POLICE in Malawi have arrested eight people for alleged electoral fraud as the country waits for the final results of…
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MORE than 70 people have been killed following a drone strike on a mosque in Sudan’s Darfur region, a senior…
A SOUTH African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in…
THE World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that 31 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the…
A FORMER defence minister and vocal critic of Togo’s government, Marguerite Gnakadé, has been arrested, according to security sources. Gnakadé,…
MALI’s military government has sought to calm anger over a blockade by Islamist militants on major highways where lorry drivers…
GUNMEN on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a…
AT least 50 people have died after a vessel carrying 75 Sudanese refugees caught fire near the Libyan coast on…
A KENYAN High Court has issued an arrest warrant for a British national suspected of murdering a 21-year-old woman more…
POLICE have physically removed The Gambia’s auditor general, Momodou Ceesay, from his office after he refused to give up the…
A COURT in Zambia has sentenced two men to two years in prison for attempting to use witchcraft to kill…
MULTIPLE paramilitary drones attacked key army positions and civilian infrastructure in Sudan’s south on Sunday, an army official told AFP,…
THE king of South Africa’s large Zulu community has challenged a professor and cultural expert to a stick fight, saying…
TWO presidents vying for a second term at Malawi’s elections next week drew hundreds of supporters to their final rallies…
CONVICTED South African rapist Thabo Bester has lost a court bid to block Netflix from broadcasting a documentary about his…
BURKINA Faso says it has removed visa fees for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of…
ZAMBIA’s government says it will seek more compensation for communities affected by a toxic spill from a Chinese-owned copper mine,…
SOUTH Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in a move that…
IN a landmark judgment that strikes a major blow against entrenched patriarchal norms, South Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that…
SEVEN Chinese nationals who smuggled Malawians to South Africa and subjected them to forced labour have been handed 20-year prison…