Congo’s Top Court Excludes Opposition Leader Bemba From Presidential Election Democratic Republic of Congo's top court on Monday definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December's presidential election because of… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
Survey: No Safe Haven for Girls in Crisis-Hit Lake Chad Region Teenage girls living in Africa's insurgency-hit Lake Chad region have no safe haven from the violence, with beatings and abuse… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
Schools Fail to Open in Cameroon’s Restive English-speaking Regions September 3rd marks the first day of the school year across much of the world. But in the English-speaking regions… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
Chinese President Defends ‘Belt and Road’ Projects in Africa Chinese President Xi Jinping told African political and business leaders Monday that China's investments on the continent are made with… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
Mobile App Helps Maasai Cattle Herders in Kenya A new mobile phone app using satellite images is helping Maasai cattle herders in Kenya find rich pastures and water… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
Al-Shabab Claims Deadly Somalia Suicide Car Bombing At least six people died in a suicide attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu after a car bomb detonated… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
UN Agency: Trips Across Mediterranean Fall, But Risks Rise The U.N. refugee agency says people smugglers are taking greater risks to ferry their human cargo toward Europe as Libya’s… 09/03/2018 Aimaf
About 400 Prisoners Escape Prison in Tripoli Chaos Some 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in Libya’s capital on Sunday while fighting between rival armed groups raged nearby,… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Ebola Survivors Returning Home to Fear, Stigma in Congo Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
IOM: Returning Nigerian Migrants Benefit from Business Training Skills The International Organization for Migration reports more than 270 Nigerian migrants who recently returned from Libya have completed a skills… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Car Bomb Strikes Somali Capital Witnesses in the Somali capital say a car bomb exploded near a compound in Mogadishu’s Hawlwadag district Sunday. Dr. Abdulkadir… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Tunisia Raises Fuel Prices; Fourth Hike This Year Tunisia’s government raised fuel prices Saturday by about 4 percent, the fourth hike this year, in an effort to rein… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Trains Delayed: Ethiopia Debt Worries Curtail China Funding Ethiopia has been lauded by experts from China’s ruling Communist Party as a “model country” in Beijing’s $126 billion Belt… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Ugandan Lawmaker Arrives in US for Medical Treatment Prominent Ugandan opposition lawmaker Robert Kyagulanyi arrived in the United States on Saturday to seek medical treatment for what he said was… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Sources: Islamists in Northeast Nigeria Kill up to 30 Soldiers Islamist militants have killed up to 30 soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources… 09/02/2018 Aimaf
Thousands Will Attend Schools in DRC’s Ebola-Affected Areas Government authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say 250 schools in North Kivu and Ituri provinces will open… 09/01/2018 Aimaf
Ugandan Activist Bobi Wine Freed from Kampala Hospital A Ugandan legislator allegedly tortured by security officials will be allowed to travel to the United States for medical care,… 08/31/2018 Aimaf
Xenophobic Group Marches in Johannesburg After Violent Killings of Foreigners Xenophobic attacks have surged in South Africa in the past week, with at least four foreigners killed in clashes with… 08/31/2018 Aimaf
Can China’s Big Loans to Africa Continue? Over the past decade, China has extended billions of dollars in loans to African countries, mostly for infrastructure. However, some… 08/31/2018 Aimaf
Uganda Police Shut Down Capital After Opposition Figure Re-Arrested Protests broke out in Uganda's capital Friday after police arrested a prominent opposition figure who was trying to leave the… 08/31/2018 Aimaf