ETHOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has held his first face-to-face talks on Friday with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal…
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EAST African regional leaders have renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in eastern…
THE Russian ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR) has said that 1,890 “Russian instructors” were present in the country,…
FOUR South African police officers accused of assaulting and torturing a Nigerian on Friday made their first court appearance at…
THREE Kenyan police officers were on Friday given sentences ranging from 24 years in jail to the death penalty for…
SEVERAL people have been arrested in Cameroon over the murder of a prominent journalist Martinez Zongo, the presidency said on…
THE head of Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Martha Chizuma, has been suspended over a leaked audio in which she made…
CHADIAN president Mahamat Deby met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday. Mahamat Deby is visiting Israel to open the…
REGIONAL leaders meeting in Somalia have agreed on a joint offensive operation against Islamist militant group al-Shabab. The “search and…
A COURT in Cameroon has sentenced a former defence minister to 30 years in prison for embezzling nearly $40m (£32m).…
AN IVORIAN drum seized by France during colonization is about to be returned to the Ivory Coast. The sacred Djidji…
FROM southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, 22 million people are at risk of hunger, victims of a historic…
AUTHORITIES in Ethiopia’s Somali region have banned 15 media practitioners working for foreign organisations – including the BBC’s and the…
BRITISH Actor Idris Elba plans to open a film studio in Tanzania after holding initial talks with President Samia Suluhu…
THE police officer who left his rifle in a commercial vehicle after allegedly collecting a GH¢100 bribe from the driver…
LIBERIA’S President, George Weah, has announced that he is standing for re-election. In his annual state of the nation address,…
THE Somali government says it has killed more than 130 fighters from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab – a dozen…
GUNMEN opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday at the weekend in a township in South Africa,…
A Tropical storm followed by heavy rainfall has killed at least 16 people in Madagascar, emergency services say. Seventeen people…
ONLY 3% of school leavers in Ethiopia have won good enough grades to go to university, says Education Minister Berhanu…