As Johannesburg gears up to host this weekend’s G20 summit of rich and developing nations, the US has once again said that it won’t participate and is putting pressure on South Africa not to issue at joint declaration at the end of the meeting.

Earlier this year, Sierra Leone’s world renowned Tacugama chimpanzee sanctuary shut down to protest the destruction of surrounding forest in the Western Area Peninsula National Park. Five months later, it’s once again welcoming visitors to the sanctuary.

The two countries are due to sign documents to start the upgrade of the Tazara railway line linking Zambia’s mines to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam.

Nigerian authorities have shut schools in five districts of central Kwara state, over fears they could be targeted by armed gangs after a deadly attack on a church in the state earlier this week.

Amanuel Walid, known as Tewelde Goitom, is accused of running a migration route to Europe via Libya.

He also briefly addressed the church investigation into Spanish Bishop Rafael Zornoza, who faces allegations of sexual abuse dating back nearly three decades. The bishop denies the accusations and is cooperating with the canonical probe while undergoing cancer treatment.

The world’s richest nations are backsliding in their support for global development, according to a new study by the Commitment to Development Index.

They made it through after beating Nicaragua 2-0, defying the odds to qualify for the tournament for the first time in 51 years.

Nigeria’s High Court has convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on seven terrorism-related charges. The judge in Abuja on Thursday ruled that prosecutors provided “incontroverted evidence” that Kanu’s broadcasts incited deadly attacks on security forces and citizens in the country’s south east.

There have been rumours of a rift between the two men, arising from President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s restructuring of the presidential coalition.

From automated vertical farms to soil-free film farming, Japan is developing technologies that could revolutionise global agriculture, reducing land, water, and labour use while empowering small farmers.

English football team Arsenal says it will terminate its partnership with Visit Rwanda at the end of this season, when the brand will cease to appear on the Gunners’ sleeves. Arsenal has come under fire over Rwanda’s human rights record and alleged sponsorship of M23 rebels in eastern DRC.

Authourities in Nigeria’s Kwara State have shut down all schools across Ifelodun, Ekiti, Irepodun, Isin and Oke Ero following new security threats in the area.

A series of posters and illustrations projected onto buildings demanded urgent action on issues including climate accountability, the global debt crisis, and women’s rights.

Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

Africa is witnessing major shifts in economics, education, and community development this week—from rising market fears in Nigeria to life-changing opportunities for East African students and women-led energy innovation in Zanzibar. Here are the stories making headlines.

Ghizlane Chebbak was crowned the Confederation of African Football’s top female player at a star-studded ceremony in Rabat.

Soccer fans celebrated at Curaçao International Airport in Willemstad on Wednesday as the country’s men’s soccer team arrived home after making World Cup history as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify.

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula is stopping foreigners from accessing public health clinics in South Africa.

Security forces and hunters have intensified efforts to find and rescue the Nigerian schoolgirls, local officials said. Security teams swept nearby forests where gangs often hide, while others were deployed along major roads leading to the school.

For the first time since 1998, a Moroccan has won the African Ballon d’Or and this year, the honor goes to Achraf Hakimi.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince urged him to take action to help end Sudan’s devastating civil war, raising the prospect of new US involvement in a conflict that has already claimed more than 40,000 lives.

Uganda’s opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) says police blocked its staff from accessing a planned campaign venue in the key northern city of Arua on Wednesday.

At a parade on Wednesday, national police commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, told officers the country was depending on them for the summit to go smoothly.

The United Nations estimates that over 2,000 pregnant women have fled El-Fasher since the Rapid Support Forces seized the city in late October.

Earlier this month, the US leader said he would send troops into the country if Abuja did not protect the religious community.

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Macron will visit Mauritius, South Africa, Gabon and Angola for both bilateral meetings and multilateral summits.

President Bola Tinubu calls for swift action to return the schoolgirls to safety.

Umaro Sissoco Embaló is pushing to make history this month by becoming Guinea-Bissau’s first sitting president in 30 years to win re-election.

The 28,000 ancient texts returned to Timbuktu in August after 13 years away.

Gabon’s Specialized Criminal Court slaps nine of Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo former aides with sentences ranging between two to fifteen years for embezzlement of public funds, corruption, and money laundering.

In South Africa’s oldest township, volunteers in wetsuits jump into the thigh-deep water of the polluted Jukskei River to untangle a net that’s designed to trap garbage but damaged by heavy rains.

More than 20 girls were kidnapped from a school in the town of Maga in the north-western Kebbi State on Monday.

A major INTERPOL operation in West Africa has resulted in 62 arrests and the seizure of weapons, explosives, drugs, counterfeit medicines, and stolen vehicles.

It beat them 4-0 in a friendly international in Tangier on Tuesday bringing its successive wins to 18.

The Sahel accounts for over half of all global terrorism deaths, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

Nearly 477,000 children in Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica are still facing major disruptions in their education, three weeks after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean.

US Republican lawmakers say 100,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, a figure that is likely inflated.

Member of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Salah al-Din Adam Tur, inspected shelters for displaced people from el-Fasher in the city of al-Dabbah in the Northern State on Monday.