THE UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says it is suspending some food aid to Ethiopia while it addresses worries that…
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SUSPECTED militants have killed at least 27 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local reports say…
NEARLY 300 orphans caught in the crossfire in Sudan’s capital have been rescued in a daring and dangerous evacuation by…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he has contracted Covid-19 after one of three tests conducted on him turned out…
AN 88-YEAR-OLD man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a…
SENEGAL has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among…
ONE of the surviving sons of the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has gone on hunger strike to protest against…
TEN people from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in an army attack on a university campus in…
MOZAMBIQUE’s justice minister says prison guards who help inmates get hold of drugs and other banned substances are “worse than…
PETROL prices have almost doubled in Benin after it was announced that fuel subsidies would be scrapped in next-door Nigeria.…
THE government in Senegal has deployed soldiers throughout the capital, Dakar, as residents brace themselves for more unrest. On Thursday…
RESIDENTS of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, have reported more fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).…
SOCIAL media and messaging platforms have been blocked in Senegal after unrest erupted over the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane…
TANZANIA says its outbreak of the Marburg virus is over. Presence of the haemorrhagic fever was first confirmed in March,…
ROCKETS hit a market in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killing 18 people and leaving more than 100 wounded, doctors and residents…
RIGHTS group Amnesty International is calling on Angola to release an activist, saying he has been detained “arbitrarily” for more…
ONE of Africa’s most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted…
SUDANESE officials say the army has suspended ceasefire talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accusing the group of…
KENYAN-BORN Bernice Kariuki has resigned as Arsenal’s private chef after two years at the English Premier League club. She announced…
THE Zimbabwean government summoned the acting US ambassador to the country on Tuesday over election-related social media posts, which it…