Guinea-Bissau’s junta said in a decree published on Wednesday that the country would hold presidential and legislative elections on December 6.

Egypt “announces its acceptance of the invitation and its commitment to fulfilling the relevant legal and constitutional procedures,” the statement said, praising Trump’s Middle East policies.

Northern Nigeria has been the hardest-hit part of the country, with a surge in kidnappings for ransom by gunmen across the northwest and north-central regions over the recent months, alongside an insurgency in the northeast.

Mambé previously served as prime minister from 2023 until his resignation on January 7, following Ivory Coast’s parliamentary elections in December.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, the US president described the self-governing Danish territory as a “piece of ice” that is “part of North America.”

Standing before an audience of global powerbrokers, Macron wore blue reflective aviator sunglasses indoors. The choice was instantly noticed, debated and, on social media, thoroughly dissected.

Steve Witkoff says he and Jared Kushner will holds talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

According to the Constitution, the presidential election must be held at least 30 days and no more than 40 days before the end of the current presidential term.

El-Sissi spoke during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. He lauded the US president’s efforts to achieve lasting peace in Gaza.

A source says the Security and Defence Council grouping military and allied government officials will meet on Wednesday to discuss the plan.

Ethiopian forces killed around forty fighters from their own side in a drone strike in the insurgency-hit Amhara region on January 15, a nurse and a local official told AFP on Tuesday.

Bobi Wine, who is currently in hiding, has alleged widespread fraud during the vote that saw incumbent President Yoweri Museveni win a seventh term in office.

Ivory Coast says it will buy the entire volume of cocoa stockpiled by the country’s cooperatives in order to ensure producers are paid. The news comes as cocoa fell to its lowest price in two years.

South Africa’s Human Settlements Minister, Thembi Simelane, says the death toll from the recent floods in Limpopo and Mpumalanga has risen to 38, as government accelerates emergency housing support for affected communities.

Nigerian chef Hilda Baci has earned her third Guinness World Records (GWR) title after Guinness recognised her for achieving the largest serving of rice.

All four deaths occurred in Moknine in Tunisia’s Monastir governorate. A fifth person died in flooding in northwestern Algeria.

Five soldiers and one police officer have been killed in an ambush in northwest Nigeria, the Nigerian army said on Tuesday.

A specialised police unit in Port-au-Prince came under attack on Monday as it patrolled the streets of the Haitian capital.

Sadio Mané persuaded teammates to come back and finish the game after they’d stormed off the pitch in protest against a penalty decision.

As global tourism hits a record high, Africa saw an 8 percent rise in arrivals in 2025 to 81 million, with Morocco and Tunisia posting particularly strong results.

The United Nations says floods in Mozambique have spiralled into a rapidly escalating emergency.

Wildfires burning in Franschhoek, east of Cape Town flared up on Tuesday, leaving fire crews scrambling to contain the blaze once again.

Desperately-needed humanitarian aid has arrived in Port Sudan as the fighting in the country rages on. The war, which broke out in 2023, has triggered what the U.N describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba has been extradited by Togo to his home country, Burkina Faso, where he’s accused by the junta of plotting a string of coups and assassination attempts.

Following their victory over Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal’s Teranga Lions held a victory parade in the capital Dakar, drawing tens of thousands of fans.

It has undone decades of progress, notably in fighting HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis.

The family of murdered Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba said Tuesday they hope to get justice, as a Belgian court weighs prosecuting the sole surviving suspect over the 1961 killing.

Rescue operations are underway in South Africa and Mozambique, where flooding has claimed dozens of lives. It comes after weeks of heavy rains have lashed the two neighbouring countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump has turned his fire on a deal between Britain and Mauritius to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic U.S. military base.

Anthony Joshua’s two associates died in the December accident while he was hospitalised with injuries.

Morocco’s Prime Minister has held discussions with a U.S. delegation as the two countries seek to bolster strategic relations. It comes after Morocco accepted an invite to join Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’.

Morocco’s Prince Moulay Rachid welcomed the country’s national football team at the Royal Guest Palace in Rabat on Monday, a day after their defeat against Senegal in the AFCON final.

Nigerian police have rejected reports that worshippers were abducted from churches in Kaduna state on Sunday, insisting that no such attack took place.

Millions of Ethiopian Christians have been celebrating Timket, or the Orthodox festival of Epiphany.

The ICC deputy prosecutor told the United Nations that civilians are being subjected to collective torture.

Armed men with “sophisticated weapons” attacked at least two churches in Nigeria’s Kaduna State on Sunday, according to local clergy members and police.

Burkina Faso’s former transitional president and the alleged mastermind behind various coup plots in the country was arrested in neighbouring Togo and expelled, sources said on Monday.

Weeks of heavy rains in southern and central Mozambique have affected more than half-a-million people, the United Nations said on Monday.

Chad says seven of its soldiers were killed in the skirmish at the Sudanese border, with an official blaming the RSF.

Weeks of heavy rains in southern and central Mozambique have affected more than half-a-million people, the United Nations said on Monday.