Africa

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe looks to turn page on brutality and chaos of Mugabe

What’s at stake in Zimbabwe’s election? The country is choosing a new president after 40 years under Robert Mugabe brought repression and economic ruin.

30/07/2018

Mali

Counting in Mali presidential poll is underway amid increasing ethnic and jihadist violence

Voting was briefly suspended at a polling station in a village in the northern region of Kidal after militants fired about 10 mortar bombs

30/07/2018

Zimbabwe

Polls open in Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe presidential election

Voters in the southern African country are choosing a new president, eight months after Robert Mugabe was forced from power following nearly 40 years of repressive rule.

29/07/2018

Zimbabwe

Mugabe says he will vote for the opposition in Monday's poll

Mugabe told reporters at his mansion in Harare that Mnangagwa's government was unconstitutional

29/07/2018

Mali

Voters across Mali set to vote in presidential election

Sunday's vote comes after five years of internal strife and violence

27/07/2018

Madagascar

Soaring prices of vanilla affecting Madagascar farmers

Soaring prices for Madagascar's vanilla should have been good news for farmers but now, because thieves stole many crops last year, it's now a stressing and worrying, taking matters into their own hands

27/07/2018

Business

Brics summit: importance of "open world economy"

Leaders of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies, signed a declaration supporting an open and inclusive multilateral trading system under World Trade Organisation rules

27/07/2018

Tunisia

Tunisia releases suspected Islamist deported by Germany

Sami Aidoudi, said to have worked for Osama bin Laden, was deported to his native Tunisia despite a court ruling saying he could stay in Germany.

27/07/2018

Egypt

Egyptian zoo accused of painting donkey to look like a zebra

Donkey or zebra? Egyptian zoo accused of painting donkey to look like a zebra.

26/07/2018

Kenya

Boys in Kenya use slingshots to plant tree seeds

Schoolboys in Kenya are using slingshots for good: instead of rocks, they’re shooting charcoal-covered seeds to plant trees.

23/07/2018

South Africa

South Africa: 11 taxi drivers killed in ambush

11 South African taxi drivers were killed after they were ambushed on Saturday night.

22/07/2018

Cult

Tunisian protest singer on world tour

Tunisian protest singer on world tour

20/07/2018

Egypt

Egypt tomb mystery finally solved

Exactly what was found in the 2,000-year-old sarcophagus?

20/07/2018

South Africa

Euroviews. Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom Showed We Can Change The World | View

His face is one of the most recognisable in the world but back then, it had been 24 years since the last photograph of Mandela had been published. Few people knew what Mandela looked like, let alone what kind of man he had become. And now here he was, standing before me, his hand outstretched.

18/07/2018

Europe News

Avramopoulos: Everyone shares responsibility for migrant deaths

The EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has told Euronews that authorities on both sides of the Mediterranean must prioritise the saving of migrant lives.

18/07/2018

Egypt

What's in Egypt's 2,000-year-old black box – and should it be opened?

The discovery of a sealed ancient sarcophagus in Alexandria has prompted a frenzy of interest in what it might contain – and whether opening it to find out would be wise...

18/07/2018

Libya

Woman the sole survivor after migrant trio 'abandoned' at sea

This is the sole survivor after three migrants were abandoned in the sea off Libya, a Spanish charity has claimed.

18/07/2018

World News

Silk Way Rally 2018: the gruelling race prepares to kick off in Russia

The 2018 Silk Way Rally is poised to be one of the most competitive ever. The race comprises 2,500 kilometres of special stages over seven days.

17/07/2018

Egypt

Lebanese woman jailed in Egypt for Facebook video post

Lebanese tourist, Mona el-Mazbouh, has been jailed for eight years in Egypt for posting a Facebook video in which she was critical of the country.

10/07/2018

Eritrea

Ethiopia and Eritrea end two decades of frozen conflict

In 1998 the horn of Africa nations began a bitter first world war style conflict over a small piece of territory with no obvious value.

09/07/2018

Africanews

Eritrea Ethiopia set to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties

After long years of hostility, Eritrea and Ethiopia are set to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties.

09/07/2018

Africanews

#WhatInspiresAfrica: 23 year old Moroccan engineer develops a clay based power-less refrigerator

Inspire Africa features a deaf-mute Semba dance instructor in Mauritius, a 23 year old Moroccan engineer who has designed a power-less refrigerator and talk to the brain behind an online platform prom

08/07/2018

Libya

Italy promises billions of euros to Libya if it accepts the return of migrants

Italy and Libya have agreed to reactivate a friendship treaty signed a decade ago that allowed migrants to be returned to Libyan territory.

08/07/2018

Africanews

Eritrea lines up Asmara streets with Ethiopian flags to welcome Abiy

Following the historic visit to Addis Ababa by an Eritrean delegation last month, it was announced that Abiy Ahmed would soon meet Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki.

08/07/2018

Somalia

Suicide attack on Somalian Presidential palace

Two explosions in Mogadishu

07/07/2018

Libya

Libya — with EU backing — can now order rescuers to return migrants

NGOs say the 'secretive' change, backed by the European Union, puts lives at risk.

06/07/2018