SOUTH Africa slammed remarks Thursday by the US ambassador in Pretoria, who accused the country of having covertly provided arms…
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TWO babies have been rescued floating near the shores of Lake Kivu days after floods killed more than 400 people…
FEROCIOUS fighting between paramilitary fighters and the military is taking place in the northern suburbs of Sudan’s capital, residents say.…
TANZANIA has opened its first bone marrow transplant centre in the capital, Dodoma. According to the director of Benjamin Mkapa…
TWO visitors and two security guards have been killed in a gun attack near Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian…
THE number of people displaced inside Sudan by fighting between rival military factions has more than doubled in the past…
SUDANESE military fighter jets are continuing with air strikes in the capital Khartoum and the adjacent cities of Bahri and…
SOUTHERN African countries have agreed to deploy forces to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo where dozens of…
A 27-YEAR-OLD electrical engineering student has died trying to fix the power at a hospital affected by the fighting in…
NEARLY 400 bodies have been retrieved following floods and landslides that hit two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…
THE authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo say the number of people known to have died in severe flooding…
KENYA’s president has appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people who were members of…
SAUDI Arabia is to host the first face-to-face talks on Saturday between the warring armies in Sudan, after several ceasefires…
MALI’s military authorities have announced 18 June as the new date for a referendum on a draft constitution. Security forces…
TWO Nigerian girls have been burnt to death by their boyfriends in Burkina Faso, A Catholic source claims. The incident…
THE death of a well-known actress, killed in cross-fire in the north of Khartoum, has shocked residents of Sudan’s capital.…
DIVORCE court papers seen by the BBC allege that the daughter of Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe owned 25 residential properties,…
ZAMBIAN police have surrounded the house of ex-President Edgar Lungu in the capital, Lusaka, and demanded access to search it.…
THE death toll from landslides and floods in Rwanda has now risen to more than 100 amid heavy rains in…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Kenya to follow up on the humanitarian and security situation in Sudan following…