Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to keep working together to prop up crude prices, but said they would decide only in June on whether to extend production cuts. Meeting in Azerbaijan 39;s capital Baku, members of the OPEC alliance said they would continue coordinating efforts to stabilise the oil market through prod ...

Was the United States complacent in its certification of the Boeing 737 MAX? That 39;s a question everyone is asking after Addis Ababa said flight recorded data showed clear similarities between last week 39;s Ethiopian Airlines crash and that of Indonesia 39;s Lion Air five months earlier. In service since May 2017, the 737 MAX 8, ...

A police officer was killed in DR Congo on Saturday as violence broke out after the crushing defeat of new President Felix Tshisekedi 39;s party in the previous day 39;s senate election. Separately, presidential pardons from Tshisekedi released an opposition leader and a rights activist jailed during the presidency of Joseph Kabila. T ...

A leading Equatorial Guinea human rights activist has been arrested in the capital Malabo where he travelled to receive an award for his work, an opposition party and police source said Saturday. Alfredo Okenve was arrested at Malabo 39;s airport on Friday night, the opposition Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) said in a statement. ...

CAF Confederation Cup trophy-holders Raja Casablanca are facing elimination unless they win a tricky match in Congo Brazzaville and get help from fellow Moroccans Renaissance Berkane. Raja have drawn four games and lost one in Group A, leaving them bottom of the table ahead of a final matchday clash with second-place AS Otoho Oyo in Owando ...

All across the world today, students are skipped class to attend the first global protest against government inaction on climate change. In the thousands, students protested in many of the capitals in Europe, Africa and the Americas. The movement has grown in strength and numbers since 16 year-old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunber ...

Boeing is upgrading the stall prevention software on its 737 MAX, industry sources said Friday, as French investigators scoured black box data from the latest of two deadly crashes involving the aircraft in recent months. The MAX has been grounded worldwide following Sunday 39;s Ethiopia Airlines disaster that killed all 157 on board, and ...

Health authorities in Niger said Friday they had found a fake version of a meningitis vaccine after the country had launched a campaign to innoculate millions of children against the disease. In a statement, the health ministry asked doctors to be vigilant over a counterfeit version of a vaccine called Mencevax ACWY. The fake drug is ...

Nations on Friday were expected to commit to significantly reduce single-use plastics over the next decade, in a series of voluntary pledges that green groups warned fell short of tackling Earth 39;s pollution crisis. After marathon talks in Nairobi, countries appeared to have reached a deal over throwaway plastic items such as bags, cup ...

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the centre of the Algerian capital for a fourth consecutive Friday demanding the ouster of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, AFP correspondents said. They said the crowd at Algiers 39; landmark Grand Poste square was growing, two hours before the scheduled start of a demonstration calling on the 82 ...

From Syria 39;s devastating conflict to unprecedented mass protests in Algeria, the Arab world has seen eight years of turmoil. Only Tunisia pursues democratisation, while other countries are marred by war, repression and chaos. A panorama: Tunisia: spark of Arab Spring In December 2010 the self-immolation of a young street ...

US aerospace giant Boeing said Thursday it was suspending deliveries of its top-selling 737 MAX as French investigators took delivery of the black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 passengers and crew. The MAX has been grounded worldwide following the disaster -- the second involving the model in five months -- and ...

Tanzanian club Simba SC boast a perfect CAF Champions League home record this season and can book a quarter-finals place by beating Democratic Republic of Congo visitors V Club Saturday. Record eight-time champions Al Ahly of Egypt and JS Saoura of Algeria are also chasing top-two finishes in Group D on the final matchday in the elite Afric ...

The death rate among women undergoing a C-section to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, researchers said Friday. One in 200 women perished during or soon after a caesarean in a sampling of nearly 3,700 births across 22 African countries, they reported in The Lancet Global Health. By compariso ...

A Burkina Faso rights group on Thursday accused the military of carrying out the summary execution of at least 60 people in an anti-jihadist operation last month. On February 5, the army said it had neutralised 146 terrorists following a jihadist attack had killed 14 civilians near the country 39;s northern border with Mali. But an ...

French investigators were examining the black boxes from the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia on Thursday, as the ban on the model went worldwide after President Donald Trump added the US to countries that have grounded the aircraft. France 39;s BEA air safety agency confirmed it has received the recorders from the plane th ...

From a quiet farmland at the base of rolling hills outside Ethiopia 39;s capital, the sound of wailing rang through the air. Devastated mourners flung themselves onto a ground littered with business cards, seat covers and shards of aluminium. They cried the names of loved ones who had been aboard the jetliner that nose-dived into the f ...

The deadly Ebola outbreak raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be over within six months, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. Seven months since the outbreak erupted in DRC 39;s violence-torn North Kivu province, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters there were clear signs the ...

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire ndash; 11 March, 2019 The African Development Bank and Sophia University in Japan, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote capacity development within the two institutions for their mutual benefit and the entire African continent. The agreement was signed Friday at the Bank rsquo;s Abi ...

The black box flight recorders from the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in Ethiopia were flown to France Thursday for analysis as the ban on the model went worldwide after President Donald Trump added the US to countries that have grounded the aircraft. France 39;s BEA air safety agency confirmed it has received the recorders from the ...