Africa

While Nigeria’s players are used to fighting hard on the field, their fiercest battles often come off it. In recent years disputes over unpaid bonuses, poor travel arrangements and a lack of support from the Nigeria Football Federation have disrupted camps, strained relationships and made headlines for all the wrong …

A Ugandan military helicopter with eight people on board has crashed at the main international airport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, an aviation official has told the BBC. The state-run news agency reported that a fire broke out after the helicopter crashed at the Aden Adde International Airport, but it had …

Jacob Boswall BBC Monitoring Getty Images It has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to record highs in 2025. In a world of tariffs and international conflict, gold appeals to investors as one …

Jihadist fighters have launched a series of simultaneous attacks on military posts across numerous towns in Mali – the third major assault on the army over the last month. Mali’s army said it repelled Tuesday morning’s attacks, allegedly “neutralising” more than 80 militants, without saying if there were any other …

The Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up in the district of Minembwe, close to the country’s borders with Rwanda and Burundi. It is the latest violent incident in the region since a ceasefire deal was signed in …

Some 76 Ghanaians who were trafficked to Nigeria under a fraudulent recruitment scheme have been rescued, Ghanaian police say. The victims, mostly young men, were lured with promises of football contracts with top foreign teams, job placements abroad or assistance with visa processing. Upon arrival, their travel documents and mobile …

Liberia’s former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body believed to be dumped in a mass grave. Ten days after the president’s killing, following trials by a kangaroo court, 13 of his cabinet …

Anne Soy Deputy Africa editor BBC Aged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan’s western region of Darfur. “I was bleeding on the way,” she told the BBC, before hastening to add that she saw people who were …

Civic rights groups say at least seven people have been killed during a crackdown on protesters who are calling for Togo’s leader, Faure Gnassingbé, to step down and release political prisoners. Seven bodies were recovered from rivers in the capital city Lomé, according to a coalition called Le Front Citoyen …

A street vendor shot in the head by police during protests about two weeks ago has been declared brain dead in hospital, his family has said. Boniface Kariuki’s family said medics had informed them that his brain had ceased to function, although his heart was beating with life-machine support. “We …

One of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen, Aminu Dantata, is set to be buried in Saudi Arabia later after he died on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates. Business mogul Dantata, 94, an uncle of Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, leaves three wives, 21 children and 121 grandchildren. His body was transferred …

Morocco hosts the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations from 5-26 July. After finishing as runners-up at the previous edition in 2022, a tournament which they also hosted, the Atlas Lionesses are once more expected to challenge for the trophy. Kawtar Bentaleb, a goalkeeper for top-flight club FUS Rabat, says …

Wycliffe Muia BBC News, Kampala Robert Katende For more than two decades, Robert Katende has been getting children in Katwe to take chess seriously A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda’s capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions – …

Courage in sport is often defined by moments on the pitch – be it last-minute goals, bruising tackles or improbable comebacks. The word has taken on a deeper meaning for Nigerian footballer Blessing Illivieda over the past few weeks. On 23 May, just days before she was due to report …

The signing of a peace agreement between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington has elicited mixed reactions, with the former Congolese president, Joseph Kabila, describing it as “nothing more than a trade agreement”. The deal signed on Friday demanded the “disengagement, disarmament and conditional …

Priya Sippy & Anne Okumu BBC News, London & Lilongwe Jack McBrams A chunk of Suzanna Kathumba’s meagre salary goes on school fees, leaving little for other essentials Suzanna Kathumba, a domestic worker in Malawi, spends every day thinking of ways she can economise to make her salary of 80,000 …

Both sides of the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have committed to disarming and disengaging their alleged proxies. But there are dozens of non-state armed groups active in the region and it’s not clear whether all of them will adhere to the ceasefire. Just hours before the deal …

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a peace deal in Washington aimed at ending decades of devastating conflict between the two neighbours, and potentially granting the US lucrative mineral access. The deal demands the “disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration” of armed groups fighting in eastern DR Congo. …

South Africa’s criminal intelligence chief Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo has been arrested and has appeared in court on allegations of fraud and corruption. Gen Khumalo was picked up on Thursday evening after landing at the main international airport in Johannesburg by members of anti-corruption unit, local media reported. He made his …

The Democratic Alliance (DA), the second biggest party in South Africa’s coalition government, has given President Cyril Ramaphosa until Saturday to fire errant officials from his cabinet or else “all bets are off”. Ramaphosa removed Deputy Trade Minister Andrew Whitfield on Wednesday, ostensibly over an unsanctioned trip abroad earlier this …