TWENTY-SIX more bodies have been recovered from the ferry that capsized on a lake in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, increasing the…
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MALI says 82 of its soldiers held as prisoners by armed groups in the country’s north have been released into…
ZAMBIANS are voting in an election to choose a president and parliament, with more than eight million voters registered to…
AT least 44 people have died after a ferry sank on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, police have said.…
THE current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak of…
SOUTH African police have launched an investigation after 14 suspected illegal miners died when a mine dump site collapsed on…
ZAMBIANS vote on August 13 in general elections widely seen as a test of whether years of economic reform have…
THE fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, said the World…
THE authorities in Mali say their soldiers killed dozens of militant Islamists as they repelled an attack on a military…
THE Djidji Ayokwe, a sacred “talking drum” which was looted by French colonial troops in 1916 and taken to France,…
THE Republic of Chad says it will remove entry visa requirements for all African nationals, with the policy taking effect…
CAMEROON’s veteran leader Paul Biya – who has not been seen in public for nearly two months – has reshuffled…
UGANDANS are mourning the death at 27 of one of the country’s best-known footballers after he was beaten by suspected…
FOR Heritier Ramazani, being counted is about more than a population figure. It could be the first time the Congolese…
THE editor-in-chief of a leading Ethiopian independent news site was abducted and assaulted by security forces, according to its owner.…
CONGOLESE authorities are carrying out Ebola and cholera screening for all 255 passengers aboard a boat intercepted on the Congo…
BETWEEN 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in the Spanish territory of Ceuta following the arrival of many times that number…
SOUTH Africa’s foreign minister wants new rules and “more transparency” to apply to former heads of state undertaking foreign trips.…
SEVERAL athletes have disappeared after competing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, failing to return home with the rest of…
THE death toll from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak has risen above 1,700, as the…