The state election body said Idriss had won outright with over 61 per cent of the vote, but main challenger Succes Masra also declared victory
Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried under the rubble of concrete after a multi-storey residential complex that was being built collapsed.
A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year concluded city authorities were aware of serious safety issues four years before the blaze.
Coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania have been buffeted by heavy rains and high winds from Tropical Cyclone Hidaya.
Asylum Aid launched a legal challenge against the UK government’s policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, which PM Rishi Sunak aims to launch within weeks.
The arrival of Russian personnel in the West African country came in the wake of a decision by Niger’s junta to expel US forces from the country.
Out with the Zimbabwe dollar, in with the ZiG. Zimbabwe on Tuesday started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by depreciation and often outright rejection by the people.
The latest deaths bring the toll from heavy rains and flooding since last month to more than 100.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
Mali is ill-equipped to cope with heatwaves and frequently suffers from electricity cuts, making it difficult to rely on fans or air conditioners.
Kenya’s defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, President William Ruto said.
Zando Global was launched on Thursday in the hopes of taking on the fast-fashion Chinese e-commerce retailers at home.
Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted a year ago, sparking one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The owners of MV Abdullah say they have struck a deal with the pirates and that all the crew are safe.
The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead, and 22 others have been rescued from a shipwreck off Djibouti on a popular route to Yemen.
Makeshift ferry was carrying about 130 people when it sank. Most passengers were trying to escape mainland because of disinformation about cholera, a government official said.
Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook reached the northernmost point of Africa on Sunday, almost a year after he set off from its southern tip.
A week of national mourning has begun as the nation remembers the victims shot, beaten or hacked to death by Hutu extremists, fuelled by anti-Tutsi propaganda broadcasts.
Muslims from Canada to the UK are seeking to move to multicultural Malaysia for its pro-Palestinian stance and ‘liberating’ environment for adherents of the faith.
Rwanda has made it a criminal offence to withhold information about a previously unknown mass grave though they are still mostly found by accident, leading to new arrests and traumatising survivors all over again.
Zimbabwe’s declaration follows similar actions by neighbouring Zambia and Malawi, where drought linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon has scorched crops.