NEARLY 130 people have been “summarily executed” by insurgents in Niger Republic in separate attacks since March, a report by…
Browsing: Africa
IVORY Coast’s former First Lady Simone Gbagbo, 76, is the surprise inclusion in a list of five candidates who have…
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened its war crimes case against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony in its…
HUNDREDS of protesters on Monday responded to a call from civil society to take to the streets of Uvira, in…
WEST African leaders and health experts have called for stronger regional co-operation and African-led solutions to tackle Lassa fever and…
MORE than two years of armed conflict in Sudan have ravaged the country’s agriculture sector, slashing food production and plunging…
CHINESE technologies shone at the ninth edition of the Aviation Africa Summit and Exhibition, which was held in Kigali, the…
AID workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of…
AFTER outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of…
ZAMBIA’s former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted…
SUDAN’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of…
COMMUNAL clashes in northern Ghana that started late last month have killed at least 31 people and displaced nearly 50,000,…
AT least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
BURKINA Faso’s transitional parliament has unanimously passed a bill criminalising homosexual acts, reversing more than six decades of legal tolerance…
SOUTH African authorities say “extreme poverty and a severe lack of affordable housing” were major factors in a deadly Johannesburg…
A MASSIVE landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has killed more than 1,000 people, a UN official has told the…
GHANA’s President John Mahama has fired the country’s Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo following a recommendation by an inquiry. She had…
THIS weekend marks the start of the campaign for the constitutional referendum in Guinea. The High Authority of Communication (HAC),…
IN the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it’s back-to-school season. But in Goma, a city of over two million people,…
THREE people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian…