A KENYAN government minister has alleged that the country’s national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last…
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AT least 120 people are reported to have been killed in random shelling on Monday in the Dar-Salam area of…
A STATUE of Ghana’s immediate former President, Nana Akufo-Addo, put up at the end of last year has been destroyed.…
DISTURBING videos have emerged showing the dire situation at a disused gold mine in South Africa where scores of illegal…
GHANA’s government will investigate controversial plans to build a $400m (£330m) national cathedral, new President John Mahama has said. Pressure…
NIGERIA has attracted $7.6bn in investment interests at the Africa Investment Forum 2024, held in Rabat, Morocco, from 4 to…
CHAD’s governing party has taken the majority of seats in last month’s parliamentary election that was mostly boycotted by opposition…
THE army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains…
SIERRA Leone has reported its first confirmed case of mpox since the world’s highest alert level for the potentially deadly…
UGANDA’s army chief and son of President Yoweri Museveni, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, announced he was quitting X on Friday after a…
SOUTH African police have rescued 26 migrants, believed to be from Ethiopia, who had been held captive in a house…
BURKINA Faso’s military leader Capt Ibrahim Traore sparked concern when he attended Tuesday’s inauguration of Ghana’s President John Mahama with…
BENIN forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have…
AT least 19 people have been killed in Chad where security forces said they had prevented an attempt by armed…
THE US has accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide and imposed sanctions on its leader.…
SENEGAL and Chad have reacted strongly to remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron about African countries being ungrateful over France’s…
PORT authorities in Ivory Coast have dismissed safety fears about a moored boat loaded with 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate,…
THREE Chinese nationals have been arrested with 12 gold bars and $800,000 (£650,000) in cash in eastern Democratic Republic of…
FIVE young Kenyan men – including a popular cartoonist – who went missing just before the Christmas holidays have been…
AT least eight civilians have been killed in central Mali, several sources said on Sunday, accusing the Malian army and…