A first body was recovered Friday from the rubble of an 18-storey building that collapsed a week ago in Nairobi, as 16 people remain missing. The body of a woman was found badly crushed beneath concrete and steel at the construction site in Eastleigh, a busy commercial district of the Kenyan capital. Authorities are using thermal imaging cameras to help… Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ghanaian counterpart John Dramani Mahama for bilateral talks a day after the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow. Ghanaian media reported that Accra has initiated discussions with Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Rosatom, for the establishment of the country’s first nuclear power station. President Mahama told the summit that Ghana was pursuing a diversified energy mix… Read More

Multiple drone strikes have hit northern regions of Ethiopia since Thursday, killing at least 25 civilians, including children, witnesses and a medical source told AFP on Friday. The Ethiopian government has been fighting rebels in the states of Amhara and Tigray over the past month, and has used its large supply of drones to win a decisive advantage. But it… Read More

Senegal is kicking off the Youth Olympic Games on Saturday, bringing an Olympic event to Africa for the first time as the continent seeks a bigger role in international sporting competitions. About 2,700 young athletes aged 14 to 17 will compete through Nov. 13 in the capital, Dakar, the nearby city of Diamniadio and the beach resort of Saly. Hundreds… Read More

A convoy of heavily armed Salvadoran troops was seen in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Friday. They are part of 2,000 troops that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele deployed to the embattled country this week. The deployment of Salvadoran troops followed a gang attack on four Salvadoran members of the Gang Suppression Force who went missing. The Haitian… Read More

Deaths in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have topped 5,000 as the country grapples with the relentless spread of the disease and cases are recorded in other African countries, the latest government data on Saturday shows. Data from the Congolese Ministry of Health showed that the disease has killed 5,026 people out of 10,351 infected, at a nearly 50% lethality rate. The… Read More