News24.com | South Sudan president offers key compromise for peace
South Sudan’s president said on Saturday he would return to a system of 10 states, a key opposition demand, paving the way for a unity government and an end to…
News24.com | Chairing the African Union is a great responsibility – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa said chairing the African Union is a great responsibility, and one he intends to execute with diligence and commitment over the coming year. Ramaphosa was delivering his…
News24.com | Did Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed get the Nobel Prize too soon?
In 2018 Abiy Ahmed became prime minister of Ethiopia, after protests caused the ruling coalition to reshuffle and remove the governing party from power after nearly 30 years of authoritarian…
News24.com | South Sudan’s Kiir says no compromise to end peace deal deadlock
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Friday dismissed international calls for compromise with his foes to break a deadlock that threatens a ceasefire in their six year war. Kiir and…
News24.com | Ethiopia delays elections by two weeks to August 29
Ethiopia’s electoral board said on Friday it planned to hold landmark national polls on August 29, nearly two weeks later than an initial timeline announced last month. The new date…
News24.com | First coronavirus case in Africa: Egypt health ministry
Egypt’s health ministry on Friday confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, making it the first in Africa. The nationality of the person was not given in the joint…
News24.com | Son of Congo president not charged in France: lawyer
A son of Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has not been charged in a French probe into the assets in France of the families of several African leaders,…
News24.com | 20 killed at ethnic flarepoint in central Mali
Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight on a village in central Mali, local officials said on Friday, in an apparent spate of ethnic violence in the deeply troubled…
News24.com | Zambia deploys troops to quell gas attacks by criminal gangs
Zambia has deployed soldiers to suppress a wave of attacks on civilians by gangs using a special gas to immobilise their victims. “The president has directed the army to be…