BENIN’s new leader on Tuesday visited neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso, in a sign of easing tensions between his country…
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TWO people have been shot dead in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki amid protests against US plans to establish…
SOUTH African police warned anti-immigration groups Wednesday against taking the law into their own hands after two Mozambicans were killed…
TWO men from Mozambique were killed in South Africa’s Mossel Bay, authorities have said. In an earlier statement, the Mozambican…
AN international court on Monday rejected a claim by Rwanda for Britain to pay more than £100 million ($135 million),…
HEALTH authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are celebrating after five patients, who had Ebola and now recovered, were…
VOTING in Monday’s general election was suspended in parts of Ethiopia’s Oromia and Amhara regions due to security concerns, but…
POLLS have opened in Ethiopia’s general election as conflict rages in parts of the country, meaning many people will not…
POLICE in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to…
THE head of the United Nations health agency is visiting the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic…
RWANDA’s new nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia may look technical on paper, focused on science, nuclear medicine and energy, but…
THE parliament in Ghana has approved a new bill criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities. Identifying as lesbian,…
EIGHT students alleged to have been involved in a suspected arson attack at a Kenyan girls’ school that killed 16…
THE death of 16 students in a fire on Thursday has once again sparked concerns over the safety of Kenya’s…
ONGOING conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hampering the Ebola outbreak response, the head of the World Health…
THE first flight of Ghanaian nationals evacuated from South Africa over anti-immigrant tensions was en route to Accra on Wednesday,…
SENEGAL’s former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who was dramatically sacked on Friday by the president, has been elected Speaker of…
THE countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo are at high risk from Ebola and should act immediately to counter…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has started a legal challenge against a report commissioned by parliament that has paved the…
THE director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been 220 suspected deaths in the current Ebola outbreak…