ONE of Africa’s most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted…
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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…
THE United States and Saudi Arabia have welcomed the extension of a ceasefire deal between Sudan’s warring military factions for…
A LIBYAN court is reported to have issued death sentences to 35 people accused of being members of the militant…
ENTIRE villages in Sudan’s West Darfur region have been burned to the ground by marauding militias, with aid agencies now…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed that a Ugandan army base in Somalia was stormed by hundreds of al-Shabab militants…
FIFTEEN people in Cameroon taking the body of a loved one for burial died Friday when their minibus was involved…
BOTH sides in Sudan’s conflict could be carrying out war crimes on medical facilities and staff, according to evidence seen…
AN 85-Year-Old British citizen in Sudan was shot and injured by snipers and his wife then died of starvation despite…
THE militant al-Shabab group on Friday morning carried out an attack on a Ugandan troops’ base of the African Union…
SUDAN’s warring sides accused each other on Thursday of being behind breaches of the latest ceasefire that was negotiated by…
ONE of four remaining fugitives from the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been captured, UN prosecutors say. Fulgence Kayishema was arrested…
CHINA’s embassy in Kenya has denied a Reuters news agency report that hackers from the Asian nation attacked key state…
SEPARATISTS gunmen in Cameroon’s restive north-western region have kidnapped over 30 women and injured an unspecified number of others, officials…
THE latest ceasefire aimed at ending the devastating conflict in Sudan appears to be largely holding in the capital and…
SOUTH Africa could become a “failed state” but has yet to reach that point, a senior official of the ruling…
MORE air strikes and clashes have been reported in Sudan – dampening hopes for the latest attempt at a ceasefire…
FOUR nurses in Tanzania’s western Tabora region are to be charged in court with harvesting the organs of baby twins,…