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Ethiopian PM says troops ordered to move on Tigray capital

AP News Updated Nov 26, 2020 09:15 am

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the army has been ordered to move on the embattled Tigray capital after his 72-hour ultimatum ended for Tigray leaders to surrender, and he warns the city's half-million residents to stay indoors and disarm

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan former prime minister, dies of virus

AP News Updated Nov 26, 2020 06:56 am

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and leader of the country’s largest political party, has died of COVID-19 in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates

Africa CDC sees COVID-19 vaccinations in 2nd quarter of 2021

AP News Updated Nov 26, 2020 04:36 am

Africa's top public health official says vaccinations against COVID-19 on the continent might not start until the second quarter of next year

Nigerian army admits shooting in air at deadly protest

AP News Published Nov 16, 2020 07:16 am

Nigeria’s army has said after weeks of denial that its troop did fire shots into the air to disperse a large crowd at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos where several peaceful protesters were killed late in October

Germany charges press office worker with spying for Egypt

AP News Updated Nov 16, 2020 06:36 am

German prosecutors say they have formally charged a government press office employee with spying for an Egyptian intelligence service

As schools reopen in Africa, relief is matched by anxiety

AP News Published Nov 16, 2020 01:36 am

As schools reopen in some African countries after months of lockdown, relief is matched by anxiety over everything from how to raise tuition fees amid the financial strain wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic to how to protect students in…

Ethiopia’s Tigray leader confirms firing missiles at Eritrea

AP News Updated Nov 15, 2020 10:36 am

The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital, and he is threatening more, saying that “we will take any legitimate military target and we will fire.”

Algerian president finishes virus treatment, undergoes tests

AP News Published Nov 15, 2020 09:16 am

Algeria's president has finished his treatment for COVID-19 in an undisclosed location in Germany is now undergoing medical tests, according to his office

Rebel leaders who inked deal with government return to Sudan

AP News Updated Nov 15, 2020 08:16 am

Sudan’s rebel leaders, who sealed a peace deal with the transitional government last month, have returned to the capital, Khartoum

Diplomats: Rockets fired at Eritrea amid Ethiopian conflict

AP News Updated Nov 14, 2020 02:16 pm

Diplomats say rockets have been fired at Eritrea’s capital, as the deadly fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region appears to spill across an international border and bring some of observers’ worst fears to life

Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

AP News Updated Nov 14, 2020 01:56 pm

The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year

UN chief vows to do utmost to keep Western Sahara cease-fire

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 02:16 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is ramping up efforts to try to get Morocco and pro-independence supporters in disputed Western Sahara to step back from a renewed flare up of fighting

Zambia says it will default on debt owed private investors

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 11:35 am

Zambia’s government said it would miss a Friday deadline to clear debt owed to external investors who rejected the country’s request for deferral of an overdue $42.5 million interest payment

Pakistani suspected in rape of mother, child killed in raid

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 11:15 am

Pakistani police say they brought along a suspect they had arrested earlier this week for the abduction and rape of a mother and her 5-year-old daughter on a raid to identify his accomplice in the shocking crime, only to have the man shot…

As Ethiopia’s conflict rages, ethnic targeting turns deadly

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 10:16 am

Ethnic Amharas killed

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah positive for coronavirus

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 10:16 am

Egyptian soccer star and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has tested positive for the coronavirus

South African ruling party official charged with corruption

AP News Published Nov 13, 2020 07:15 am

A top official of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, has been charged with 21 counts of fraud and corruption, a significant step in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s drive against graft in the country

French forces kill al-Qaida-linked commander in Mali

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 05:55 am

The French military says French ground forces and military helicopters killed a jihadi commander linked with al-Qaida in Mali along with four others

14 Burkina Faso soldiers killed by extremists in Sahel area

AP News Published Nov 13, 2020 03:35 am

Burkina Faso's government says 14 soldiers have been killed and several others were injured in an extremist attack in the Sahel region

Zimbabweans mend shabby dollar notes amid economic crisis

AP News Updated Nov 13, 2020 02:36 am

One dollar bills are king in Zimbabwe, beset by a worsening economic crisis, as shoppers rely on them to buy their daily bread and other small purchases

UN votes to crack down on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists

AP News Updated Nov 12, 2020 08:15 pm

The U.N. Security Council has voted to prevent the sale or shipment to Somalia of components of improvised explosive devices if there is “significant risk” they may be used to manufacture the often deadly devices that are increasingly being…

National Park Service faces $270M wrongful death claim

AP News Updated Nov 12, 2020 03:15 pm

The family of a women’s rights activist from Uganda has filed a more than $270 million wrongful death and personal injury claim against the National Park Service after she was decapitated by an unsecured gate at Utah’s Arches National Park

First witness account emerges of Ethiopians fleeing conflict

AP News Updated Nov 12, 2020 11:16 am

The first witness accounts are emerging from the thousands of Ethiopian refugees who are streaming over the border into Sudan by the thousands, while the deadly fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region shows no sign of easing

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