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Friday 05 March 2021 : Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko continue their protests against his arrest and detention on rape charges. Plus the...
Thursday 04 March 2021 : Authorities impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, after a reunion ceremony for the kidnapped girls and their parents...
Wednesday 03 March 2021 : Sixty nuns and 25 priests have died in Tanzania in the last two months after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Catholic Church in the...
Tuesday 02 March 2021 : Nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state a few days ago, have been...
Monday 01 March 2021 : Ivory Coast launches the first widespread Covid vaccine drive under the internationally sponsored Covax scheme, while Ghana’s President...
Friday 26 February 2021 : More than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been abducted in a night-time attack in Zamfara state, in the latest mass abduction targeting...
Thursday 25 February 2021 : Tanzania’s Professor Hulda Swai wins the latest African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for Scientific Excellence. Survivors of...
Wednesday 24 February 2021 : Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria's northern city Maiduguri in Borno state, by using rocket-propelled grenades, which...
Tuesday 23 February 2021 : Rates of COVID-19 infection could be much higher in Nigeria than official figures have previously suggested. That's according to a new...
Monday 22 February 2021 : Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed, along with an Italian officer and a Congolese driver, in...
Friday 19 February 2021 : There has been heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, as opposition leaders defied a ban on public gatherings to protest about...
Thursday 18 February 2021 : Zanzibar’s prominent opposition leader and vice-president Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad has been buried on the island of Pemba after passing...
Wednesday 17 February 2021 : Armed bandits have killed a school pupil and abducted 27 other children in a night-time raid on their boarding school in north-central...
Tuesday 16 February 2021 : The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, together with Alfred Yekatom, are...
Monday 15 February 2021 : The former Nigerian finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has become the first woman and the first African to be appointed as...
Friday 12 February 2021 : Nigeria’s Ogale and Bille communities near the Niger Delta are given the green light by the UK Supreme Court to sue oil giant Shell for...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : Tanzania’s chief government spokesperson has given a rare interview to the BBC, asserting that Covid-19 is under control in the country....
Wednesday 10 February 2021 : There is continued insecurity in northern Nigeria as armed gangs kill as least 23 people in a series of attacks in Kaduna state. The...
Tuesday 09 February 2021 : Ethiopian government announces the closure of two camps housing hundreds of thousands of Eritrean refugees. Our correspondent Kalkidan...
Monday 08 February 2021 : Hopes for a speedy recovery from COVID-19 in South Africa have been damped somewhat after health minister Zweli Mkhize said that it would...
Friday 05 February 2021 : The new transitional prime minister and three-member presidency council will govern Libya until the December election. Plus could it be the...
Thursday 04 February 2021 : The International Criminal Court has found former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sierra...
Wednesday 03 February 2021 : Angola faces widespread condemnation after more than 10 people are reported to have died after police clashed with protesters in the town...
Wednesday 03 February 2021 : [Due to a production error on the previous version of this edition of Africa Today, we are re-publishing this as a correction. This edition...
Wednesday 03 February 2021 : [Due to a production error on the previous version of this edition of Africa Today, we are re-publishing this as a correction. This edition...
Africa Today
BBC World Service
Senegal: Sonko supporters continue protests over arrest
Supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko continue their protests against his arrest and detention on rape charges. Plus the...
Curfew imposed in Nigeria’s Zamfara state
Authorities impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, after a reunion ceremony for the kidnapped girls and their parents...
Tanzanian nuns and clerics dying 'with Covid symptoms'
Sixty nuns and 25 priests have died in Tanzania in the last two months after showing symptoms of coronavirus, the Catholic Church in the...
Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls released
Nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state a few days ago, have been...
Mass Covax vaccination rollouts begin in West Africa
Ivory Coast launches the first widespread Covid vaccine drive under the internationally sponsored Covax scheme, while Ghana’s President...
Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction
More than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been abducted in a night-time attack in Zamfara state, in the latest mass abduction targeting...
Tanzanian scientist wins AU prize
Tanzania’s Professor Hulda Swai wins the latest African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Award for Scientific Excellence. Survivors of...
Nigerian militants launch rocket attack on Maiduguri
Militants have killed at least 10 people in Nigeria's northern city Maiduguri in Borno state, by using rocket-propelled grenades, which...
Nigeria COVID infection rate may be the highest on the continent
Rates of COVID-19 infection could be much higher in Nigeria than official figures have previously suggested. That's according to a new...
DR Congo attack kills Italian Ambassador
Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed, along with an Italian officer and a Congolese driver, in...
Gunfire in Somali capital amid election protests
There has been heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, as opposition leaders defied a ban on public gatherings to protest about...
Zanzibar vice-president laid to rest
Zanzibar’s prominent opposition leader and vice-president Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad has been buried on the island of Pemba after passing...
Gunmen abduct pupils in Niger state
Armed bandits have killed a school pupil and abducted 27 other children in a night-time raid on their boarding school in north-central...
CAR ex-militia leaders on trial for war crimes
The former head of the Central African Republic (CAR) football federation, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, together with Alfred Yekatom, are...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: WTO gets its first African boss
The former Nigerian finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has become the first woman and the first African to be appointed as...
Nigerian communities 'can sue Shell in UK'
Nigeria’s Ogale and Bille communities near the Niger Delta are given the green light by the UK Supreme Court to sue oil giant Shell for...
Tanzania: Government claims Covid-19 is under control
Tanzania’s chief government spokesperson has given a rare interview to the BBC, asserting that Covid-19 is under control in the country....
'Bandits' kill 23 in volatile northern Nigerian state
There is continued insecurity in northern Nigeria as armed gangs kill as least 23 people in a series of attacks in Kaduna state. The...
Ethiopia to shut refugee camps in Tigray
Ethiopian government announces the closure of two camps housing hundreds of thousands of Eritrean refugees. Our correspondent Kalkidan...
South Africa stops AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out
Hopes for a speedy recovery from COVID-19 in South Africa have been damped somewhat after health minister Zweli Mkhize said that it would...
Libya has new interim government
The new transitional prime minister and three-member presidency council will govern Libya until the December election. Plus could it be the...
Uganda: ICC finds former LRA commander guilty of war crimes
The International Criminal Court has found former LRA commander Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sierra...
Anger over Angola’s crackdown on protests
Angola faces widespread condemnation after more than 10 people are reported to have died after police clashed with protesters in the town...
Ethiopia's Tigray: Humanitarian aid access starts trickling in
[Due to a production error on the previous version of this edition of Africa Today, we are re-publishing this as a correction. This edition...
Ethiopia's Tigray: Humanitarian aid access starts trickling in
[Due to a production error on the previous version of this edition of Africa Today, we are re-publishing this as a correction. This edition...
