POLICE in Kenya have questioned a member of parliament over claims of funding bandits in the country’s northern Rift Valley…
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THE UN refugee agency says thousands of people are continuing to flee fighting and insecurity in the disputed Somaliland town…
ISRAELI hackers allegedly hacked into the private conversation of two aides to Kenya’s President William Ruto during last year’s election,…
A PASTOR in Mozambique has died after trying to fast for 40 days, emulating what Christ is said to have…
A FEMALE Kenyan senator who was asked to leave parliament because of an apparent blood stain on her trousers has…
AT least 73 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, according to the…
A CRASH between an armoured truck and a bus has killed 20 people and injured another 60 in South Africa’s…
EIGHT people were killed after a ferry and a motorised canoe collided on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of…
ONE of Africa’s most prestigious universities has banned those attending its graduation ceremony from carrying phones, cameras and video cameras.…
SOUTH Africa declared a national disaster on Monday as floods hit seven of its nine provinces, damaging roads and bridges…
A TWO-Day curfew has been called in a northern province of Equatorial Guinea, called Kié-Ntem, after 20 people died of…
SOMALIA has reopened its embassy in the UK after 32 years, in a ceremony attended by ambassador Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheyr,…
TEN people were killed when a makeshift gold mine collapsed in western Burkina Faso, a miners’ association said on Thursday.…
THE deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi’s history has killed at least 1,210 people, while vaccines remain scarce, the World Health…
ZAMBIA’S President Hakainde Hichilema has commuted the death sentences of 390 prisoners to life imprisonment. The announcement follows Mr Hichilema’s…
THE authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the number of people killed during the latest protest against UN…
RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has promised continued military support for Mali, which has been battling a jihadist insurgency for…
A HIGH court in Malawi has lifted the government’s suspension of the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Martha Chizuma,…
SOCIAL media giant Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has failed to stop a Kenyan court from hearing a…
A MEDIA tycoon in Cameroon has been arrested in connection with the killing of the prominent radio journalist, Martinez Zogo.…