SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has opposed what he calls the “unilateral” higher trade tariffs imposed on his country by…
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THE first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use. It’s expected to be…
ELEVEN people have been killed nationwide during antigovernment protests in Kenya on the 35th anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising, the…
POLICE Minister Senzo Mchunu has been accused of having ties to criminal gangs and of meddling in police investigations into…
UGANDA’s long-serving president, Yoweri Museveni, 80, has been declared the governing party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election, opening the…
THE US has deported eight people to South Sudan following a legal battle that saw them diverted to Djibouti for…
MALI’s military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable…
PLANS for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will…
BURKINA Faso has withdrawn the licences of four foreign NGOs to operate in the junta-led country and suspended two other…
THE Namibian government has announced a temporary ban on state funerals amid criticism over the rising costs of these burials.…
THE embattled former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is set to face…
TANZANIA’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has announced that he will not seek re-election in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, effectively preventing…
GUINEA’s ruling junta wants to extend presidential terms from five to seven years, with a two-term limit, according to a…
THOUSANDS of Sudanese teenagers finally sat for their high school exams this week after multiple delays during more than two…
LIBERIA’s former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and…
THE Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up…
A TUNISIAN court has sentenced Sonia Dhamani, a prominent lawyer and renowned critic of President Kais Saied, to two years…
A STREET vendor shot in the head by police during protests two weeks ago has died a day after being…
MONTHLY temperature records have been broken across Morocco, sometimes topping seasonal norms by as much as 20 degrees Celsius, the…
AT least seven people were killed and many others wounded during recent anti-government protests in the Togolese capital Lome, according…