Africa

Zimbabwe has agreed to a staff-monitored programme with the International Monetary Fund, a senior official said on Friday — a tentative first step on the way to a closer engagement with the fund and an eventual loan programme.

Ghana's finance minister proposed reducing a mining levy by two percentage points to facilitate a new gold royalty regime, which ranges from 5% to 12% based on gold prices

It had been plundered from Egypt, most likely during the 2011 Arab Spring unrest

Security services have now rescued all 166 worshippers who were kidnapped by gunmen during attacks on two churches in northern Nigeria last month, a Christian group said on Thursday.

Somaliland anticipates a trade deal with Israel, offering mineral rights in exchange for Israeli technology

Acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two more areas of North Darfur, Sudan, a global hunger monitor said on Thursday, amid a civil war that has displaced millions and triggered waves of ethnically charged violence.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has deployed an army battalion to Kaiama district in the central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed 170 people in an overnight attack, his office said on Thursday.

The three judges said the applicants did not have a direct interest in the matter

MSF says one of its staff members had suffered minor injuries in the strike

Morocco urged residents of flood‑prone areas in the country’s northwestern plains to leave immediately on Wednesday amid rising threats of inundation from heavy rain, swollen rivers and the release of more water from full dams.

Tunisian police arrested legislator Ahmed Saidani on Wednesday, two of his colleagues said, in what appears to be part of an escalating crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied.

The AFC/M23 rebel leader in the DRC claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Kisangani's airport, describing it as a warning to the government

The Sudanese army says it broke a years-long siege on the city of Kadugli on Tuesday, potentially providing tens of thousands of people a reprieve from famine and signalling a shift in the war’s momentum.

The most prominent son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been killed, said sources close to the family, his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi and Libyan media on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump has signed a one-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), preserving duty-free access for eligible African exports to the US until the end of 2026.