SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation -…
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REBELS from the Rwanda-backed M23 have killed a military governor as they advanced through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the…
MOZAMBIQUE’s police chief Bernadino Rafael has been sacked, following allegations of brutality during October’s disputed election and its aftermath. He…
MILITARY governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, yesterday, announced that their common travel passport would come into effect from…
HUNDREDS of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial…
SOUTH Sudan on Wednesday ordered internet providers to block social media platforms, including Facebook and TikTok, following violent protests over…
POLICE in Kenya have arrested a man carrying a mutilated corpse in his backpack, which he reportedly said belonged to…
THE head of Libya’s judicial police has been arrested after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant over war…
RWANDA-BACKED M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken over the key eastern trading town of Minova, according…
TANZANIA’s president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied…
AT least seven people have been killed in a clash with soldiers on duty at a mine in the central…
THE Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 50-year-old Nigerian man,…
KENYA has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb gang violence plaguing…
SEVEN years after their baby daughter was killed during a brutal midnight operation by police in Kenya at a time…
Mozambique’s new President Daniel Chapo has been sworn in at a low-key ceremony in the capital, Maputo, that was marred…
SIERRA Leone has recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Guinea after seven suitcases containing suspected cocaine were found in an embassy…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own…
TANZANIA has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in…
THE US government has imposed sanctions on the head of Sudan’s army and de facto president, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,…
THE World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns over a suspected outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Tanzania, particularly…