The founder and chairman, African Pangolin Working Group, Prof Ray Jansen, says the pangolin is at risk of extinction in 20 years at the current rate […]

Reports say, the trial of a former high-ranking Rwandan official accused of crimes of genocide is due to start in Belgium. For victims and their families, […]

Israel is set to be lashed by a rare hybrid tropical storm over the weekend that is expected to bring heavy rainfall, strong winds, and flooding […]

Reports say, voting opened on Wednesday in Botswana for the hotly-contested elections which could test the country’s traditionally stable politics, as the ruling party faces its toughest challenge […]

In a visit to South Sudan this past weekend, members of the UN Security Council urged leaders to expedite implementation of a 2018 peace agreement aimed […]

The Department of Justice has directed its staff to wear “Made in Kenya” attire on Fridays in a bid to support the manufacturing sector. In a […]

Rwanda becomes the first country in East Africa to issue a complete ban on all single-use plastics. Retailers have three months to clear their stocks and […]

Hundreds of informal schools in Kenya will be shut down after a school building collapsed in Nairobi last month, killing eight children. Officials blamed poor construction […]

Zimbabweans are experiencing severe economic hardship that has evoked memories of the hyperinflation horrors during late President Robert Mugabe’s rule, when citizens lost pensions and savings […]

Uganda is set to immunize more than 18 million children against measles and rubella, which amounts to 43% of the country’s population. According to a statement […]

Rwanda’s Mara Group launched two smartphones on Monday, describing them as the first “Made in Africa” models and giving a boost to the country’s ambitions to […]

Rwandan security forces have killed 19 people who were part of a group that carried out a deadly attack in a tourist hub in the north […]

Report says at least 20 people were killed Thursday when an unlicensed gold mine collapsed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to report, the accident […]

Report says at least twenty five Malian soldiers are dead and 60 more are missing after militants attacked two army outposts, the government said. Camps in […]

UN agencies are working with the authorities in Sudan to protect more than one million people from cholera, an infectious disease which can kill within hours […]

The tussle over Robert Mugabe’s burial took a new twist on Thursday when the government of Zimbabwe abandoned plans to inter him at a national cemetery […]

Eight newborns died in a huge fire that broke out at the maternity unit of an Algerian hospital on Tuesday, the civil defence authority said. The […]

The former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe passed away at the beginning of September. Initially, the cause of his death remained a tightly-guarded secret – as did […]

Seven primary school children died and dozens more were injured when their classroom collapsed on Monday morning in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, a government spokesman said. […]

African countries have been urged to utilize the mineral resources in their country to fast track  socio-economic development. The president, Organization of African Geological Surveys, OAGS, […]