Three killed at polling station in Ethiopia
BBC At least three people have been killed after an attack around a polling station 160km (99 miles) from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. An...
Category : Africa
Mount Nyiragongo: DR Congo residents flee as volcano erupts
BBC Thousands of people fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the night after a large volcano erupted. As the sky turned...
Total halts Mozambique gas project
BBC French energy giant Total has suspended operations at a site exploring a major gas field in northern Mozambique weeks after Islamist militants attacked a...
Chad’s President Idriss Déby dies after ‘clashes with rebels
BBC Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died in clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said. The...
Niger suffers deadliest raids by suspected jihadists
BBC The death toll from co-ordinated raids on three villages in Niger by suspected jihadists on Sunday has risen to 137. “By systematically targeting civilians,...
Congo-Brazzaville presidential candidate in hospital with Covid-19
BBC The leading opposition candidate in Congo-Brazzaville’s presidential election is in hospital with Covid-19 while voting is under way. In a video circulating on social...
Samia Suluhu Hassan – Tanzania’s new president
BBC On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan has...
Tanzania’s president John Magufuli dies
BBC Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in...
South Africa halts AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
BBC South Africa has put its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on hold after a study showed “disappointing” results against its new Covid variant. Scientists...
Covid-19 in South Africa: Scientists seek to understand new variant
Scientists in South Africa say there is a “reasonable concern” that the new variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country might prove to be more...