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Artisanal gold miners at work in Mali.

Miners expelled from Guinea begin to leave assembly site in Mali

7 hours ago

Displaced people in Dikwa, Borno State, north-east Nigeria.

UNHCR appeals for $2 million as Nigerians flee insecurity across borders

9 hours ago

Cotonou, Benin's economic capital.

Benin: President Wadagni overhauls the military high command

10 hours ago

Rebel fighters outside the South Kivu provincial administration office in Bukavu.

DR Congo: FRN offensive puts armed forces under pressure in South Kivu

10 November 2026

Government soldiers and police who surrendered are escorted in Goma, January 2025.

DR Congo military court sentences 66 soldiers to death for deserting the front

10 November 2026

A child prepares water at a camp in Moyale, Kenya, 3 November 2026.

Up to 50,000 Ethiopians flee to Kenya as clashes escalate around Moyale

10 November 2026

Seized narcotics on display near Mombasa in an earlier operation.

Kenya seizes 454kg of methamphetamine worth $27 million on the coast

9 November 2026

Migrants aboard a wooden boat arrive at La Restinga, El Hierro, in the Canary Islands.

Senegal vows to pursue smugglers after boat sinking claims 39 lives

9 November 2026

Merchant vessels off Djibouti, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Regional conflicts raise fears of renewed piracy in the Gulf of Aden

9 November 2026

Paul Mackenzie awaits sentencing at the Mombasa High Court, 6 November 2026.

Kenya: Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie sentenced to 200 years

6 November 2026

Joseph Kabila meets MONUSCO head James Swan in Goma, 3 November 2026.

MONUSCO chief meets Joseph Kabila and FRN rebel leaders in Goma

3 November 2026

Presidents Vladimir Putin and John Mahama at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, 30 October 2026.

Russia agrees to stop recruiting Ghanaians to fight in Ukraine

2 November 2026