GHANA has summoned South Africa’s top envoy to the country over reported “acts of intimidation and harassment” against its citizens…
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KENYAN President William Ruto has faced a social media backlash after publicly suggesting that Nigerian-accented English was incomprehensible and required…
A TOTAL of 518 people died in Tanzania from “unnatural causes”, including 197 who were shot dead, in the widespread…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed the country’s top policeman on “precautionary suspension” after he was charged in court…
A NETWORK of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support…
POPE Leo XIV on Wednesday called for “greater room for freedom” in Equatorial Guinea and delivered a rare criticism of…
NEARLY 4 million people have voluntarily returned to their places of origin in Sudan in the hope of rebuilding their…
SOUTH Africa’s police chief has been formally charged with failing in his duties to provide proper oversight in his role…
MORE than 200 civilians held captive in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo by an armed group linked…
US authorities have arrested an Iranian woman for trafficking arms to Sudan on behalf of her country, prosecutors have said.…
THE government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and rival M23 rebels have agreed to ease aid deliveries…
BURKINA Faso’s military government has ordered the dissolution of more than 100 associations and civil society groups, which rights groups…
THE UN’s humanitarian chief has warned that South Sudan is at a dangerous crossroads as it faces the risk of…
IN a country where criticising the authorities has often landed people in trouble, the latest song from Ethiopia’s biggest musician…
FIFTEEN people have arrived in DR Congo after being expelled from the United States as part of an immigration crackdown,…
THE youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe has pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and illegally being…
LEADING South African opposition politician Julius Malema, 45, has been sentenced to five years after being found guilty of the…
SOUTH African police say have they arrested “wanted fugitive” French-born Beninese activist Kemi Seba while he was allegedly attempting to…
A CHINESE national has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to smuggle thousands of live queen garden…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Roelf Meyer, who served in the last government of the apartheid era, as…