LIBERIA’s president was “honoured” to meet US counterpart Donald Trump this week and wasn’t offended by Trump’s comment about his…
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TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Ankara on Friday for a high-level meeting focused…
THERE are “reasonable grounds” to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in western Sudan, said the…
ON Monday, as anti-government protests swept across parts of Kenya, 12-year-old Bridgit Njoki sat watching television in her family’s modest…
LESOTHO has declared a national state of disaster over the country’s “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses” as…
KENYA’s President William Ruto has ordered police to shoot protesters targeting businesses in the legs, ensuring they are incapacitated but…
US President Donald Trump will host five leaders from West Africa Wednesday for a White House summit aimed at fostering…
TUNISIAN opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, adding to a string of other jail…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has opposed what he calls the “unilateral” higher trade tariffs imposed on his country by…
THE first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use. It’s expected to be…
ELEVEN people have been killed nationwide during antigovernment protests in Kenya on the 35th anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising, the…
POLICE Minister Senzo Mchunu has been accused of having ties to criminal gangs and of meddling in police investigations into…
UGANDA’s long-serving president, Yoweri Museveni, 80, has been declared the governing party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election, opening the…
THE US has deported eight people to South Sudan following a legal battle that saw them diverted to Djibouti for…
MALI’s military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable…
PLANS for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will…
BURKINA Faso has withdrawn the licences of four foreign NGOs to operate in the junta-led country and suspended two other…
THE Namibian government has announced a temporary ban on state funerals amid criticism over the rising costs of these burials.…
THE embattled former Director General of the National Financial Investigation Agency in Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga, is set to face…
TANZANIA’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has announced that he will not seek re-election in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, effectively preventing…