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A MASSIVE landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has killed more than 1,000 people, a UN official has told the…
GHANA’s President John Mahama has fired the country’s Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo following a recommendation by an inquiry. She had…
THIS weekend marks the start of the campaign for the constitutional referendum in Guinea. The High Authority of Communication (HAC),…
IN the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it’s back-to-school season. But in Goma, a city of over two million people,…
THREE people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian…
A HEAD-ON collision in Namibia involving vehicles belonging to the security services has killed 16 people. The accident took place…
AN extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people…
MILLIONS of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has…
AT least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania,…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that cholera deaths are climbing worldwide even as the number of recorded cases…
RWANDA has announced it received seven people deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on…
SEVERAL investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant’s…
RUSSIA has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger – a vast, arid state on…
SOUTH African opposition politician Julius Malema has been convicted of hate speech by the country’s equality court, following remarks he…
A CHOLERA epidemic at a camp for Sudanese refugees in neighbouring Chad has killed 68 people since it broke out…
BOTSWANA has declared a public health emergency as it faces a shortage of essential medicines and medical equipment. President Duma…
BURKINA Faso and Mali did not send representatives to a continental military meeting hosted by Nigeria Monday as relations between…
THE South African government is warning young women not to fall for social media recruitment drives promoting job opportunities abroad.…
THE president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, has called for a united Africa under one president, one…