Under the gaze of the Sphinx, a spectacular Africa Cup of Nations draw in Giza on Friday night produced an intriguing set of groups that leave many riddles to be answered. After an open-air event against the illuminated backdrop of the pyramids, hosts Egypt, winners of the competition a record seven times, will face double champions Democra ...

Crowds of Sudanese waving flags and chanting we toppled two presidents in two days celebrated in the capital late Friday after the country 39;s military council chief stepped down a day after he was sworn in. We have done it, we have done it, shouted young men and women as they drove across Khartoum after General Awad Ibn Ouf announced ...

Nkana FC of Zambia are clinging to a 2-1 CAF Confederation Cup aggregate lead before facing CS Sfaxien in Tunisia Sunday, but coach Beston Chambeshi insists he feels no pressure. Everything is fine, he told reporters ahead of the quarter-final second leg in Mediterranean industrial city Sfax. We beat Sfaxien in the first leg so why s ...

An artificial intelligence research laboratory opened by Google in Ghana, the first of its kind in Africa, will take on challenges across the continent, researchers say. The US technology giant said the lab in the capital Accra would address economic, political and environmental issues. Africa has many challenges where the use of AI co ...

For the eighth Friday in a row, protesters across the Algerian capital took to the streets. Police failed on Friday to break up a wave of protesters marching through the streets of Algiers. They took to the streets despite the official resignation of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and an announcement that the next round of presidentia ...

Cyclone Idai which cut a deadly swathe through Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe last month, is expected to cost the three countries more than $2 billion (1.77 billion euros), the World Bank said. (E)arly estimates point to over US$2.0 billion in recovery costs for the infrastructure and livelihood impacts, it said in a statement issued aft ...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 750 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday, ahead of a key review on the severity of the epidemic. WHO 39;s latest toll for the outbreak declared in eastern DRC last August came as the agency 39;s International Health Regulations emergency committ ...

Famed Egyptian club Al Ahly face one of the greatest challenges in their 112-year history when they try to wipe out a five-goal CAF Champions League deficit Saturday. South African side Mamelodi Sundowns exceeded their own expectations by thrashing the Cairo Red Devils 5-0 last weekend in the first leg of a quarter-final. It was the hea ...

The rising influence of lending by China to developing nations is increasingly under the spotlight amid concerns the growing debt burden and onerous conditions could sow the seeds of a crisis. The global development lenders, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, are calling for more transparency about loan amounts and terms, and cautio ...

Trust in the presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa has emerged as the biggest determining factor in voter preference for the governing party in South Africa as the country prepares for landmark elections on 8 May. A three-year study conducted by the University of Johannesburg Centre for Social Development in Africa, published by today's Mail and Guardia ...

The draw for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations takes place in Cairo on Friday in a country that was only handed the task of organising the tournament in January. Egypt faces a race against time to be ready for the June 21 kick-off. Supposed to be in Cameroon... Egypt, seven-time winners of this competition, stood in for Cameroon after the cen ...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan acirc; euro; trade;s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events in Algeria and Sudan have been un ...

South Africa's ruling ANC has blocked a plan by a faction within its youth league to burn a book critical of the party's secretary general. The Free State Youth League disrupted the launch of the book because they claim that the allegations of corruption against Ace Magashule are false. In his book, Gangster State: unravelling Ace Magashule's ...

Dinar Tchere is fighting time and the sun, and he fears he may be losing. This morning, the health worker is expected in a remote village of eastern Chad, where he will administer the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to poor children. But he's behind schedule -- and there is limited time before his enemy, the blistering Sahelian heat, will ...

Equatorial Guinea's minister for economy and finance, Lucas Abaga Nchama, has been sacked for irregularities, according to a government decree published on Wednesday. Abaga Nchama, who was also in charge of planning, was dismissed for irregularities committed in the exercise of his office, it said, without giving further details. He has b ...

Loyalists of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir called for a support rally in Khartoum on Thursday as protesters demanding his resignation massed outside army headquarters for a fifth straight day. The National Congress Party 39;s executive bureau supports the national dialogue partners 39; initiative to organise a gathering to be seen by ...

Is the dream of one global internet still alive? Increasingly, moves by governments to filter and restrict content are threatening to fragment the system created with the promise of connecting the world with a largely unified body of content. China for years has walled off some western services, and the fragmentation may be accelerating ...

Executions fell worldwide by nearly a third last year to their lowest levels in at least a decade, but several countries recorded a rise, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Use of the death penalty dropped in Iran -- by an eye-popping 50 percent, following a change to its anti-narcotics laws -- Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia, the rights grou ...

A Saudi tourist drowned after he slipped and fell into the River Nile while apparently attempting to take a selfie, police said Tuesday. The Saudi national was on a tour on Uganda. He drowned as he was taking a selfie on the River Nile and the water swept him away, Uganda police spokeswoman Hellen Butoto told AFP. The body has been recover ...

The brutal forced eviction of 61 people, including 33 children, from a farming area in Eswatini one year ago has left in its wake a host of distressed children and poverty-stricken families struggling to survive, Amnesty International said following speaking to the affected families 12 months after they were made homeless. On 9 April 2018, Eswat ...