THE ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has “killed”…
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ZAMBIA’s former President Edgar Lungu, who died last week, left instructions that his successor Hakainde Hichilema “should not be anywhere…
ARRANGING a funeral can be testing at the best of times – let alone for a former head of state.…
A MINIBUS carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape…
A KENYAN blogger who died in police custody was hit on the head and his death was likely to have…
DOZENS of activists have staged a protest outside a mortuary in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, following the death of a 31-year-old…
LIBERIA’s former speaker and three other members of the House of Representatives have been released from prison after paying a…
A SENIOR British soldier in Kenya has been arrested on rape allegations, the UK defence ministry said Sunday, confirming a…
RWANDA has pulled out of Central Africa’s main economic bloc, accusing the organisation of siding with the Democratic Republic of…
ZAMBIA on Saturday declared seven days of national mourning in honour of the country’s former president Edgar Lungu, who died…
LIBERIA’s former speaker of parliament has been charged with arson over a fire which destroyed the nation’s House of Representatives,…
THE Wagner Group has announced it is withdrawing from Mali following what it called “the completion of its main mission”…
THE central African nation of Chad says it is suspending all visas to US citizens as a matter of “reciprocity”,…
TANZANIA has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the…
THE United Nations has raised grave concerns following the discovery of dozens of bodies in areas of the Libyan capital…
THE international community must pressure Tanzania to investigate police officers accused of sexually torturing Kenyan and Ugandan activists last month,…
TWO suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, including a female suicide bomber, were killed in an explosion near a prominent…
AFTER Sudan’s army recaptured the national capital region of Khartoum in March, tens of thousands of people returned to check…
THE United Kingdom “considers Morocco’s autonomy proposal, submitted in 2007 as the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a…
A SOUTH African court opened an inquest Monday into the murders 40 years ago of four anti-apartheid activists by a…