SENEGAL’s former president Macky Sall is seeking one of the most coveted positions on the international scene: Secretary-General of the…
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SOUTH Africa embarked on a mass vaccination of cattle on Friday to stem an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that threatens…
AT least 23 people have been killed in flash flooding in Nairobi, police said Saturday, as search and rescue operations…
GUINEA dissolved 40 political parties, including its three main opposition groups, via a late-night decree, fewer than two months after…
SOME of the 43 Ugandan students evacuated from Iran have described their ordeal after being evacuated from the country. “We…
ON a drizzly Sunday evening in the Zimbabwean capital, three boys aged between six and nine scout for scrap metal…
MORE than 200 people, including 70 children, have been killed after a landslide caused a collapse in a mining area…
NIGER Republic’s ruling junta said Thursday it had cancelled three gold mining companies’ concessions and denied a licence extension to…
COMPUTER tablet screens glow inside a row of partitioned booths at a new-style Ethiopian police station. There is no commotion.…
THE UK government will stop issuing study visas to people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan from this month, Home…
THREE people have been detained in Belgium as part of a probe into possible crimes against humanity and war crimes…
THE US has imposed sanctions on the Rwandan army and four of its senior commanders, accusing them of fuelling the…
THE authorities in South Sudan have said at least 169 people, including senior officials, were killed on Sunday when a…
ACROSS the African continent, reactions have been pouring in since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on…
THE United States on Friday eased sanctions on several senior Malian officials, following the penalties that were previously imposed over…
THE campaign for next month’s presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville begins on Saturday, with 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso seemingly assured…
A UNITED States citizen has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing two teenage girls…
JEFFREY Epstein tried to buy a multimillion-dollar palace in Morocco the day before his arrest in 2019, according to documents…
A UNITED Nations investigative body has warned that South Sudan risks “a return to full-scale war” unless it can urgently…
AT least 55 Ghanaians have been killed fighting in the war in Ukraine, with two others currently held as prisoners…