A HEAD-ON collision in Namibia involving vehicles belonging to the security services has killed 16 people. The accident took place…
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AN extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people…
MILLIONS of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has…
AT least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania,…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that cholera deaths are climbing worldwide even as the number of recorded cases…
RWANDA has announced it received seven people deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on…
SEVERAL investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant’s…
RUSSIA has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger – a vast, arid state on…
SOUTH African opposition politician Julius Malema has been convicted of hate speech by the country’s equality court, following remarks he…
A CHOLERA epidemic at a camp for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad has killed 68 people since it broke out…
BOTSWANA has declared a public health emergency as it faces a shortage of essential medicines and medical equipment. President Duma…
BURKINA Faso and Mali did not send representatives to a continental military meeting hosted by Nigeria Monday as relations between…
THE South African government is warning young women not to fall for social media recruitment drives promoting job opportunities abroad.…
THE president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, has called for a united Africa under one president, one…
THREE young Libyan sisters have drowned in a rubber boat carrying migrants in the central Mediterranean after waves of up…
GUINEA‘s military rulers have suspended the country’s three main opposition parties, including that of former President Alpha Conde, in the…
THE UK government has agreed to pay compensation to thousands of Kenyans who were affected by a fire caused by…
A MILITARY prosecutor on Friday demanded the death penalty for DR Congo’s former president Joseph Kabila, who is on trial…
NINE bodies have been exhumed from fresh graves suspected to be linked to Kenya’s notorious starvation cult. In one of…
SUDAN’s army has denied bombing a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy taking aid to a famine-hit area in the country’s…