Decades-old venue in Ethiopia’s capital is a repository for the country’s culture
After a decade of growth during the 2010s, the country has suffered setbacks, including the pandemic and a severe drought
The Burundian presidency pushed back elections by 10 days as police clashed with protesters, shooting and killing a soldier.
The world’s youngest nation marks its third anniversary of independence while a civil war rages and its citizens remain at risk of severe hunger.
Paul Kagame’s RPF, which has run the country since ending the genocide nearly 20 years ago, are headed for a predicted landslide win.
In the run-up to Kenya’s elections in March, people still displaced have camped around the town of Nakuru in Rift Valley and fear renewed violence.
Nearly a decade into the war in Afghanistan, opium poppies are still the major crop for many farmers and a big source of income for the Taliban.
The first round of Congo’s legislative elections was marked by chaos on Sunday, with long delays, protesters crying foul and about 40 smaller opposition parties boycotting the ballot. In neighbourhoods of the capital, Brazzaville, and the economic capital, Pointe-Noire, several polling stations had still not opened by noon.
President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s ruling party is expected to be the big winner of legislative elections on Sunday in Congo, where opposition complaints have had little impact. Sassou Nguesso has been back in controversy this week after French prosecutors started investigating allegations that he used embezzled state funds to buy luxury Paris apartments.
Young women captured by the government-backed Janjaweed militia, who are accused of a reign of terror in Sudan’s Darfur region, say they were used as sex slaves and servants. Two young women, one carrying a baby, who arrived in the abandoned village of Kour, said they had been kidnapped then released in the middle of the desert because the militia did not want to be burdened by the child.