There are five former CAF Champions League trophy-holders among the 52 clubs involved in the first series of 2018/2019 season matches this Tuesday and Wednesday. Orlando Pirates of South Africa and ASEC Mimosas of the Ivory Coast begin the two-leg preliminary round with home fixtures. Ismaily of Egypt, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa and Cl ...

Twelve people have been killed in a suspected Islamist militant attack in northern Mozambique, with thousands of villagers fleeing into neighbouring Tanzania, police sources said Sunday. Hardline Islamists have launched several attacks in the majority -Muslim province during the last year, stoking unrest just as Maputo pushes ahead with oil and ...

Twelve people have been killed in a suspected Islamist attack in northern Mozambique, with thousands of villagers fleeing the area into neighbouring Tanzania, police sources said Sunday. Early Friday, there was an attack in Nangane district, where there are no security patrols. The attackers killed 12 people, mostly women and children, a polic ...

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo smiles and waves from fading billboards in his hometown of Kyebi, in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the country's Eastern Region. Nearby is another sign for the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, whose steep slopes and cloud-topped peaks rise from the fields of cassava and trees of ripening bananas and cocoa pods below. ...

The debate over the restitution of thousands of African cultural artefacts from France has been heated, but in West Africa conservators prefer to call it collaboration and are preparing for their return. The French presidency announced on Friday night that it was restoring without delay 26 works plundered by the French army in 1892 and claim ...

A leader of an umbrella group of local governments from across Africa insisted Friday that sustainable development is needed to cope with the challenges of rapid urbanisation on the continent. Thousands of delegates are meeting for the Africities Summit that brings together local leaders, civil society, governments and international donors eve ...

The UN Special Representative for the Central African Republic on Friday conceded the inability of the mission he heads to prevent attacks after at least 60 people were killed in the centre of the violence-wracked country. We are making all possible efforts to prevent outbreaks of violence of this nature but we find these efforts are not en ...

The newly-appointed prime minister of the tiny kingdom of eSwatini on Friday banned first class air travel for top government officials as part of a slew of measures to control spending. Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini, who took office a month ago, also announced that he will not buy a new car for himself but inherit the old one used by his prede ...

Constitutional crisis looms in Gabon as cronies manoevre to shield President Ali Bongo's temporary incapacity , one month after falling critically ill in Saudi Arabia. The 59-year-old president has been undergoing treatment at a hospital in the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he reportedly suffered a stroke on October 24. The influential African ...

The African Union on Friday said an internal investigation had found sexual harassment to be prevalent within the organisation. The admission comes after a committee was established in May to investigate anonymous allegations. It found some female employees, especially those on internships, volunteer programmes or short-term contracts, were ...

After a 15-year career in banking and marketing, Nigerian Mike Dada was looking for a platform to communicate the strength of Africa to the rest of the world . He decided to set up Afrima -- the All Africa Music Awards -- Africa's equivalent of the Grammys, whose fourth edition takes place this weekend in Ghana's capital, Accra. In 2014, pen ...

Why are films out of Africa struggling for exposure in festivals in France? Of the nine films competing for awards in the 3 Continents Festival in Nantes, not one of them is African. But artistic director Jerome Baron says the festival is trying to keep the creative fire burning in Africa. It's a fact, this year and in recent years, the festival ...

A report commissioned by the French President, published Friday, is recommending the country change its strict heritage laws to allow the return of thousands of African artworks looted during French colonisation. The report 's authors, Senegalese writer and economist Felwine Sarr and French historian Benedicte Savoy, say that African works being ...

Wales coach Warren Gatland has admitted to being wary of a resurgent South African team he says has reclaimed some of its old identity ahead of next year's Rugby World Cup. Gatland said Saturday's match at Cardiff's Principality Stadium had the feeling of a Cup game, with the Welsh bidding for a ninth successive victory, last achieved in 1999. ...

Religious freedom is under threat in one of every five nations around the globe, in part because of an increase in aggressive ultranationalism , a Catholic NGO said in a report Thursday. Aid to the Church in Need found incidents of religious persecution in 21 countries in the two years to June 2018, including Niger, Myanmar, India and China. ...

Questions loom about the sanity of African opposition leaders, as a single candidate deal to unseat the Kabila regime in DR Congo collapses. And can President Buhari survive the mass defections from his APC party? This week, we examine the complicated mathematics of opposition politics in Africa, following failed efforts by political heavyweight ...

French authorities warned Thursday of a spike in migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the English Channel by boat to reach Britain, which could reflect fears the border will be shut after Brexit. Maritime police rescued 18 people in two separate rescue operations overnight, bringing to 30 the number of attempted crossings so far this ye ...

Seven local employees of a French drilling firm and a government official were killed Thursday when suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed the compound where they were sleeping in southeastern Niger. The attack shattered months of relative calm in the Diffa region near the Lake Chad basin, a strategic area where the borders of four countries conver ...

Seven employees of a French mineral and water drilling firm and a local official were killed early Thursday when gunmen attacked their site in southeastern Niger, the company said. A group of terrorists attacked the building where a team of Foraco drillers and technicians were resting in the village of Toumour, in southeastern Niger, the compa ...

Ivory Coast and Chelsea great Didier Drogba announced his retirement on Wednesday after a 20-year career. The 40-year-old scored 164 goals in 381 appearances for Chelsea, winning four Premier League titles, four FA Cups and the 2012 Champions League, while he is also Ivory Coast's all-time record goalscorer with 65. Drogba most recently playe ...