BRAZZAVILLE, March 15 (Reuters) – Congo Republic votes on Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to extend 82-year-old Denis Sassou Nguesso’s decades-long rule by another five years, with limited active opposition and little uncertainty about the result. Two of the country’s best‑known opposition leaders remain in prison, while others are in exile. Several opposition...

Several residents of the Egbeda-Egga community in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, one of the North Central states, have been rendered homeless after a rainstorm reportedly destroyed more than 40 residential buildings. Reports from the community on Thursday indicated that the unexpected rainfall on Wednesday was accompanied by a violent storm that destroyed...

The set of Al Jazeera’s Head to Head is not built for comfort. It is built for reckoning. The studio lights are clinical. The audience is global. And Mehdi Hasan, the programme’s razor-edged anchor, does not arrive with soft questions. He arrives with documents. The episode aired on March 6, 2026. Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser...

NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters) – A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi’s main airport this week amid a rise in cases of smuggling of the insects in Kenya. Chinese national Zhang Kequn, 27, was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Tuesday while he was trying...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) – Ghana intends to propose a United Nations resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime in the history of humankind” and calling for reparations, and expects broad support despite resistance in Europe. The West African nation, a prominent advocate of reparations on the continent, plans to table the proposal at...

DAKAR, March 12 (Reuters) – Senegal’s National Assembly late on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality. The law – passed by 135 votes to zero, with three abstentions – fulfils a campaign promise of the government that...

March 11 (Reuters) – Drone strikes hit Goma in east Congo on Wednesday, killing at least three people including a French aid worker, the first such attack in the city since AFC/M23 rebels seized it last year, according to the group and the U.N. The AFC/M23 blamed the attack on the Congolese army, saying in...