BENIN presidential election favourite Romuald Wadagni swept to victory in the country’s polls, securing 94 percent of votes, according to…
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ANGLOPHONE separatists in Cameroon have announced a period of “safe travel passage” and halted fighting ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s…
GHANAIAN footballer Dominic Frimpong has died after suspected armed robbers opened fire at the bus carrying his team Berekum Chelsea…
POPE Leo XIV wants to “turn the world’s attention to Africa”, according to a senior Vatican official, as he embarks…
BRITISH barrister Martin Hackett has been appointed as The Gambia’s first special prosecutor to try those responsible for human rights…
TANZANIAN musician Sefu Shabani, popularly known as Matonya, has been arrested and charged with rape in Kenya. The 43-year-old denied…
DJIBOUTI’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won an election with 97.8% of the vote, keeping him at the helm of…
A CHARITY co-founded by the Duke of Sussex is suing him for defamation. A spokesman for Sentebale, which supports young…
WITH growing fears that the militant Islamist insurgency that has engulfed large parts of West Africa is spreading, security has…
THE world’s largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious “civil war” for the…
FEARS are growing in opposition circles in Zimbabwe that the ruling Zanu-PF party is making a new grab for power…
KENYA has made a formal protest against a UN report which alleged that its personnel serving in a Security Council-authorised…
TANZANIAN President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday ordered government officials to travel in a single bus during official trips to…
DOZENS of people have died from floods following heavy rains in recent days in the Angolan capital, Luanda, and other…
RUSSIA has confirmed the deaths of 16 Cameroonian nationals fighting with its army in the invasion of Ukraine, Cameroon’s government…
POLICE in Ethiopia have arrested a man accused of being at the centre of a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking ring…
CHURCH leaders and politicians in South Sudan have used their Easter messages to call for “lasting peace” and an end…
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) says it is expected to receive “third-country” nationals who have been deported from…
EIGHT people from different African countries have been deported to Uganda from the United States, the first such transfer under…
CAMEROON’s President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest leader, is set to get a vice-president for the first time in his…