POPULAR Zambian-American influencer and political vlogger has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for hate speech for making insulting…
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A RADIO presenter with South Africa’s public broadcaster has appeared in court on a charge related to the alleged recruitment…
LEFT-WING Cameroonian opposition figure Anicet Ekane has died in detention, five weeks after he was arrested, his lawyers and party…
A DELEGATION from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has visited Guinea-Bissau for mediation talks with leaders of…
SOUTH African police have arrested four Russia-bound men at Johannesburg’s airport suspected of having signed up to fight for the…
SENEGAL’s prime minister and Nigeria’s former president have both said they believe the ousting of Guinea-Bissau’s president this week was…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has travelled to the Republic of Congo, the AFP and Associated Press news agencies…
TUNISIAN police have arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa at a protest in the capital Tunis on Saturday, lawyers said.…
THE African Union (AU) has suspended Guinea-Bissau following the coup in the West African country that overthrew President Umaro Embalo.…
THE daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP following allegations that she tricked 17…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed, a day…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as “regrettable” the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would…
A GERMAN woman of Congolese origin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
TANZANIAN President Samia Suluhu Hassan is facing increasing international pressure as a coalition of regional and global civil society groups…
TANZANIA has cancelled next month’s independence day celebrations, with the funds to be instead spent on rebuilding infrastructure damaged in…
CAMEROONIAN opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who is contesting the outcome of the presidential election, has fled to The Gambia…
A LONG-DORMANT volcano in northern Ethiopia has erupted, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea towards Yemen and Oman.…
SUDAN’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters are committing war crimes in the Darfur town of el-Fasher, the rights group…
THERE are growing concerns over the possibility of armed conflict between Horn of Africa neighbours, Ethiopia and Eritrea, as hostile…
THE G20 summit in South Africa, a gathering of the world’s major economies, has ended with a joint declaration committing…