Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Africa

June 25, 2026

ECOWAS hosts first meeting on Africa trade competitiveness, market access

Participants reviewed progress made since the programme’s launch on June 17, 2025, in Abuja, Nigeria.

ECOWAS
June 24, 2026

WHO raises alarm as DRC Ebola cases hit 1,094, death toll reaches 277

Mr Ghebreyesus said that it was the largest first-month caseload of any Ebola outbreak in Africa. 

Ghebreyesus
June 24, 2026

Group calls for protection of refugees, migrants, displaced persons

The advocacy group made the call in a statement on Wednesday, signed by its executive director, Okey Ezugwu, to commemorate the 2026 Refugee Week.

Okey Ezugwu
June 23, 2026

Groups urge Kenya’s parliament to pass bill to address discrimination against widows

The groups said the Bill would criminalise coercive mourning rites, widow inheritance, forced marriage, and forced removal of children.

Kenya's parliament
June 23, 2026

ActionAid faults IMF’s public spending advice to lower-income nations

Mr Larok said the IMF remained structurally unreformed and no longer fit for purpose.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
June 23, 2026

South African court allows family of Zambia’s ex-leader choose his burial site

Mr Lungu drove Zambia deeply into debt during ⁠his roughly six years in power.

Edgar Lungu
June 23, 2026

South Africans are very lazy, xenophobic; Nigerians should retaliate: Air Peace CEO

Mr Onyema said, “Let us do non-violent retaliation. I don’t want Nigerians to go to the street and attack any South Africans.”

Air Peace chairman, Allen Onyema
June 23, 2026

Over 1,000 people contract Ebola in DR Congo

Ebola has now infected more than 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an outbreak that has spread to a third displacement camp and killed an 18-month-old girl.

DR CONGO IDP CAMP
June 23, 2026

U.S. warns of possible ‘mass atrocities’ near Sudan’s El Obeid amid RSF buildup

He warned the RSF and their allied forces to avoid actions capable of endangering lives. 

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces
June 22, 2026

Ethiopian PM Abiy set for another term as party wins elections

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is set for another term as his Prosperity Party won a landslide victory in the general elections held on June 1.

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed