PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest…
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CAIRO is set to open the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt hopes will celebrate the nation’s heritage and also…
HUNDREDS of people have been killed in Tanzania during three days of protests following Wednesday’s general election, the country’s main…
MORE than 60,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, which was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…
PROTESTS have escalated in major cities across Tanzania as opposition supporters denounce Wednesday’s presidential and parliamentary elections as a sham.…
CAMEROON’s Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji says opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary will face legal action over allegations he incited…
THE Rapid Support Forces militia reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in el-Fasher, days after it captured…
TANZANIA’s authorities have imposed a curfew in Dar es Salaam, the nation’s biggest city, following violent clashes between the police…
A PLANE crash near Kenya’s coast has killed 10 European tourists and a local pilot, officials have said. The aircraft…
MALI has suspended schools and universities nationwide due to a severe fuel scarcity caused by a blockade on fuel imports…
IVORY Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 percent in a vote which his…
FORMER Mali prime minister Moussa Mara will spend one year in prison after a Bamako court sentenced him Monday following…
CAMEROON’s President Paul Biya, 92, has been re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7 per cent of the votes. This…
DJIBOUTI’s parliament has removed the constitutional age ceiling for presidential candidates, opening the door for Ismail Omar Guelleh to seek…
AT least two people have been killed by gunfire in Cameroon, as protesters rallied a day before the announcement of…
TWO Cameroonian opposition figures and backers of presidential hopeful Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who challenged President Paul Biya’s 43-year grip on…
FORMER Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by…
GUINEANS have reacted with shock after it was announced that presidential candidates would need to pay a deposit of 875m…
NEARLY two-thirds of South Sudanese children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, with rates reaching as high…
GHANA’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has died at the age of 76. She was the widow of Ghana’s…