SOUTH Africa has classified violence against women a national disaster following an online campaign culminating in countrywide protests on Friday.…
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QATARI Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), days after the government…
THE UN human rights council has given unanimous backing to a fresh, independent investigation into mass killings reported in the…
TWELVE historical artefacts have been formally returned to Ethiopia after being kept by a German family for more than 100…
THE Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International…
TANZANIA’s image for stability has been “stained” by the unrest that hit the East African nation during last month’s heavily…
ESWATINI’s government has confirmed that it received $5.1m (£3.8m) from the Trump administration for accepting people deported from the US…
A FRENCH energy company is facing war crimes allegations, which it denies, over a massacre near its multi-billon dollar international…
SOUTH Africa has said it does not want to receive any more chartered flights carrying Palestinians, days after the controversial…
A CROWD runs in panic along a dusty street. Shots ring out. A woman wearing a purple jacket carrying a…
A BRIDGE collapsed at a cobalt mine in southeast Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 32 wildcat miners, a…
SOMALIA’s Immigration and Citizenship Agency has confirmed that hackers breached its electronic visa platform, exposing sensitive personal data of travellers…
RWANDAN-BACKED M23 rebels and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a framework for peace in the…
AT least four people have been killed when two boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers capsized off Libya’s coast, according…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be an investigation into the “mysterious” arrival of a chartered plane carrying…
TANZANIAN President Samia Suluhu Hassan says her government will launch an inquiry into the deadly unrest that erupted following her…
SOME 200 Kenyans are fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine and more could be recruited into the conflict,…
SOUTH Sudan’s leader Salva Kiir has in a shock move dismissed one of his vice-presidents, Benjamin Bol Mel, who had…
A GABON court on Wednesday sentenced the former first lady and son of the oil-rich country’s deposed leader Ali Bongo…
AT least six people have died during a crowd crush at a military recruitment event in a stadium in Ghana.…