THE Rapid Support Forces militia reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in el-Fasher, days after it captured…
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TANZANIA’s authorities have imposed a curfew in Dar es Salaam, the nation’s biggest city, following violent clashes between the police…
A PLANE crash near Kenya’s coast has killed 10 European tourists and a local pilot, officials have said. The aircraft…
MALI has suspended schools and universities nationwide due to a severe fuel scarcity caused by a blockade on fuel imports…
IVORY Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 percent in a vote which his…
FORMER Mali prime minister Moussa Mara will spend one year in prison after a Bamako court sentenced him Monday following…
CAMEROON’s President Paul Biya, 92, has been re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7 per cent of the votes. This…
DJIBOUTI’s parliament has removed the constitutional age ceiling for presidential candidates, opening the door for Ismail Omar Guelleh to seek…
AT least two people have been killed by gunfire in Cameroon, as protesters rallied a day before the announcement of…
TWO Cameroonian opposition figures and backers of presidential hopeful Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who challenged President Paul Biya’s 43-year grip on…
FORMER Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by…
GUINEANS have reacted with shock after it was announced that presidential candidates would need to pay a deposit of 875m…
NEARLY two-thirds of South Sudanese children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, with rates reaching as high…
GHANA’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has died at the age of 76. She was the widow of Ghana’s…
AT least 40 migrants, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, in one of…
FIVE French citizens have died while on a charitable mission in West Africa after their bus crashed off a bridge…
MORE than 20 civilians were killed by armed men on Sunday in Oromia, an Ethiopian region that has been enduring…
AN Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced opposition figure Fethi Ghares to two years in prison over a Facebook post judged…
A DRONE attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was…
MADAGASCAR’s new head of state on Monday named a civilian prime minister, following a military takeover last week that sent…