The World Health Organization chief warned Friday that growing unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was disrupting efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak, threatening gains made in fighting the deadly virus. The security situation in the Ebola-hit Beni and Butembo areas has deteriorated since Thursday morning as protests erupted against ...

Hundreds of black youths gathered at a fashionable Cape Town beach this Friday following reports that a private security company ordered blacks who came to spend their Christmas holiday there to leave. The eastern city where beaches, like many public areas, were segregated under white-minority apartheid rule remains a flashpoint of racial tensio ...

2018 was a bustling year on the African continent filled with elections and inaugurations that marked shifts in power from Liberia to Zimbabwe but also on a more grassroot level like in Tunisia where the capital elected its first female mayor. Moving away from years of tension also seemed to be on the menu for many countries, including Ethiopia ...

A charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spend Christmas at sea and several European nations denying the ship entry. The migrants cheered and applauded as the vessel docked in the port of Crinavis near the southern city of Algeciras and Pro ...

Authorities in Cape Town have criticised a private security company that allegedly ordered black beachgoers to leave a fashionable South African beach over the Christmas holiday. The city's mayor and a senior municipal official dismissed claims by the PPA security firm that it was working for the city authorities when patrolling the beach at Cli ...

A new mall in Cote d'Ivoire's capital aiming to attract the lower middle-class has seen more than 623,000 people through its doors since opening in October. The Cosmos mall in Abidjan's Yopougon area hopes to open up the shopping centre experience to Ivorians with less means that the typical rich clientele targeted by many African malls. It's r ...

Andry Rajoelina returned to power in Madagascar on Thursday after he beat his rival and predecessor Marc Ravalomanana in a presidential election beset by allegations of fraud. The country's electoral commission said Rajoelina won 55.66 percent of the vote in the run-off vote held last week. Ravalomanana claimed 44.34 percent. The defeated can ...