GUINEA’s ruling junta wants to extend presidential terms from five to seven years, with a two-term limit, according to a…
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THOUSANDS of Sudanese teenagers finally sat for their high school exams this week after multiple delays during more than two…
LIBERIA’s former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and…
THE Congolese government says it targeted an aircraft which rebels claim was delivering food aid before it was blown up…
A TUNISIAN court has sentenced Sonia Dhamani, a prominent lawyer and renowned critic of President Kais Saied, to two years…
A STREET vendor shot in the head by police during protests two weeks ago has died a day after being…
MONTHLY temperature records have been broken across Morocco, sometimes topping seasonal norms by as much as 20 degrees Celsius, the…
AT least seven people were killed and many others wounded during recent anti-government protests in the Togolese capital Lome, according…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will “not yield to threats and ultimatums” in a stinging rebuke to the…
THE signing of a peace agreement between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington has…
SOUTH Africa’s criminal intelligence chief Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo has been arrested and has appeared in court on allegations of fraud…
RWANDA and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a peace deal in Washington aimed at ending decades of devastating…
AT least 16 people died in the previous day’s protests across Kenya, Amnesty International said on Thursday, as businesses and…
TWENTY-NINE children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crush after…
MARCHES in Kenya to mark a year since massive anti-government demos turned violent on Wednesday, with two killed and running…
A SOUTH African court has halted plans to bury former Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a private ceremony just as…
“ANOTHER appalling attack” on a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and…
MALI and Russia have signed a series of agreements aimed at expanding mutual trade and strengthening economic ties. Among them…
THREE senior police officers in Kenya have been charged with the murder of a 31-year-old blogger who died in police…
THERE have been celebrations at the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea as communities from the frontier villages came together for…