The Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) warned on Thursday that Ebola is still spreading through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and while cases have declined in the original outbreak region of Ituri province, more infections are being found in the neighboring provinces of North Kivu and Haut-Uele.
Africell, the only American-owned telecommunications company in Africa, will receive a $99.6 million EXIM loan to compete with China.
The U.N. voted Friday to promote reworked map projections that enhance Africa’s size, a move it claims will “more accurately reflect the true size of continents” – the culmination of an African-led campaign against the 16th-century Mercator projection, still the most widely used depiction in the world.
A U.N. committee warned Monday a host countries are legally bound to offer immediate cash settlements as reparations for the transatlantic slave trade alongside other yet to be determined measures – including, but not limited to “truth commissions” – to address the “enduring legacy of racial discrimination” it cautions still envelops the world to this day.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday issued a formal apology to the president of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, for violence perpetrated against Mozambican nationals during South Africa’s recent anti-migrant protests.
The South African Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it has written to the governments of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria to request reimbursement for the $18 million cost of repatriating thousands of illegal migrants.
American citizens are “other people,” according to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, who used a CBS interview to praise Haitian migrants for revitalizing Springfield, Ohio.
What is now the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is swamping eastern Congo with the latest fatality numbers racing past 1,500 according to official data released Thursday.
Socialist Melat Kiros (D), who unseated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette (D) in Colorado’s first congressional district Democrat primary last month, says the United States must elect more immigrants specifically from the “Global South” to usher in a “reckoning” with the global world order.
The Ebola epidemic racing through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading faster and proving more virulent than efforts to contain it, global medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned on Wednesday.
Investigators in Zimbabwe have arrested a man who allegedly worked with a Russian accomplice to unlawfully conscript young Zimbabweans.
The captain of the Cape Verde, Africa, soccer team is being accused of raping his female translator just before the World Cup
An American company called Virtus Minerals has acquired two cobalt and copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with strong support from the Trump administration, taking a major step toward developing critical mineral supply lines that are not controlled by China.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a massive increase in global climate spending, arguing that governments and financial institutions must devote significantly more resources to addressing climate-related challenges.
WASHINGTON — Macky Sall, the former President of Senegal and a leading candidate to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations, told Breitbart News exclusively he supports American President Donald Trump’s push to reform the UN and wants to, as Trump and his team say, “Make the UN Great Again.”
The Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda has now killed over 200 people, and the number of confirmed cases surged by 38% in one week.
Jean Kaseya, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC) warned on Tuesday that the current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could become the worst ever recorded since so many of the people who came into contact with Ebola victims have yet to be traced and tested.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with the new Syrian government is “developing very actively,” and could lead to Russia keeping some military bases that it feared losing when its client Bashar Assad was overthrown in December 2024.
The administration is preparing to drastically reduce the number of African embassies that will be able to process visas for migrants.
Indian refineries are seeking alternative sources of oil from Latin America and Africa due to Iran’s disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest example of major energy importers pursuing alternative supply chains to avoid the easily-threatened Hormuz chokepoint.
The worst fears of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have been realized. The career Ethiopian bureaucrat confirmed late Monday the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts in Africa and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
A vaccine to tackle the runaway Ebola virus now surging through central Africa can be developed within 100 days, an international disease response group vowed Friday.
The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in the Congo (DRC) began much earlier than previously suspected.
President Donald Trump said on Monday he was “concerned” about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), because it could have a “breakout” beyond the current infection area.
CBS News reported on Sunday that least six American citizens have been exposed to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Three of them encountered a “high-risk contact or exposure” and one is displaying symptoms of illness.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement on Friday that attributed 246 suspected infections and 65 deaths to a new Ebola outbreak in the remote Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The new White House Counterterrorism (CT) Strategy document looks to seize the initiative from terrorists and criminal cartels by taking aggressive action against hostile regimes, keeping America’s borders secure to minimize threats at home, and pushing malign foreign influence out of the Western Hemisphere.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said on Monday that the risk to the general public was “low” from the outbreak of deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship currently isolated off the coast of West Africa.
The Nigerian government on Monday summoned South Africa’s top diplomatic envoy to complain about “xenophobic” anti-migrant protests, following in the footsteps of a similar complaint from Ghana and Mozambique.
Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te arrived in Eswatini on Saturday, defiantly proclaiming Taiwan’s right to engage with friends and allies despite intensive efforts from China to block his trip.
Over 300 people marched against mass migration and undocumented immigrants in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.
Pope Leo XIV urged young men in Cameroon not to take the dangerous migration route to Europe and instead develop their own country.
A court in Nairobi on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national named Zhang Kequn to a year in prison, plus a fine of one million shillings ($7,737), for trying to smuggle live ants out of Kenya.
A drone strike in the town of Kutum, located in the north of Sudan’s Darfur region, killed at least 30 civilians on Wednesday. According to the United Nations, both women and children were among the victims.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Sunday it has agreed to accept migrants from third countries who have been deported from the United States. The first wave of deportees is expected to arrive later this month.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told Breitbart News in a long-form exclusive on-camera interview in early February in his U.S. Senate office that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had its plans for global domination through the Belt and Road Initiative disrupted by President Donald Trump.
A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, convicted two Chinese citizens on Wednesday on charges of “cyber-terrorism,” accused and pleading guilty of participating in a massive “cryptocurrency, investment and romance” fraud scheme.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, led by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), introduced a bill on Tuesday that would designate Russian mercenary groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO).
At least 200 people reportedly died in a landslide at the Rubaya mines in eastern Congo on Wednesday amid heavy rains.
A leader in an agency linked to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will plead guilty to accepting bribes.
