GABON’s media regulator on Tuesday announced the suspension of social media platforms “until further notice”, blaming content posted online for…
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A GOLD rush has gripped an informal settlement east of the South African city of Johannesburg, after reports spread a…
DRONE-FIRED missiles have hit a market in central Sudan’s Kordofan region, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens of…
THE family of ex-Zambian President Edgar Lungu, who died in South Africa last June and is yet to be buried,…
REPORTS say at least 20 people were killed on Saturday in the northern town of Titao, Burkina Faso, in attacks…
FLIGHTS in and out of Kenya’s main airport are being delayed following a planned strike by aviation industry workers, the…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he will deploy the army to help the police fight criminal gangs and illegal…
A NOW-HALTED plan to run a hepatitis B vaccine trial involving thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been criticised by…
BURKINA Faso’s transitional government, led by President Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on Thursday adopted a sweeping decree requiring large companies operating…
CHADIAN authorities, in cooperation with international police partners, have arrested a group of suspected killers and thieves linked to a…
MORE than 6,000 people were killed in just three days when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city…
GHANAIANS have rushed to defend their colourful handwoven “fugu” smocks after President John Mahama’s wearing of the loose-fitting traditional garment…
KENYA’s border with Somalia will re-open in April almost 15 years after it shut because of attacks by Islamist militant…
AT least 21 people have died after a passenger boat sank in River Nile state in northern Sudan, a medical…
A DRONE attack on a mosque in central Sudan has killed two children and injured 13 more, according to a…
AT least 31 people have died after a powerful cyclone struck Madagascar, says the disaster authority in the Indian Ocean…
ZIMBABWE’s cabinet backed draft legislation that would change the constitution to extend presidential terms from five years to seven, allowing…
ZAMBIA’s High Court has ordered the seizure of assets worth more than $1.3m (£923,000) from Dalitso Lungu, the son of…
FATAL drone strikes on civilians persist in Sudan’s Kordofan, as the central region has emerged as the latest front line…
A RUBBER boat carrying 55 passengers, including two babies, has overturned off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency…