GOVERNMENT ministers in Senegal have been banned from all non-essential foreign travel following the rise in the price of oil…
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MEDICAL charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has denounced a drone attack on a Sudanese hospital…
DEMOCRACY “kills” and the people of Burkina Faso must “forget” it, the country’s military ruler has said in an interview…
A MAN has killed four children in a stabbing attack at a nursery school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, police…
BURKINA Faso’s military is committing atrocities, including the ethnic cleansing of Fulani civilians, Human Rights Watch has found, which amount…
SOUTH African soldiers moved into gang-ridden Cape Town townships on Wednesday, as two people were killed in fresh violence, nearly…
AT least four people have been killed by a series of powerful explosions at an ammunitions depot in Burundi’s largest…
AT least 74 mine workers have been killed by gunmen in an area south-west of the capital, Juba, with government…
RAPE and sexual violence remain “part of everyday life” in areas of Sudan even when fighting in the country’s civil…
THREE people, two women and a man, have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building that was being used as…
SOMALI federal troops Monday wrested control of the key city of Baidoa after clashes with forces loyal to the head…
AN attack by Sudanese paramilitaries on South Kordofan has killed at least 14 people, including five children and two women,…
SHOPS, restaurants and cafes in Egypt have been told to close early as part of a raft of temporary measures…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has downplayed reports that his invitation to the forthcoming G7 summit in France has been…
THE United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as “the…
ONE of the key military figures convicted of crimes against humanity for his involvement in Guinea’s 2009 stadium massacre has…
ZIMBABWE says that 15 of its nationals have been killed after being recruited to fight for Russia in its ongoing…
ABOUT 32 bodies, mostly children, have been dug up from a mass grave in the western Kenyan town of Kericho…
THE head of South Africa’s police force has been summoned to appear in court in connection with a health contract…
A FORMER teacher accused of historical sex abuse charges in Scotland has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a former…