Africa

The government of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a woman identified as the first patient in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola Bundibugyo in the context of an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is an Ugandan-born Swiss national who had not recently visited the DRC.

China and Djibouti released a joint communique on Thursday supporting freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which are currently under threat from the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

Spanish police officers on Thursday arrested a “Muslim man” in Ceuta that housed and exploited 74 illegal migrants in a “Horror House.”

South African police on Thursday said they were investigating the killing of a foreign national at the hands of a mob in the coastal city of Durban.

Africa CDC scheduled an “extraordinary virtual meeting” for October 28 to discuss the spreading Ebola outbreak.

A Kenyan doomsday cult leader on Monday was found guilty by a Mombasa court of murdering 190 children and one adult.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power after a 2013 coup, said on Saturday he will step down in 2030.

The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Tuesday that total confirmed cases in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak have reached 9,066, with 4,381 fatalities.

All illegal migrants in Spanish territory must return to their country of origin “as soon as possible” King Felipe VI of Spain said Tuesday during his official visit to the invaded city of Ceuta.

The Republic of Somaliland praised President Donald Trump for his remarks acknowledging the nation-state located inside Somalia as “a distinct country” that has nothing to do with Somalia.

The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday that at least 139 migrants were killed when a boat sailing from Djibouti to Yemen capsized.

Over 350 officials from the Spanish National Police and other law enforcement agencies on Sunday forcefully cleared an illegal migrant encampment in Ceuta located at the Guano esplanade.

Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known colloquially as “Irro,” told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that American President Donald Trump is a “great man” who can “make more history” than he already has by formally recognizing Somaliland as its own country.

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to South African judge and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, currently serving as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The government of Kenya confirmed its first Ebola death linked to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, a Kenyan citizen who had traveled from the DRC through Uganda to Kenya last week.

Hundreds of Spanish National Police began to clear the infamous illegal migrant encampment in Ceuta months after the invasion from Morocco.

The United Nations expressed alarm in a statement on Thursday that the Kigonze camp in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — which temporarily housed thousands of displaced people — had been entirely emptied, scattering its population during an uncontrolled Ebola outbreak.

The waters of Ceuta’s El Trampolín beach present unsafe levels of fecal contamination, posing a serious sanitary risk for the embattled and invaded city, local outlets warned on Friday morning.

An enterprising Nigerian named Adeniyi Adeyemi is facing charges in the capital of Abuja for creating and running a fake government agency for over a year, complete with about $1 million in funding from the Nigerian federal government.

King Felipe VI of Spain on Tuesday condemned the deteriorating situation in Ceuta following the late July mass migrant invasion as “unacceptable,” calling on the E.U. to help protect the city’s borders which are also the union’s. The King referred

A senior member of the ruling party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was assaulted by a mob, robbed, and beaten to death in his own neighborhood on Sunday, shortly after calling for stronger measures against the Ebola outbreak on a radio program.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have recorded more than 8,000 cases of Ebola since an outbreak was identified there in May.

The Spanish central government’s representative in Ceuta announced his surprise resignation Monday, citing an alleged “unfair pressure” campaign against him from angry locals and their “hurtful words” as the mass migrant invasion of the exclave reaches its second month.

Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, foreign minister for Burkina Faso, used his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday to reject criticism of the military junta that rules his country.

Over a thousand residents of Ceuta staged a sit-in near the city’s border with Morocco on Sunday to once again demand solutions to the unresolved mass migrant invasion of the Spanish North African exclave.

Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Kamal Madbouly told the U.N. General Assembly that the international order must be overhauled.

Nigeria has made improvements in addressing the pervasive jihadist campaigns against Christians nationwide, but skyrocketing kidnapping rates should not be treated as a mere “security” problem when victims say their captors demand they convert, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian aid organization Open Doors US, told Breitbart News this week.

The Trump administration plans to cap next year’s refugee inflow at 17,500 people, down from the 125,000 target set under President Joe Biden.

Egypt on Monday tentatively agreed to South Sudan’s plans for the Grand Fula Dam project, but renewed its feud with Ethiopia over another project known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

The Houthi offensive in Yemen has displaced over 82,000 people since the beginning of September, over 3,000 of whom have fled to Djibouti.

Authorities in Tanzania said 10 lions were found dead of suspected poisoning on Friday in a conservation area.

Thousands of Ceuta residents marched towards the city’s border with Morocco on Sunday, demanding stronger frontier enforcement measures and the expulsion of all remaining illegal invaders.

Caribbean states are considering legal action in a bid to force the UK to pay slavery reparations linked to “racial discrimination” treaties as first defined by the United Nations.

Two pilots landing in North Africa allegedly crossed one of aviation’s boldest red lines by flying drunk when they crashed a brand new private jet this week, causing it to burst into flames just after it touched down in Libya.

The Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta endured another chaotic night into early morning after an avalanche of invading migrants still in the city rushed a new “temporary” seaside shelter.