MALI’s army says it has launched a counterattack after fighters linked to al-Qaeda and members of a separatist group ambushed…
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A GHANAIAN TikToker has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to charges of offensive conduct and…
UGANDA’s government has suspended all school trips in the wake of Thursday evening’s bus crash that killed at least 20…
AN oil tanker has been seized off the coast of Yemen, in an attack the country’s coastguard says was carried…
A FIRE burning at an orphanage in Algeria’s capital has killed at least 11 people, including children, authorities said Thursday,…
THE last patient being treated for Ebola in Uganda has been discharged from hospital, leaving the country with no active…
SIERRA Leone’s government has dropped its charges, including treason, against ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was arrested in connection with…
A SPECIAL police team has begun investigating the killing of a provincial leader of an anti-migrant group in South Africa.…
THE true number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is likely at least double the…
THE European Union (EU) has banned the purchase, import and transfer of gold from Sudan, saying the trade has become…
STAFF at a hospital treating Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have gone on strike, alleging…
A SUDANESE court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for…
THE Malian army says about 30 troops have been killed and dozens more wounded during an operation to retake the…
MORE than a year after a diplomatic fallout, relations between Algeria and Mali are beginning to thaw, with both countries…
THE Ugandan government says at least 16 people have died from hunger in recent weeks in the north-eastern region of…
POLICE in South Africa say they have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering his wife and two daughters near…
SOUTH Africa’s Zulu king has expressed “deep” regret after a leaked video captured him hurling a barrage of insults at…
UGANDA’s judiciary has pushed back against a directive by the country’s lawyers’ association instructing its members to stop addressing judges…
ANTI-MIGRANT protests are continuing across South Africa, with humanitarian groups and regional countries on alert as vigilantes search for undocumented…
A GHANAIAN social media influencer known as Abu Trica, whose real name is Frederick Kumi, has been extradited to the…