SOUTH Africa has repatriated 2,745 foreigners in the week after President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed tougher action against illegal immigration, the…
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THE Ebola outbreak is spreading into new areas of the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo and is bigger in scale…
IN an interview with a local TV station, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel’s recognition of Somalliland marked one of the…
IN Bunia, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the city’s private clinics are playing…
SOUTHWARK Council has confirmed that it has taken possession of a council property linked to Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Fatima…
TWO opposition figures in the DR Congo were injured on Friday at a rally against government plans to change the…
A DRONE strike on a funeral procession at a cemetery in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid has killed at least…
RIGHT groups and the lawyer of jailed Moroccan feminist, Ibtissame Lachgar, warn that her health is declining rapidly because she…
POLICE in South Africa have launched a manhunt after 12 people were killed in a mass shooting at an informal…
IN the midst of the Ebola epidemic, doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo said they will go on strike…
A DEMONSTRATOR has been shot during a protest in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki against the construction of an Ebola…
MARITIUS Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has secured a significant legal victory after a court dismissed charges linked to millions of…
KENYA’s former Chief Justice David Maraga has been arrested while protesting against, among other things, what activists are alleging is…
THE speaker of Senegal’s parliament, Ousmane Sonko, a powerful mentor-turned-rival to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, won re-election Saturday as head…
PROTEESTERS gathered on Saturday at midday outside the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the…
NEARLY 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a WHO overview showed…
A DRONE strike on a market in central Sudan has killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more, according…
AT least 49 people have died of thirst in a remote part of the Sahara desert in northern Niger after…
GHANA has recorded 14 arrests linked to false news and offensive speech in less than 16 months, nearly double the…
GOVERNMENT forces and opposition fighters have exchanged heavy gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as a row over delays to elections…