By MondAfrique: As a whole, Africa has seen its debt increase five-fold over the past twenty years, to reach $700...
Africa Bound
Senegal President Suspends Presidential Election, Pushes Country into Chaos
By Nicolas Beau | MondAfrique: The specter of an unprecedented political crisis looms over Senegal with President...
Comoros: First African election ends in disaster, opens door for more drama in the continent
The African island nation of Comoros was the first to organize an election as we entered 2024. As expected, the...
Nigeria: New president starts job on shaky ground after nearly tripling fuel prices
By Alexandre Martins Lopes with Louise Dewast in Abuja and Aminu Abubakar in Kano: Commuting to work in Lagos,...
The collapsing Sudan
The UN on Monday warned more than 800,000 people could flee fighting and dire conditions in Sudan, where explosions...
Sudan: As military-men fight over power, Khartoum falls into chaos
Thousands of residents on Wednesday fled Sudan's capital, where witnesses said bodies lay in the street from fighting...
Sahel: Despite closing its borders, Chad sees hundreds of Sudanese soldiers flee into its territory
Around 320 Sudanese soldiers have fled the fighting raging in their country to neighbouring Chad, the country's...
Africa: Competition between France and Russia over Africa is getting more violent
By Barbara Debou: On a night in early March, arsonists attacked a brewery owned by the French drinks giant Castel in...
Africa: Troubled African nations say they want to restore some “democratic” order
By Hillary Orinde: The African Union insisted on Sunday it had "zero tolerance" for undemocratic changes of power and...
Major rift between Africa and west over Russia’s war on Ukraine
France urges Africa to break its neutrality in Russia-Ukraine conflict France is calling on African nations to show...
Environment: Severe floods wreck havoc on West African agriculture
By Aminu Abubakar Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from...
Sahel: Millions of people face food shortages
The United Nations warned Friday that up to 18 million people in the Sahel face severe food insecurity, with rations...
Security: As Russia’s influence in Africa grows, EU wants to impose sanctions on Russian mercenaries Wagner
EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to draw up more sanctions on shadowy Russian mercenary group Wagner over its...
Africa: With terror groups intensely fixated on Africa, security outlook feels gloomy
By Didier Lauras - From the arid expanses of the Sahel into the Sinai Peninsula and now Mozambique, Africa is proving...
US-Africa: Trump’s disastrous reputation in Africa
As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the...
Outlook: Can the country of Togo be a Jihadi hotspot?
Dapaong, Togo, May 21, 2020 (By Célia Lebur) - In a makeshift bunker of sacks of rice beneath a tree, heavily-armed...
Africa: Covid-19 is not alone, other diseases intensify health crisis in Africa
Lagos, May 19, 2020 (By Sophie Bouillon) - African nations grappling to contain coronavirus are scrambling to stop the...
Sahel: Terror groups in Sahel exploit Covid-19 to step up attacks
United Nations, United States, May 8, 2020 - UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has warned that jihadist groups in...
Sahel: Africom says it lost drone in Niger due to technical failure
Niamey, May 7, 2020 - The US military in Niger said Thursday they had lost a second drone in two months, both through...
Late in the game, Nigeria starts repatriating citizens stranded abroad
Abuja, May 6, 2020 - Nigeria on Wednesday was to start repatriating nationals stranded overseas by coronavirus travel...
Nigeria: Lagos ends lockdown despite expanding virus
Lagos, May 4, 2020 - Africa's biggest city, Lagos, got back to work on Monday at the end of a five-week coronavirus...
Nigeria: First man to be hanged in ‘virtual’ trial
Lagos, May 5, 2020 - A Nigerian court sentenced a man to death in the country's first ever virtual ruling during a...
Nigeria: Mass deaths in Kano possibly tied to Covid-19
Kano, Nigeria, May 4, 2020 - Mass deaths in a northern Nigerian state were caused by coronavirus, the authorities said...
Africa: How to pay a country’s debt with cows
Angola has received a herd of more than 1,000 cattle from Chad, a government official said Monday, the latest shipment...
Africa reassesses its relations with China as Covid-19 exposes racial tensions
Abuja, April 14, 2020 (By Celia Lebur) - African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling...
Setback in fight against Boko Haram: Chad to withdraw from regional force
N'Djamena, April 10, 2020 - Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has said his country's troops, who have been deployed...
Nigeria downgraded by Fitch Ratings
Abuja, April 6, 2020 - Nigeria has asked for $6.9 billion from multilateral lenders including the International...
Nigeria: Refugee camps in Nigeria facing a new enemy
Maiduguri, Nigeria, April 3, 2020 (By Audu Abba Kurama and Aminu Abubakar in Kano) - Men and women cluster around...
Sahel: French soldiers active in the Sahel test positive for Covid-19
Paris, April 2, 2020 - Four French soldiers deployed in the Sahel region of western Africa in France's anti-jihadist...
Sahel: Covid-19 magnifies food crisis in the Sahel
Dakar, April 2, 2020 - More than five million people in Africa's conflict-ravaged Sahel region are facing hunger, the...
States within the state: Nigerian governors order their own state shutdown
Warri, Nigeria, April 1, 2020 - Thousands of Nigerians have been left cut off from homes and businesses as states...
Africa: How to lock down a 20-million-people city?
Lagos, March 31, 2020 - Roads in Africa's largest city Lagos were deserted Tuesday after Nigeria locked down its...
Africa is completely unprepared to deal with confinement of large populations
Lagos, March 30, 2020 (By Celia Lebur) - Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in...
Four more African countries announce first case of Covid-19
Bamako, March 25, 2020 - Four countries led by war-ravaged Mali on Wednesday joined the lengthening list of African...
Nigeria: Dozens of soldiers killed in insurgents’ RPG attack in Borno
Kano, Nigeria, March 24, 2020 - At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by jihadist...
Concerns about Africa’s readiness to confront Covid-19
Lagos, March 24, 2020 - Equipment shortages, scarce beds and poorly-paid doctors and nurses: Africa is finding that it...
Covid-19: Africa update as of March 23, 2020
March 23, 2020 - Democratic Republic of Congo's second largest city began a 48-hour lockdown and three more African...
Africa: Beware of the chloroquine rush, warn Nigerians
Lagos, March 20, 2020 - Authorities in Nigerian megacity Lagos said Friday that hospitals had seen cases of...
Africans doing their best to thwart Covid-19 in a tough environment
Lagos, March 20, 2020 (By Max Delany - Photo: Cape Town, Tim Johnson @timalanjohnson) - African countries led by...