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The World Meteorological Organization expects wetter conditions across the Greater Horn of Africa and says the event is almost certain to last until February.
Lusaka says clauses on sharing patient samples were removed. Harare called the terms lopsided and a breach of sovereignty, and now risks losing HIV funding.
About 15 members of an anti-migrant group tried to block people queuing at the Durban reception office. Only 20 applicants were processed that day.
Europe buys more than four-fifths of Namibia's beef exports. The disease has reached 11 farms in the south since it was declared on 22 September.
On World Cotton Day, a South African industry voice argues the continent should spin, weave and sew more of what it grows, and points to one farmer's rise from four hectares to 200.
A university campus, a maternity ward, the airport and government offices were also damaged. Power cuts have knocked out water and sewage systems as the rains begin.
Two weeks of talks in Lilongwe ended with warm words on spending discipline and fuel pricing, and no agreement yet on the financing the country has lacked since May 2025.
The aircraft came down in mangrove swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State. The flight recorders have not been found and President Tinubu has declared three days of mourning.
More than £2 million will help companies in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and elsewhere replace diesel generators at clinics, phone masts, farms and fishing harbours.
Senegal beat Morocco 1-0 on the pitch in January, then lost the final by forfeit after a walk-off. Arbitrators in Lausanne must decide which result stands.
Non-communicable diseases caused 4.7 million deaths on the continent in 2023. High blood pressure, diet and dirty air account for more than half of them.
Witnesses and a pro-government commander say uniformed Eritrean soldiers with heavy weapons have been in the town of Adigrat for days. Addis Ababa and Asmara cut diplomatic ties last week.
A new statistical model puts the likely 2025 toll far above the confirmed counts. It comes as a record number of countries vote to keep the UN's Sudan investigation running.
Three former presidents visited the rebel-held city on Monday. A day later Uhuru Kenyatta was in Rwanda to discuss how to move two parallel peace tracks forward.
The 73-year-old returned to the Black Stars in September and lasted a month, after qualifying defeats to Ivory Coast and Gambia.
The pentagon at the family home in Bondo recalls the raised fist that became his signature, and the five-member team that carried his 2007 campaign.
South Africa's president, who chairs the African Union committee on South Sudan, told Salva Kiir that political, security and logistical problems must be settled before the 22 December vote.
The national intelligence agency says Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow, who ran the group's feared Amniyat unit for eight years, died in an operation in Jilib on 1 October.
The former president said accountability must start with those at the very top, and admitted the institutions her own government built have not ended graft.
The activist, wanted in Benin after backing a failed coup, said he was a diplomat for Niger. The court found no evidence he was ever accredited in South Africa.
The northern town fell to rebels in April. Analysts call its recapture, with Russian support, a symbolic win for the military government rather than a decisive one.
Nairobi will stage the 2029 World Athletics Championships, the first African city chosen to do so. The head of Wada says promises on doping now have to become results.
Pamela Tulizo's series Mababu uses costume and staged scenes to portray African women who resisted slavery and colonisation.
Farmers say the rains no longer arrive when they should. With parts of the south already hit by famine, aid agencies warn that drought could deepen hunger.
From Sudan to Ghana, communities describe complexion with vocabularies that carry history, status and ideas of beauty, and do not translate neatly into "Black".
The Nigerian refinery is trying to raise $1.6bn in what could be Africa's largest stock market listing. The offer closes on 13 October.
A man who fell ill in DR Congo crossed three countries before dying in a Nairobi hospital. No other infection has been confirmed in Kenya, but the case has raised hard questions about border screening.
The festival's 19th edition celebrates women filmmakers, examines the roles and funding they are offered, and subtitles its films in Arabic for the first time.
Fuel has been rationed in Gabon's capital since late September. The government calls it a temporary disruption; station managers say deliveries keep coming up short.
Aguila Saleh, a long-time ally of Khalifa Haftar, has been replaced by a Tobruk lawmaker a day after MPs voted to limit the speaker's term.
More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized in five countries in six years. Where a pharmacy is too far or too expensive, the UN finds, illicit sellers fill the gap.
Accra has asked India to support its application as it looks to widen its economic and diplomatic partnerships, the foreign minister says.
Around 100,000 solar panels were installed across the continent every day this year, one estimate suggests, as households and businesses abandon diesel generators.
The African Union-backed AfCRA, based in Mauritius, is meant to offer an alternative to Fitch, Moody's and S&P — and to bring down what the continent pays to borrow.
The country is one of seven invited to present a bid for 2036 in November, though Qatar is widely seen as the favourite.
At least five people have died after four days of torrential rain. Schools will now open on 12 October, and more rain is forecast.
Sosina Mengistu began taking self-portraits while stranded during the pandemic. Six years on, the project has become a record of a generation's uncertainty.
Organisers of the African Development Summit 2026 say the continent's missing piece is not talent or ideas but coordination and execution — and that the diaspora should be treated as partners and builders, not only as senders of remittances.
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