The mayor of Mogadishu on Thursday ordered bars, restaurants and hotels along the city's Lido beachfront to close at midnight after complaints from religious leaders. In response to several complaints from society, notably religious leaders, the administration orders restaurants and hotels along the Lido beach to close after midnight, Mayor Ab ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition parties agreed on Thursday to name a single unity candidate by mid-November to run against President Joseph Kabila's choice in December elections. Tensions are running high before the long-delayed December 23 vote to chose a successor to Kabila, who bowed to international pressure this year to step a ...

A portrait made by algorithm smashed new boundaries Thursday, selling for $432,500 and becoming the first piece of Artificial Intelligence art sold at a major auction house, Christie's said. At first glance, Edmond de Belamy, the portrait of a gentleman dressed in black and framed in gold, could be any standard portrait from the 18th or 19th c ...

From a revolutionary way of testing children for tuberculosis to a cure for a previously untreatable strain, scientists from across the globe launched a fresh broadside Thursday against the world's deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis, a severe lung infection that is curable but historically hard to detect, kills more people each year than ...

The United Nations joined two other international organizations Thursday in calling on Guinea-Bissau to hold legislative elections on schedule November 18. The appeal by the UN, African Union and the Economic Community of West Africa followed the Guinea-Bissau government's decision to extend for a month a voter census, a move that threatens to f ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday unveiled the continent's largest train manufacturing plant, a joint venture between the national rail firm and French transport group Alstom. The factory is a part of a 51-billion-rand ($3.5 billion, 3.1 billion-euro) deal between Alstom and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to ...

Scientists on Thursday unveiled a revolutionary way of screening children for tuberculosis, which they say will prevent hundreds of thousands each year from contracting the world's deadliest infectious disease. A multinational team based at the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in The Hague have developed a simple way of testing the stool samples of ...

It is a conflict at once cultural, generational and political: rap music in DR Congo is staging a frontal assault on rumba, accusing its ageing stars of only singing of love and other banalities. DRC's growing army of rappers say their urban lyrics reflect a gritty realism edged with angst as one of Africa's biggest and most unstable nations hea ...