Africa

The captain of the Cape Verde, Africa, soccer team is being accused of raping his female translator just before the World Cup

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two more countries in Africa have announced they are imposing a travel ban on U.S. citizens in response to an identical policy instituted by the Trump administration that will take effect on January 1.

Israel formally recognized Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state on Friday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the move “historic” and saying it reflects a shared commitment to stability, peace, and regional cooperation “in the spirit of the Abraham Accords.”

WASHINGTON — The foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) told Breitbart News exclusively that her country’s government is “very enthusiastic” about the fact that in their view President Donald Trump “fully deserves” to win the Nobel Peace Prize this coming year.

During a recent Lewiston, Maine city council meeting, an African migrant declared to the council and mayor, “I’m the mayor now,” footage that is going viral online as it resembles a popular meme from the film Captain Phillips.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder reinvented himself as a creepy advocate for climate alarmism and other leftist causes, expressed concern over the projected increase in preventable child deaths, blaming them on cuts in global health funding by the Trump Administration.

A decade of Somali migration to the United States was plagued with mass fraud, the federal government and a retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official previously revealed.

Nonkululeko Patricia Mantula, a 39-year-old host on South Africa’s SAFM state radio network, was arrested and brought into court on Monday to face charges of recruiting South African men to fight for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Two sailors have been found dead on a yacht off the coast of South Africa after an incident that may have involved pirates.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday suspended the nation of Guinea-Bissau from all decision-making roles after its civilian government was overthrown in a coup.