Congo’s constitutional court is poised to rule as early as Friday on a challenge to the presidential election results. But the African Union continental body has issued a surprise last-minute request for Congo’s government to delay releasing final results, citing “serious doubts” about the vote.
Read moreZimbabwe on Friday faced a “total internet shutdown,” a media group said, after a days-long violent crackdown on people protesting a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured people streamed into a hospital in the capital after alleged assaults by security forces.
Read morePolice in Ghana say an investigative journalist whose work exposing corruption in African soccer led to the downfall of a member of the sport’s high-powered FIFA Council has been shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike.
Read moreSeveral African countries with some of the world’s largest elephant populations will push this year for looser controls on legal ivory trade, while another group of countries on the continent says more restrictions are the best way to curb the illegal killing of elephants for their tusks.
Read moreDesperate to reach Europe from North Africa, two African migrants were discovered by police attempting to cross the Spanish border hidden inside a pair of mattresses.
Read moreEritrea has partially closed two border crossings with Ethiopia that opened this year after the former East African rivals made peace and restored relations, an Ethiopian official said Friday.
Read moreAn Ivorian asylum seeker who has spent nearly three years behind bars gained a chance at freedom Thursday after a federal judge blasted his continuing detention as an affront to democratic society.
Read moreIn a federal class action, John and Jane Doe claim that Ivo Tanku Tapang, “from what he presumes is a safe harbor hiding place at his San Jose residence,” is directing terrorist acts in Cameroon through the Ambazonia Defense Forces, a separatist movement, which killed the Does’ family members, and others.
Read moreFrench authorities have dropped a sensitive investigation into the plane crash that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, citing lack of sufficient evidence.
Read moreSouth African authorities issued an arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe’s former leader who was accused of assaulting a woman in Johannesburg last year, South African police said Wednesday.
Read moreCustoms officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport say they found 70 live finches hidden inside hair rollers.
Read moreAn early-morning fire in Congo’s capital destroyed nearly 80 percent of the capital city’s voting machines just 10 days before the presidential election, officials said Thursday, saying the blaze appeared to be criminal in nature but vowing that it would not disrupt the vote.
Read moreA conservation group says Tanzania’s agreement with Egyptian companies to build a huge hydroelectric dam in the Selous Game Reserve risks damage to an important wetland and could hurt the livelihoods of over 200,000 people who live downstream.
Read moreA federal jury convicted a Hong Kong businessman on Wednesday for his role in a more than $2 million bribery scheme that involved two African autocrats – and implicated former presidents of the U.N. General Assembly.
Read moreRecapping testimony about gift boxes stuffed with cash, a federal prosecutor told jurors at closing arguments Tuesday that a Chinese businessman’s globe-hopping corruption scheme has the trappings of a Hollywood thriller.
Read moreTwo former presidents of the United Nations General Assembly came under embarrassing scrutiny on Friday during the corruption trial of a Hong Kong businessman, as an FBI agent testified about a $500,000 payment to Uganda’s sitting president.
Read moreCasting a 90-story shadow near the United Nations and East River, Trump World Tower once had a unit belonging to China Energy Finance Corp – a company known as CEFC that had grand designs on Russia’s state-run oil giant.
Read moreAs a holiday season bribery trial began, a federal prosecutor regaled jurors on Monday with tales of a Hong Kong businessman giving an African president several gift boxes – stuffed with $2 million in cash instead of presents.
Read moreAfrican artworks held in French museums — richly carved thrones, doors to a royal kingdom, wooden statues imbued with spiritual meaning — may be heading back home to Africa at last.
Read moreEuropean Union leaders were set Thursday to push ahead with plans to boost cooperation with North African countries and beef up the bloc’s borders in an effort to stop migrants entering Europe.
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