A planned reduction to the US military's footprint in Africa would not impact Army operations across the continent, the head of the US Army in Africa said Tuesday. The Pentagon last month announced it would trim about 10 percent of the 7,200 US troops in Africa as part of a broader shift in focus towards Great Power competitors such as China a ...

Delegates from some 50 African countries are attending the two-week negotiations in Poland, which are aimed at building confidence in the battle to limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C. The enthusiasm generated in Africa, by the 2015 Paris global accord, has been fading amid growing skepticism about humanity's ability to ...

Is Nigeria's current president Mohammadu Buhari or a clone? An extraordinary story has been trending on social media in Nigeria that the man now in charge of the country is not Buhari but a lookalike from Sudan called Djubril. The man currently living in the presidential Aso Rock Villa in Abuja is in Poland for the Katowice 24 Climate Summit. He ...

Madagascar presidential hopeful Marc Ravalomanana has said he is confident of closing the gap for a second round victory over his rival who narrowly beat him in the first leg of presidential polls. Andry Rajoelina got 39.23 percent of votes and Ravalomanana 35.35 percent in last month's poll, according to final results, setting up the pair for a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged all parties meeting in Geneva this week to discuss the Western Sahara dispute to be constructive and impose no conditions for formal talks. Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania are taking part in two days of roundtable discussion with a UN envoy starting Wednesday to try to r ...

More than 200 students at Makerere University are set to benefit from a new SciDev.Net training course called Script aimed at nurturing the science journalists of tomorrow and addressing the lack of high-quality science reporting in Africa. The Script training course and networking programme, which is funded by Robert Bosch -Stiftung and was lau ...

A growing number of migrants are flocking to Yemen, even as its dire humanitarian crisis deepens, with nearly 150,000 expected to arrive in the war-ravaged country in 2018, the UN said Tuesday. Yemen remains a major stop on the route for migrants from Africa to wealthy Gulf states, and smugglers are taking advantage of the chaos of the war to ev ...