AT least seven people were killed Sunday in an attack in central Mali, the local diocese and a civil society…
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THIRTY-NINE people have been killed in two attacks in recent days in western Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso,…
A LEADING Togo opposition party has said it will refuse to take part in the country’s first elections for the…
NAMIBIA’s main opposition party said on Saturday that it plans to file a legal challenge against the results of last…
OPPOSITION groups in Guinea say they are outraged at an announcement by the junta that the transition to democratic rule…
NIGER Rpublic’s military government has suspended the BBC for three months, accusing it of spreading fake news that could destabilise…
RWANDA is bidding to host a Formula 1 grand prix, the country’s President Paul Kagame says. F1 is keen to…
ETHIOPIA and Somalia have agreed to end their bitter dispute over Addis Ababa’s plans to build a port in the…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni, 80, has defended the use of military courts to try civilians – following an outcry over…
A COURT in France has found French-Cameroonian author Charles Onana guilty of downplaying the Rwandan genocide. The 60-year-old writer was…
POLICE in Ghana have arrested more than 100 people – mostly opposition supporters of President-elect John Mahama – over acts…
ZAMBIA’s top court has barred former President Edgar Lungu from standing for re-election in 2026. The Constitutional Court ruled that…
SUDAN’s military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur…
SENEGAL’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is “making progress” in a mediation mission with junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali…
THE UK and US governments have imposed sanctions on a British-Kenyan businessman over his alleged involvement in the illicit gold…
GHANA’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat in Saturday’s elections, congratulating opposition leader and former President John Mahama on his…
A NOTORIOUS far-right extremist, convicted of murdering South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani, is set to be deported to his…
GHANA’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday’s election and congratulated the opposition candidate, former President John Mahama, on…
BURKINA Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has sacked his Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the…
MORE than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say…