the break and (...)
Assailants killed at least 17 people in a raid on a village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday night, local authorities said, blaming fighters from an Islamist militia group.
The army confirmed the attack in the Buliki area of (...)
Egypt has three football clubs participating in the semi-finals of Africa's two biggest team championships. Powerhouses Ahly and Zamalek are taking part in the Champions League whereas Pyramids are in the second tier Confederation Cup.
After several (...)
Ajax Amsterdam have refused to allow four of their African internationals to travel and join up with their national teams this week because they would have to quarantine on their return to the Netherlands, the club confirmed on Wednesday.
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Africa loses $90 billion to corruption annually. The amount is equivalent to the sum industrial countries give to the continent in the form of development assistance and direct investment.
These findings were released in a United Nations Conference (...)
Markos Tekle, the new Ethiopian ambassador to Egypt, has been in Egypt for just under two months. Since arriving in the country he has visited several governorates, and immediately after being introduced as Ethiopia's ambassador the first word he (...)
The United Nations marked 1960 as the Year of Africa when 17 African countries gained independence in the largest wave to get rid of European colonialism since the 15th century.
However, none of the 17 countries were in a celebratory mood to mark 60 (...)
After six months of suspension of international games due to coronavirus pandemic, Egypt's national football team held on to their 51st position in the FIFA global football rankings, published on Thursday, 17 September.
The Pharaohs came in seventh (...)
African countries are gearing up for a return to international football next month but with many borders throughout the continent still closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic most teams are headed to Europe to play.
Cameroon are travelling to the (...)
“There is a famous saying that every Egyptian knows — Egypt is the gift of the Nile. However, the point of my book is that it goes both ways because I want to argue that the Nile is also the gift of Egypt,” says Nezar AlSayyad, author of The Nile: (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in four countries affected by conflict _ Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan _ and the lives of millions of people are in (...)
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad - a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus.
In a statement this week, (...)
Congo is seeing an upsurge in cases of the plague, as the vast Central African nation also battles outbreaks of COVID-19 and Ebola.
Since June, Congo has recorded at least 65 cases of the plague, including at least 10 deaths, in the eastern Ituri (...)
The United Nations human rights chief is calling for a quick investigation into death threats against Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege.
Michelle Bachelet on Friday said Mukwege is a ``true hero`` for his work as a human rights (...)
More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters are estimated to remain active in Iraq and Syria two years after the militant group's defeat, and their attacks have significantly increased this year, the U.N. counter-terrorism chief said Monday.
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Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute war crimes.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a (...)
The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy.
``Are you Charisse Davis?'' the fourth grader asked.
Davis was stunned. A former kindergarten teacher and librarian, she was more accustomed to shuttling her two sons to basketball practice than (...)
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a ``serious funding gap'' to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The $1.75 million raised so far will only last for a few (...)
Egypt said on Monday that the talks brokered by the African Union (AU) between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had ended without an agreement.
At the end of 10 days of negotiations differences between (...)
