Newscast - Africa

Borno State Senator and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Ali Ndume, says President Muhammadu Buhari should directly address the nation on the matter of insecurity, rather than issuing sta...

8 Jul 202244s

Chile’s new draft constitution has been submitted to President Gabriel Boric, after a year-long process that saw constituent assembly members debate and writes up a document to replace the country’s P...

6 Jul 202246s

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier Liu discussed economic issues including international trade and supply chains, as the Biden administration considers lowering tar...

6 Jul 202250s

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to press their offensive deeper into the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine after Moscow’s forces seized the strategic city of Lysychansk. The loss of Lys...

6 Jul 202255s

Uganda's Lawmaker has approved the adoption of Swahili as an official language. The cabinet also recommended that the teaching of Swahili in primary and secondary should be made compulsory. The Uganda...

6 Jul 202238s

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the military leader of neighbouring Sudan Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan have agreed to peacefully settle the long-running border dispute that has led to armed c...

6 Jul 202248s

Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, says the army will make way for a civilian government. He says the armed forces would not stand in the way of a democratic transition and were ...

6 Jul 202248s

The acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, Mr Michael Ohiani, says the commission intended to gazette a pipeline of 53 eligible and bankable Public-Private Partnersh...

6 Jul 20221min