DIPLOMATIC pressure on South Africa is mounting as more African countries threaten retaliatory measures over renewed xenophobic attacks targeting foreign…
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SUDAN has accused Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of playing a role in the recent drone attacks on…
TWO cases of hantavirus have been confirmed after three people died and another was left seriously ill in a suspected…
THE leader of Mali’s military government, Assimi Goita, has taken on the role of defence minister following the killing of…
POLICE in South Africa have managed to recover human remains after an officer was lowered from a helicopter into a…
AT least 18 people have died in flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in multiple parts of Kenya. The…
THREE people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health…
EGYPTAIR has cancelled its hajj flights to and from crisis-struck Mali, directly impacting more than 4,000 people, the country’s pilgrimage-organizing…
SOMALI pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, according to multiple Somali security officials that spoke…
THE US has imposed sweeping sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of backing the…
CHINA will scrap tariffs for all African countries from Friday – except Eswatini, which maintains ties with Taiwan. As of…
FORMER Adamawa State governorship candidate, Aishatu Binani, on Friday formally joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress, marking her latest political move…
A MAN has been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of four toddlers at a nursery school in…
A RUSSIAN paramilitary launched air strikes against rebel forces near Mali’s capital Bamako, video footage shows, following a shock offensive…
THE youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe is to deported from South Africa immediately, a court in…
A FORMER French serviceman has been detained in Madagascar for allegedly taking part in a plot to destabilise the island,…
MALI’s military leader Assimi Goita has met the Russian ambassador to the East African country, according to his office. Goita’s…
KENYAN President William Ruto says his remarks on the brand of English spoken in Nigeria were misrepresented and taken out…
At LEAST 42 people have been killed and 10 injured in fighting between rival ethnic groups in eastern Chad in…
A SMALL passenger plane has crashed in South Sudan killing all on board, the country’s civil aviation authority (SSCAA) said.…