Africa News

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

Kenya's flower exporters are switching to sea freight as new tech helps keep flowers fresh at sea.

The remains of congolese icon and the countries first prime Minister Patrice Lumumba are laid to rest in Kinshasa.  Belgium returned a single tooth from the murdered independence hero earlier this month.  And African ministers of education were in Paris Thursday for a UNESCO summit on tackling the devastating effect that the pandemic has had on education.

The scant remains of DR Congo's fiery independence hero Patrice Lumumba were interred on Thursday after a nine-day homage that stirred traumatic memories and national pride.

Seven Sudanese demonstrators were killed Thursday as security forces sought to quash mass rallies of protesters demanding an end to military rule, pro-democracy medics reported.

The tooth is all that remains of the murdered independence leader whose body was dissolved in acid.

Former Liverpool team-mates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah make the list of 30 nominees for the Confederation of African Football's Player of the Year award.

The anti-immigrant attitude is common in South Africa. But in recent months it has taken an organised shape in the form of a rapidly growing populist movement.  Young people united as the movement called "Operation Dudula" are demanding that illegal immigrants be sent home. The ruling party, the ANC, will have to respond. Authorities are firm in their stance of: "No jobs for undocumented migrants", but the situation can quickly get out of hand. Nobody wants to relive the tensions of 2008, 2015 and 2019.

Cameroon, Zambia, Tunisia and Togo are in Group B of the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which kicks off in Morocco on 2 July.

Angel Maxine, Ghana's first openly transgender musician, talks about the journey to becoming herself.

The UN Security Council has voted to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Mali despite the loss of air support from France. Also, healthcare workers in Zimbabwe are heading out on strike, demanding a tenfold increase of their wages and threatening to strike again if their demands are not met. And the Egyptian government has ordered the inhabitants of around 30 houseboats along the Nile to evacuate their homes by this week. 

Emily Banya co-founded a souvenirs business after puzzles helped her mental health

Senegal's main opposition coalition called off planned protests on Wednesday to avoid disrupting end-of-school exams and preparations for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday early next month, one of its leaders OusmaneSonko said.

Germany will return a goddess statue that was stolen from Cameroon 120 years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said on Monday, part of a growing trend to give back artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The last homes are being removed as part of what officials say is a plan to beautify the waterfront.

Behind the Commonwealth's allure as it welcomes Gabon and Togo into its ranks.

World number two Ons Jabeur, in her latest Wimbledon column, discusses how she loves breaking boundaries and why the 'Minister of Happiness' is one of her nicknames.

Kwamboka Kibagendi is the first known intersex person in Kenya to vie for a competitive political seat.

Three sisters braved lions, crocodiles, poachers, raging rivers and other dangers on a 1,300-mile transnational effort to forge a new dynasty.

What do infectious diseases, T-cells, tomatoes, heart failure, sickle cell anemia and sorghum harvests have in common?

In tonight's edition: Authorities in South Africa are seeking clues after 21 teenagers died in a packed bar. Also, the G7 is to mobilise $600 billion of investment in global infrastructure projects in the next five years, including in Africa, in a bid to counter China's initiatives. Finally, we speak to DJ and curator Mo Laudi about the "Globalisto" exhibition by African artists in the French city of Saint-Etienne.

Four people in South Africa's East London town remain in critical condition after attending a party that turned tragic. The Eastern Cape Premier's office tells CNN that the four remain under observation in hospital and authorities are waiting to question them.

African countries are facing a food-supply 'emergency' and need 'immediate funding' amid the war in Ukraine, said Edwin Ikhuoria, the Africa Executive Director of the ONE campaign, speaking to FRANCE 24 amid the G7 summit in southern Germany.

A BBC undercover investigation has exposed a human trafficking network smuggling disabled children from Tanzania to Kenya.

The force takes on mental health to help officers affected by stress - but for some it comes too late.

South Africa was on Sunday mourning the deaths of 22 young people -- some of them as young as 13 -- at a tavern in East London. 

Initial reports suggested that there had been a stampede inside the club, in the coastal city of East London.

At least 21 teenagers died over the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, officials said Sunday.

The deaths occurred during an attempted mass crossing by 2,000 people over border fences into Melilla. Several human rights groups have called for an investigation.

Gabon and Togo joined the Commonwealth on Saturday, becoming the latest nations with no historic ties to Britain to enter the English-speaking club headed by Queen Elizabeth II.  

This year’s summit for the group of nations came as they grappled with the place of the monarchy, and as many were forging connections with powers like China and Russia.

The Spanish prime minister on Saturday described a deadly migrant rush on the enclave of Melilla from Morocco as an attack on Spain's "territorial integrity", as human rights activists demanded an investigation.

Better late than never. That was the general reaction to Prince Charles' opening speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali on Friday.

Sharon Juhl is not your ordinary clown, he is a medical clown bringing smiles to hospitalised children.

Diana Mwazi is one of many young Kenyans who see elections as a way to make money, not bring change.

An oil supertanker that has been moored in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen since 1976 could break apart and unleash part or all of its 1.1 million barrels of oil on the Horn of Africa, the UN warns. Also in this edition: Britain's Prince Charles expresses regret for the legacy of slavery, and Rwanda is set to produce its own mRNA vaccines in a first for the continent. 

The brutal killing of a young woman in broad daylight on an Egyptian street has shocked the Arab world, bringing the country's gender-based violence crisis into the spotlight.

A summit of the organization that was born out of the embers of the British Empire is being held for the first time in the African country, but discussion of the host’s alleged abuses is conspicuously missing.

Located on Lake Victoria in East Africa, Migingo is the most densely populated island in the world. Covering an area smaller than a football pitch, the tiny island is home to several hundred people from Uganda and Kenya. Both countries have territorial claims on this piece of land located near the Kenyan coast, which has valuable fishing rights. Ugandans, who make up around a third of the population, cohabit with Kenyans, under the watchful eye of police from both nations. FRANCE 24's Bastien Renouil reports, with Séverine Bardon and Olivier Marzin.

A Nigerian senator and his wife were remanded in custody in London on Thursday charged with plotting to have a 15-year-old boy brought into the United Kingdom to harvest his organs, police said.