African cocoa harvest might improve but your chocolate prices won’t.

Chocolate prices spike before Christmas: Here's why

Reasons why chocolate prices are rising: How weather pattern, seasonality play a part

22 killed as two buildings collapse in Morocco's Fez

4-storey structures, home to 8 families, left 16 injured with varying degrees of severity

Search and rescue operations are continuing amid fears that more people may remain trapped beneath the debris.

Benin coup attempt: Nigerian jets strike rebels

Rebels held Army Chief Gen. Abou Issa and Col. Faizou Gomina, who were later released

This videograb taken from handout footage released by Benin TV on December 7, 2025, shows soldiers from the "Military Committee for Refoundation" (CMR), appearing on state television in Cotonou, after a reported attempted coup in the West African nation.

Chemical weapons in Sudan: Conflict crossing red lines

International pressure grows over allegations of chlorine gas use by Sudanese army

Over the past two years, a growing body of international reports and investigative journalism has raised serious allegations against the Sudanese Armed Forces concerning the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons — most notably chlorine gas — during the ongoing war with the Rapid Support Forces.

Top 20 billionaires in Africa: Huge jump in wealth

The continent now counts 22 billionaires, worth a combined $105 billion

AFRICA'S RICHEST (2025): 1. Aliko Dangote; 2. Johann Rupert; 3. Nicky Oppenheimer; 4. Nassef Sawiris; 5. Nathan Kirsh; 6. Naguib Sawiris; 7. Abdulsamad Rabiu.

Benin president on TV: 'Situation under control'

Government says mutiny thwarted hours after a group of soldiers declared a takeover

FILE - Benin's President Patrice Talon attends a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

12 killed as gunmen storm hostel in South Africa

Children among victims as investigators piece together what led to the mass shooting

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Nigeria's defence minister resigns amid security crisis

Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, 63, was quitting with immediate effect, on health grounds

Some of the students who were abducted by gunmen from the Government Girls Secondary School, in Jangebe, last week wait for a medical checkup after their release meeting with the state Governor Bello Matawalle, in Gusau, northern Nigeria, Tuesday, March 2, 2021.

No cash: Sudanese turn to barter, credit amid conflict

Tuk-tuk rides paid with oil and soap, flour or sugar pay for vehicle maintenance

A woman observes with raised eyebrows as another woman holds a large bundle of South Sudanese pounds (SSP) during a cash-based transfer at a distribution center in the Bentiu internally displaced persons camp, Unity State, South Sudan, on November 6, 2025.

Abductors free 12 young girls kidnapped in Nigeria

Mass kidnappings: Militant factions in Nigeria's northeast still considered 'dangerous'

People who were kidnapped during a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Guinea-Bissau rocked by coup, president’s arrest

President Embalo, favoured to win re-election, held at general-staff headquarters

Armed men seize power in Guinea-Bissau as President Embalo confirms ouster.

Mystery foot belongs to ancient human relative

The discovery is the latest twist in the tale of human evolution

The Burtele foot, which had been a mystery since being discovered in Afar Region in Ethiopia, in 2009, with its elements in the anatomical position.

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