THE United Nations on Tuesday reported deadly clashes in northern South Sudan which killed civilians and left a peacekeeper wounded.…
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UGANDA has reversed a controversial plan to hold a military trial for a prominent opposition leader due to his failing…
MAURITIUS’ former Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has been released on bail following his dramatic arrest on Saturday on money laundering…
MORE than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday. The collapse…
RWANDAN-BACKED M23 rebels have entered Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the regional governor’s…
SUDAN’s military captured a major bridge connecting the east of the capital Khartoum to the south, days after it reclaimed…
CHAOTIC scenes have been unfolding in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the M23 rebel group continues its…
M23 rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are closing in on a second major city, Bukavu,…
IN the bustling heart of Cairo, coffee shops teem with Gazans who managed to flee at the start of Israel’s…
A KENYAN court on Thursday sentenced a former county governor to 12 years in prison for corruption, alongside his wife…
LIBERIAN President Joseph Boakai has suspended more than 450 top government officials, including ministers, for failing to declare their assets…
GHANA’s former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has been declared a fugitive by prosecutors over his alleged involvement in multiple corruption…
A PARAMILITARY force in Sudan has stormed the country’s largest displacement camp, looting and setting fire to the market and…
THE Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull in fighting.…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked two of his vice-presidents, the country’s spy chief and other senior officials. The…
NIGER’s deposed president Mohamed Bazoum has been “arbitrarily” detained in the west African country with his wife since his ouster…
A DELUGE of more than 20,000 queries crashed the email server of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the…
LIBYA authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, in the latest tragedy…
THE first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95 in the capital Windhoek, the…
A SUMMIT of African leaders meeting to address the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday called for…