Africa

The Nigerian Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to deploy troops to the Republic of Benin, backing regional efforts to restore peace and stability following last weekend’s attempted coup. …

he Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has explained that the precautionary landing of its C-130 aircraft in Burkina Faso was due to a technical issue and carried out in line with …

A Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Bobo-Dioulasso on Monday after experiencing what officials described as an “in-flight emergency situation” while operating in …

A senior political figure has issued a forceful condemnation of the recent coup d’état in the Benin Republic, describing it as “an utterly unacceptable assault on constitutional order” and warning …

Benin’s Interior Minister, Alassane Seidou, has announced that the country’s military has successfully thwarted an attempted coup by what he described as “a small group of soldiers.” Speaking on national …

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared an end to the country’s latest Ebola outbreak, which has killed at least 34 people since August. Dieudonne Mwamba …

South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia on Monday began administering a new HIV-prevention injection in the drug’s first public rollout across Africa, the continent with the world’s highest HIV burden. The …

Former Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has expressed concern over recent political developments in Guinea-Bissau, drawing parallels with Nigeria’s own electoral …

The African Union (AU) has suspended Guinea-Bissau from all its bodies following a military coup that ousted President Umaro Embalo earlier this week. AU chairman Mahamoud Youssouf confirmed the suspension …

The army in Guinea-Bissau has seized power, announcing the removal of the president and the suspension of government institutions in a dramatic turn of events that has plunged the West …