US President Donald Trump’s senior Africa envoy has asked the UN to extend its arms embargo from Darfur to all…
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TANZANIA’s vice president resigned Tuesday, saying he wanted to respect the president’s wishes, weeks after a newspaper was suspended for…
COURT premises in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and elsewhere have been shut as the deadline for filing a petition against…
FOUR people have been arrested in South Africa in connection with the murder of boxing champion Zolani Tete, who was…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group have agreed a roadmap for peace talks. In…
A MOUNTAINOUS heap of refuse has collapsed at the largest landfill in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, killing at least 30 people,…
LIFE-THREATENING malnutrition among children is spiking in Somalia as more than 200 health and nutrition facilities were forced to shutter…
ZAMBIAN police summoned opposition leader Brian Mundubile late Saturday for questioning over an alleged national security threat, days after an…
AT least 13 Tunisians are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Tunisian coast while sailing towards Italy,…
A FORMER Zambian minister was killed in last week’s raid by security forces on a house linked to opposition leader…
AS the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) struggles to manage its largest outbreak of the Ebola virus, it is…
THE two French journalists detained in Togo since last month have been charged with “false declarations” despite having the correct…
A HELICOPTER taking tourists on a safari has crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya, killing all seven people…
ZAMBIAN opposition leader Brian Mundubile says he will challenge the country’s presidential election result in court, alleging voting fraud in…
THE Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization…
ZAMBIA’s President Hakainde Hichilema has won re-election for a second five-year term, according to the electoral authorities, after a race…
SOMALIA’s army has said it has driven opposition fighters out of Baidoa, the largest city in Somalia’s South West State,…
THE Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed 2,325 people, surpassing the death toll from…
ZAMBIA’s incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema has taken an early lead in the country’s general election, putting him on course for…
INTERNATIONAL observers monitoring Zambia’s presidential election have raised concerns over reports of intimidation and abductions, after vote counting was suspended…