THOUSANDS of protesters gathered in Ivory Coast ‘s capital Abidjan on Saturday to demand the reinstatement on the electoral list…
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CONSTRUCTION is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it…
THE head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has held talks with Rwanda-backed rebels about…
HUNDREDS of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to…
THE head of the main police station in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has been detained over the killing of a young…
CHINA has said it is ready to drop the tariffs it charges on imports from all 53 African countries with…
THE ruling party in Burundi has won all 100 seats in a parliamentary election that the opposition says has “killed”…
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…