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Ukraine reported fresh civilian casualties on 8 June after Russian drone strikes hit residential areas in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy.

Hundreds of anti-migrant protesters marched through a township outside Johannesburg on Monday, one day after South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa attempted to quell rising tensions in a televised address.

Several hundred people kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier this year from a village in the northeastern state of Borno were freed over the weekend, a senator and local youth leader said Sunday

360 people abducted by Boko Haram in southern Nigeria have been freed by the national army

Gambian Vice President Muhammad B.S. Jallow commended north China's Tianjin Port for its zero-carbon, fully automated terminal as a model of how economic growth can align with environmental protection, saying the experience offers lessons for The Gambia

A twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug has arrived in South Africa. The rollout of the drug, lenacapavir, is underway in the country that needs it the most, about a-year-and-a-half after US aid cuts hit some of its HIV programmes.

A boat carrying dozens of migrants attempting to cross the sea from Africa to Europe reportedly capsized in the central Mediterranean Sea on Sunday

Historic buildings became giant digital canvases as Burundi hosted Africa’s first-ever AFRICA ON MAPPING Festival. Combining video projections, dance, poetry and technology, the event transformed Bujumbura into a hub of immersive artistic expression.

Environmental activists and conservationists staged a protest in Nairobi on Monday against plans to construct a parking facility inside Nairobi National Park.

Canada’s largest city will host six World Cup games, starting Friday when the host country’s team takes on Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the Republic of Congo, welcomed designers, models and fashion enthusiasts from across the continent for the 13th edition of the Carrousel International de la Mode, held from June 4 to 7, 2026.

According health officials, climate change is supercharging existing hotspots and lengthening transmission windows, fuelling far more intense outbreaks

Nearly nine years after the killing of two United Nations experts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's High Military Court has delivered its final verdict.

Central African Republic is the latest African nation to agree to accept third-country deportees from the United States, according to a report from Reuters.

A growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could surpass 20,000 cases within months if efforts to isolate infected people fail, according to new U.S. health projections. Experts warn the spread of a rare virus strain and ongoing conflict could fuel a major health crisis.

Oil prices jumped more than 3% on Monday after Iran launched missiles at Israel, raising fears of a wider regional conflict and renewed disruption to energy supplies. The gains came despite an OPEC+ decision to increase production quotas for July.

Israel said Monday that Iran had launched missiles targeting it, hours after Israel launched airstrikes targeting central and western Iran in response to missile fire from Tehran. The exchange of strikes threatened to drag the wider Middle East back into a regional war.

South Africa's president promised Sunday to act on what he called concerns over illegal migration following a rise in anti-immigrant protests and sentiment in Africa's most advanced economy, with other nations claiming their citizens have been targeted in xenophobic attacks.