Seven election workers were killed during Niger's presidential vote on Sunday when their vehicle struck a landmine, a local official said, marring a day meant to usher in the country's first democratic transition of power.
The West African country (...)
Niger began voting on Sunday in the second round of a presidential election that is expected to usher in the first democratic transition of power since the West African nation gained independence from France in 1960.
Ruling party candidate Mohamed (...)
All times are Cairo time (GMT+2)
Saturday 20 February
AS Kigali (Rwanda) 1-1 CS Sfaxien (Tunisia)
Scorers: Abubakar Lawal 44 / Firas Chaouat 60
Sunday 14 February
15:00 US Monastir (Tunisia) v Raja Club Athletic (Morocco)
15:00 Napsa Stars FC (...)
Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's north-central Niger State early Wednesday, killing at least one student and abducting more than 40 people including students and teachers, according to officials.
The gunmen, thought to be bandits, fatally shot (...)
The UK Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater.
Senior judges said there was an (...)
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will serve a second term as chairman of sub-regional bloc the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a release said Thursday.
The press statement said the decision, which came by consensus (...)
According to a 2020 Global Terrorism Index report, Africa has become “the centre of gravity” for the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda, losing no less than $171 billion to terrorism in the last 10 years. Terrorist groups have moved there and to some (...)
The draw of the 2020/21 Total CAF Confederation Cup Additional 2nd Preliminary Round kicks off at 12:00 GMT (14:00 Cairo Local Time).
Enyimba FC (Nigeria) vs. Bloemfontein Celtic / Rivers UTD
FC Platinum (Zimbabwe) vs. ASC Jaraaf (Senegal)
Raja CA (...)
In his final days in office, Barack Obama sought a UN Security Council resolution to pressure Israel to stop building settlements. Donald Trump, by contrast, is working as fast as he can to finalise controversial normalisation deals between Israel (...)
Twenty people, mostly African nationals, died on Thursday when a vehicle carrying them overturned in southern Algeria, the civil protection agency said.
Eleven people aboard the vehicle were also injured in the accident near Ain Mguel town in the (...)
Ahly are expected to seal smooth progress to the African Champions League group stage as they kick off the defence of their crown with an away game at Niger's Sonidep in the first leg of the competition's round of 32 on Wednesday.
Sonidep are making (...)
When Abdullah boarded an inflatable boat crammed with fellow migrants in February he thought he would finally reach Europe after braving the dangers of a Sahara crossing and Libya's civil war.
The 27-year-old from Niger knew the voyage ahead was (...)
Egypt "renews its commitment" to providing all forms of support to fellow African countries in order to ensure the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), according to Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly
Madbouly made the (...)
“Africa doesn't need strongmen; it needs strong institutions. Nobody should be president for life. Your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas.”
A strong warning issued by former US president Barack Obama 11 years ago during his (...)
An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday morning, three security sources and a local official told Reuters.
The details of the kidnapping were not immediately clear, and no one (...)
Mali's military rulers face a regional deadline for naming a civilian interim leader Tuesday, as the junta meet with West Africa leaders who maintain that new elections must be held within a year.
The 15-nation regional bloc known as ECOWAS had (...)
In Libya, which is customarily treated one-dimensionally as a case of sharp polarisation between the eastern and western parts of the country (a reductionism that is perhaps intentional on the part of some stakeholders), the south has reared its (...)
More than 80 African migrants have been rescued after being found in a remote stretch of the Sahara Desert where hundreds of others have died along the perilous journey in recent years, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.
The (...)
Corruption, protests against the results of the legislative elections in March, the stalled 2015 peace agreement with the Azawadi Liberation Movement in the north, the mounting terrorist threat, tribal disputes and economic straits are said to be (...)
France has never been absent from the Middle East theatre since the Napoleonic campaigns and the ill-fated invasion of Egypt and Syria by France between 1798 and 1801. For the two centuries that have followed France has remained a major player (...)
More than 80 African migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert after they were robbed and left to die by people they had paid to smuggle them to Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday, citing survivors.
Drivers abandoned four (...)
حذر مرصد الأزهر من تنامي أنشطة الجماعات المسلحة وخاصة تنظيم داعش الإرهابي والتي تؤدي إلى زعزعة الاستقرار، وأشار المرصد في بيان عبر صفحته الرسمية علي موقع الفيسبوك، إلى أن توحيد الجماعات التابعة لتنظيم "داعش الإرهابي" في غرب إفريقيا قد يؤدي إلى فتح (...)
Nigeria's government plans to deliver humanitarian aid supplies by air to people in remote communities in parts of the northeast that have been ravaged by the decade-long Islamist insurgency spearheaded by Boko Haram.
The insurgency, which since (...)
أدان مرصد الأزهر مقتل ما يقرب من 17 شخصًا وإصابة آخرين في هجوم مسلح بإقليم "Niger" بنيجيريا، وذلك بحسب تقارير إعلامية وطنية؛ حيث قام المسلحون بإطلاق النار على المدنيين باستخدام دراجات نارية.
وحذر مرصد الأزهر من تنامي أنشطة الجماعات المسلحة وخاصة (...)
أدان مرصد الأزهر لمكافحة التطرف، مقتل ما يقرب من 17 شخصًا وإصابة آخرين في هجوم مسلح بإقليم "Niger" بنيجيريا، وذلك بحسب تقارير إعلامية وطنية؛ حيث قام المسلحون بإطلاق النار على المدنيين باستخدام دراجات نارية.
هذا ويحذر مرصد الأزهر من تنامي أنشطة (...)
