Africa

By Bridie Witton Leading economist says Scandinavian nation's experience shows UK Government should reverse plans to tighten immigration Sweden took in more refugees per capita than any other country in Europe last year Getty Immigration has helped fuel Sweden's biggest economic boom in five years, new figures...

By Harun Maruf WASHINGTON — Armed attackers believed to be members of al-Shabab have attacked a residential housing area in the Kenya town of Mandera near the border with Somalia. Governor of Mandera County Ali Roba confirmed the attack on Twitter. He said six people were...

butted out, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki thinks Africa is in trouble. The continent needs progressive leaders and such leaders are simply nowhere to be found, he says. Mbeki made the remarks at a question-and-answer session organized for the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute by the Thabo...

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa. It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to the Red Sea port of Djibouti - a stretch of more than 750km (466 miles). Travelling at 120km/h, the new service cuts the journey time...

Allegations linking police to systematic extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of suspects a biased, palpable misrepresentation of facts and lack objectivity, the government has said. In the first response to increasing cases of executions of suspects in the hands of police, Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery...

Ethiopian police have arrested a blogger who criticised the government, especially its handling of the ongoing protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions. Seyoum Teshome, an outspoken university lecturer who has been quoted frequently by foreign media outlets about the anti-government protests, was detained on...

Governance across Africa has improved very little over the past decade as deteriorating safety and rule of law have held back progress made in other areas such as human rights or economic opportunities, a survey said on Monday. The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG)...

Violence erupts again during protests after 52 people were crushed to death when police fired tear gas at a festival. Oromo activists called for "five days of rage" after the stampede Demonstrators have clashed with police in central Ethiopia a day after a deadly stampede at...

By Mohamed Adam Quota system says 30 percent of seats in parliament in upcoming elections reserved for women. MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali clerics council has called for a quota for the presence of women in the parliament after the upcoming elections, arguing that the provision...

By PATRICK LANG'AT and NYAMBEGA GISESA The Kenyan government has submitted the name of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to be the next head of the African Union (AU) Commission. Ms Mohamed will face Agapito Mba Mokuy of Equatorial Guinea, Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal and...