THE family of Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has halted the return of his body from South Africa, accusing the…
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CONTROVERSIAL Kenyan televangelist Gilbert Deya, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, has died in a road crash. Police told local…
SUDAN’s war is in strategic stalemate. Each side stakes its hopes on a new offensive, a new delivery of weapons,…
MALI’s military junta has started building a gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran Group. The project…
UGANDAN President, Yoweri Museveni, on Monday, signed a new law allowing civilians to be tried in military courts that critics…
KENYA’s deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of…
THOUSANDS of protesters gathered in Ivory Coast ‘s capital Abidjan on Saturday to demand the reinstatement on the electoral list…
CONSTRUCTION is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it…
THE head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has held talks with Rwanda-backed rebels about…
HUNDREDS of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to…
THE head of the main police station in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has been detained over the killing of a young…
CHINA has said it is ready to drop the tariffs it charges on imports from all 53 African countries with…
THE ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has “killed”…
ZAMBIA’s former President Edgar Lungu, who died last week, left instructions that his successor Hakainde Hichilema “should not be anywhere…
ARRANGING a funeral can be testing at the best of times – let alone for a former head of state.…
A MINIBUS carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape…
A KENYAN blogger who died in police custody was hit on the head and his death was likely to have…
DOZENS of activists have staged a protest outside a mortuary in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, following the death of a 31-year-old…
LIBERIA’s former speaker and three other members of the House of Representatives have been released from prison after paying a…
A SENIOR British soldier in Kenya has been arrested on rape allegations, the UK defence ministry said Sunday, confirming a…