AT least 40 people in Sudan have been killed in a drone strike that targeted a funeral that was taking…
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TANZANIAN police have lifted a night-time curfew imposed since last Wednesday in the main city Dar es Salaam following deadly…
JUNTA leader Mamady Doumbouya officially entered Guinea’s presidential race Monday, submitting his candidacy for the December 28 elections that are…
THE Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. It is “highly likely” the stone head,…
THE Kenyan government has confirmed that 21 people have died following a landslide in the western part of the country…
SOUTH African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid…
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest…
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…