GHANA has deployed soldiers to the conflict-ridden town of Bawku, near the border with Burkina Faso, following the reported killing…
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MALI’s former Prime Minister Choguel Maïga is facing fresh legal scrutiny following allegations of financial misconduct during his time in…
AT least 38 people have been killed and 15 others injured in an attack on a church in the eastern…
CAMEROON’s opposition leader Maurice Kamto has been excluded from the list of candidates in the 12 October presidential election. Only…
TWO days after he was kidnapped in July 2007, the bloodied and battered corpse of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi…
KENYA’s police watchdog has accused officers of using “disproportionate force” to quell a recent series of protests during which 65…
THE treason trial of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has begun in a military…
MORE than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading…
THE International Criminal Court Thursday convicted a former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo for…
A NEW constitution that has allowed Togo’s long-time head of state Faure Gnassingbé to shift to a new role as…
AN Ethiopian official has denied Donald Trump’s claim that the United States helped fund Ethiopia’s new megadam on the River…
THE government has revealed details of its plans to cut foreign aid, with support for children’s education and women’s health…
PEOPLE in a gold-mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been using their bare hands…
A KENYAN man on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been released after a lengthy…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday dismissed his embattled higher education minister, weeks after a key party in his…
PROMINENT Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi has been charged with illegal possession of ammunition linked to protests last month in which…
EVEN before the world’s oldest president confirmed that he would run for an eighth term in power, his social media…
A BUILDING collapse that killed 34 construction workers and injured dozens in Western Cape province last year was “entirely preventable”,…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed armed group M23 signed a ceasefire deal on Saturday to end fighting that…
A HIGHLY respected police officer has shaken South Africa’s government – and won the admiration of many ordinary people -…