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GUINEA’s junta chief Gen Mamady Doumbouya has won the presidential election by a landslide, getting 86.7% of the vote, according…
GUINEA’s junta leader Gen Mamady Doumbouya has taken a huge lead in a presidential election his main challengers were barred…
IVORY Coast has signed a major bilateral health agreement with the United States aimed at strengthening the country’s health system…
AT first light in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam, some of its six million residents begin their day with…
THERE is growing anger in Malawi over a post-Christmas fortnight trip to the UK that one of the country’s vice-presidents…
NIGER Republic’s military rulers have approved a general mobilisation and authorised the requisition of people and goods as they intensify…
THE UK is to impose visa restrictions against people arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo after its government failed…
VOTE counting is underway in Ivory Coast following legislative elections to choose the country’s 255 members of the National Assembly,…
BRITISH-EGYPTIAN dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah has arrived in London after Egyptian authorities lifted a travel ban that had remained in…
IN Ivory Coast, the opposition PDCI-RDA is accusing supporters of the ruling RHDP of carrying out a fraudulent collection of…
ISRAEL has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation. Prime Minister…
FIVE people were killed, including two Czech tourists, after a helicopter crashed on Mount Kilimanjaro, the authorities in Tanzania announced…
RESIDENTS of Somalia’s capital voted Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first one-person, one-vote poll since…
ALGERIA’s parliament has unanimously passed a law declaring France’s colonisation of the North African state a crime, and demanding an…
TURKISH authorities found the cockpit voice recorder and black box from a private jet that crashed Wednesday, killing the head…
THE Libyan army chief has been killed in an air crash in Turkey, Libya’s prime minister has said. Gen Mohammed…
UGANDA has imposed restrictions on the importation of Starlink equipment and similar devices barely a month before national elections on…
DETTY December, a popular term for Ghana and Nigeria’s end-of-year party season, can have “negative connotations”, Ghana’s official for diaspora…
HE has traded in his military fatigues for civilian clothes but still rules Guinea with an iron fist: Junta leader…