Africa

The International Monetary Fund has discussed options with Senegal to address the country’s “significant debt vulnerabilities”, a spokesperson for the fund said on Tuesday.

Lagos is a vibrant cultural hub, much like during Fela’s lifetime, and the Afrobeat sound, heard everywhere from nightclubs to roadside bars and political rallies, has propelled many Nigerian musicians to global fame.

The Congo, the Amazon, the world’s biggest rainforest, and the Borneo-Mekong-Southeast Asia basin, the third-largest, all face threats from expanding farm frontiers, logging, mining and other industries.

The continent’s top oil producer has long sought to end its reliance on imported fuel, and the 15% import duty seeks to safeguard recent multi-billion-dollar investments in domestic refining, the government said in a memo announcing the measure this week.

Tanzania’s electoral commission declared on Saturday that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had won, with nearly 98% of the votes, an election that set off violent protests across the country this week.

Officials believe the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) alone could draw as many as 7-million additional visitors annually after it officially opens on Saturday, helping boost total visitors to about 30-million by 2030.

Zimbabwe is allowing millers to import maize two months after it announced a ban, following an official downward revision of the country’s 2024/2025 harvest.

Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates president, called on Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire and civilian transition in war-ravaged Sudan.

Uganda’s electoral commission on Tuesday named January 15 as the date for the country’s general election, at which octogenarian President Yoweri Museveni will seek to extend his rule to nearly half a century.

Comedians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are mining their country’s chronic instability for laughs, entertaining people displaced by the war with the M23 rebels with their dark humour.

The son of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has appeared in court in Harare on a charge of alleged drug possession.

Malawi's former president Peter Mutharika won this month's presidential election, as voters rejected incumbent Lazarus Chakwera after five years of worsening economic crisis in one of the world's poorest countries.

Lesotho's minister of trade, industry and business development, Mokhethi Shelile, this week visited Washington.

Villarreal midfielder Thomas Partey on Wednesday appeared in a London court and pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault involving three women.

Senegalese authorities intercepted 112 migrants aboard a long wooden fishing boat known as a pirogue off the coast of Dakar on Tuesday as they attempted to reach Europe via a perilous Atlantic Ocean route, officials said.