Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has delivered the wrong speech at the opening of a new session of parliament, repeating an…
Browsing: Al Jazeera
Cameroon striker Albert Ebosse died over a year ago after a domestic football league match in Algeria. He was hit…
The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has replaced the long-standing head of Algeria’s military intelligence agency, in his latest move…
Team captain Bornor is an amputee who plays football in Sierra Leone to cope with the horrors of war he…
It is one of the greatest fossil discoveries of our time, a trove of bones hidden deep inside a cave,…
The head of Burundi’s armed forces has survived an assassination attempt in the capital Bujumbura, police said, adding that at…
Guinea Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed his two-day-old cabinet after the Supreme Court ruled that his appointment of…
Archaeologists in South Africa have announced the discovery of a new human species, a find they say could change our…
Rwanda’s Supreme Court has said it will hear a case on whether the country’s President Paul Kagame should be allowed…
“[Sport] is a powerful tool for progress and for development,” according to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In post-genocide Rwanda, Felicite…
Across the world, almost 1.2bn people live in areas where water is physically scarce and this has an enormous impact…
The al-Shabab group has taken control of two towns in two days in southwestern Somalia, an official and the group…
Al Jazeera’s Inside Story is in the Moroccan capital Rabat, where voters have cast their votes in the first regional and…
A rebel leader known as “The Terminator” has told judges trying him at the International Criminal Court in The Hague…
The measles epidemic spreading through the Katanga province in the DR Congo has to be halted within the next sixty…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned a film about Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of women…
Unlike some of its West African neighbours, Gambia has enjoyed relative stability, portrayed in tourist brochures as an idyllic holiday…
Since China’s devaluation of the yuan last month, an estimated $5tn has been wiped off global stock markets. Jolting financial…
Al-Shabab fighters in Somalia have killed “scores” of African Union troops in an attack south of capital, Mogadishu, a spokesman…
Six soldiers have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province, a region where Rwandan Hutu…