AMNESTY International on Thursday called on Ethiopian authorities to restore access to social media networks including Facebook, TikTok and Youtube…
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FOURTEEN migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have drowned off the coast of the Tunisian city of Sfax, the coastguard said on…
FOR the first time in Tanzania’s history, the president has attended an International Women’s Day event organized by the main…
SOUTH Sudanese President Salva Kiir has sacked his foreign minister, less than a week after dismissing the defence and interior…
SOUTH Africa’s gross domestic product shrank by 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022, much more than was expected. Analysts…
GHANA’S Deputy Defence Minister Kofi Amankwa-Manu has apologised for military excesses after soldiers were deployed early Tuesday in Ashaiman, a…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a former mayor, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, to the newly created position of electricity minister…
FOUR Terrorists prisoners escaped from a Mauritanian prison in the capital, Nouakchott, after killing prison guards, the interior ministry has…
A COURT in Egypt has handed down jail sentences, ranging from life to five years’ hard labour, to 30 people…
THOUSANDS of Tunisians have gathered in central Tunis in defiance of an official ban on their protest against President Kais…
LIBREVILLE, Luanda, Brazzaville, Kinshasa – France’s President Emmanuel Macron is on a whirlwind tour of African capitals as he tries…
TWO workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross were kidnapped Saturday in Mali, the organisation’s Mali branch said…
SOCIAL media sensation Khaby Lame, who was born in Senegal and raised in Italy, has joined the judges’ panel of…
A MAN who sold potato chips cooked in dirty oil from a power transformer has been sentenced by a court…
THE trial of Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who’s accused of aggravated rape and assault, has begun in France’s capital, Paris.…
AT least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected terrorists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on…
THE deputy head of Sudan’s ruling council, Mohamed Daglo, has called the 2021 military coup a “mistake”. In a televised…
THE African Union has reiterated its zero-tolerance approach to undemocratic changes of power on the continent. On the final day…
THE most powerful trade union in Tunisia is staging rallies in a number of cities in protest against President Kais…
THE body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried Thursday alongside 12 comrades at the spot…