The United Nations plans to convene a second round of talks in March on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara even though no major progress was made during the first round, diplomats said Tuesday. UN envoy Horst Koehler told a closed-door Security Council meeting that he intended to bring Morocco, the Algerian-backed Polisario Fron ...

China has responded to charges made by the US against the telecommunications giant Huawei as unfair and immoral . This ahead of trade talks between the US and China due on Wednesday, January 30. The United States Justice Department charged Huawei and its chief financial officer with conspiring to violate US sanctions on Iran by doing busin ...

The Netherlands on Monday refused a request by Italy to take in 47 migrants stuck on board a Dutch-flagged rescue ship that Italian ports have refused to allow to dock. The Sea Watch 3 ship, run by a German NGO, rescued the mainly sub-Saharan African migrants off Libya more than a week ago and is currently sheltering from bad weather off Sicily. ...

Superhero movie, Black Panther, won the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. A win that pushes it among the favourites for the Oscars in February. At the SAG, Black Panther was competing with heavyweights such as box-office hit, Crazy Ric ...

President Omar al-Bashir vowed Monday to bring peace in the state of South Kordofan where Sudanese forces are fighting rebels, as protesters planned to hold anti-government rallies in the country's conflict zones. Deadly protests triggered by a government decision to raise the price of bread have rocked the east African country for weeks. The ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani has denied targeting his opponents in the run-up to March elections, calling the detention of numerous opposition members in the Indian Ocean nation as unfortunate coincidences . Assoumani, who first came to power in a 1999 coup, insists the March 24 vote will be transparent, putting the impoverished islands on ...

Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he was gathering legal evidence against the crew of a Dutch-flagged rescue ship as calls grew for 47 migrants to be allowed to land. We have concrete elements to declare that the captain and crew of the Sea Watch 3 have put the lives of those on board at risk by disobeying precise directions ...

The trial reopened Friday of suspects in the deadly jihadist attack on the Tunisian capital's Bardo museum in 2015, with the hearing relayed by video to Paris for French victims' families. Several of the suspects in the attack that left 22 dead testified as the trial started in earnest, after five previous sessions over the last 18 months that h ...

Two demonstrators have been killed during anti-government protests in the Sudanese capital over the past day, according to the police. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Khartoum and neighbouring Omdurman on Thursday calling for President Omar al-Bashir to resign. In the state of Khartoum we have recorded two deaths, police spoke ...

Top African football official Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona faced judges at the International Criminal Court for the first time Friday, with his lawyer complaining his dignity was not respected during his arrest and extradition from France. Ngaissona, who sits on the board of the Confederation of African Football, is charged with coordinating so-c ...

Chafik Lafrid's life has become a nightmare since footage of his arrest in Marrakesh on New Year's Eve, wearing a dress and a wig, went viral on social media. Homosexuality is illegal in Morocco, and the 33-year-old, who occasionally dresses in women's clothes, had until that night kept secret the fact that he is gay. Until that is, he was detai ...

Africa's arms market is likely to grow by 50 percent over the next five years, analyst Stephane Konan said at a four-day trade show in Ivory Coast. The African market in defence represents only a drop of water in relation to the world market: 42.6 billion dollars out of 1,731 billion in 2017, Konan told AFP, citing figures from the Stockholm I ...

It has featured among complaints by French yellow vest protesters and in populist Italian rhetoric: Africa's CFA franc currency has become an unexpected hot topic on Europe's political fringes. When a list of unofficial yellow vest demands went viral in December, some observers were surprised to see scrapping the CFA franc included alongside ...

Renowned Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has vowed to step up the fight against criminals and murderers following the gangland-style assassination of his colleague Ahmed Hussein-Suale. The investigative journalist Hussein-Suale was shot by gunmen last week in a targeted attack that Anas believes may have been intended for him. ...

Two African exhibitors stand out in this year's Maison et Objet fair in Paris, where buyers come from around the world to select interior design and gift items for their shops. Hailing from Mopti, central Mali, Omar Cissé comes to Paris twice a year to exhibit and sell jewelry, including museum pieces, primarily made by women in and around the c ...

France on Wednesday transferred Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, a member of Africa's top footballing body, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague where he faces war crimes charges, the ICC said. Ngaissona, who sits on the board of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is charged with coordinating so-called anti-Balaka militia which e ...

Fans were left baffled on Wednesday after Liverpool's star Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah appeared to have deleted all of his social media accounts where his followers number in the millions. The Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts of Salah, who is idolised in Egypt and Liverpool, went offline without warning a day after he posted a cryptic ...

I think we are going to have to fight these guys , Ashford Maina told his colleagues, as Al-Shabaab gunmen closed in after chasing them through their office building. A moment later a gunman flung open the door to the group's hiding place -- a men's toilet -- and pulled Maina out. They've taken Ashford and we heard gunshots, one of the emp ...

A Ghanaian politician who promised to pay anyone who attacked an undercover reporter has been questioned as part of the investigation into his death, police have announced. Ahmed Hussein-Suale, who worked on a high-profile investigation into corruption in African football, was gunned down as he returned to his home in Accra last week. The kil ...

Up to 20 people were presumed dead off Russia-annexed Crimea in the Black Sea after a fire engulfed two ships sailing under the Tanzanian flag, authorities said Tuesday. The fire broke out when one vessel was transferring fuel to the other on Monday, driving both crews to jump overboard. Russian authorities rescued 12 people and recovered 10 ...