ELECTION day has arrived in Ghana, where a debt crisis and high living costs mean the economy is uppermost in…
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HUNDREDS of people staged a rally in N’Djamena on Friday to support a Chad government call last week to scrap…
A FAN of English football club Arsenal, who was celebrating the team’s victory over Manchester United, has allegedly been shot…
TOGO will hold its first elections for the upper house of parliament, the senate, on February 2, one of the…
AT least 79 people have died from an unknown disease that is causing flu-like symptoms in south-western Democratic Republic of…
FRENCH nuclear firm Orano says the military authorities in Niger have taken control of its uranium mining operations in the…
NETOMBO Nandi-Ndaitwah has been elected Namibia’s president and will be the country’s first female leader, results released by the country’s…
AN estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found…
AT least 56 people were killed in “deadly stampedes” at a football match in Guinea’s second-largest city of N’Zerekore, a…
PROTESTS that have led to weeks of clashes with Mozambique’s security forces need to continue for “maybe two to three…
NAMIBIA’s main opposition party has said it will not recognise results from this week’s general election, where there have been…
POLICE in Tanzania are investigating the reported kidnapping of opposition youth leader Abdul Nondo. The ACT Wazalendo party said Nondo…
FRANCE has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which dozens –…
ERITREAN residents in Ethiopia’s capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who…
ONE of Africa’s best known musicians – the Malian singer Rokia Traoré – has reportedly been imprisoned in Belgium as…
AT least 113 people are missing, and at least 15 people are known to have died after a landslide in…
A POWER cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights…
MALAWI’s President Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday announced measures to tackle a fuel crisis and hunger, while condemning political violence in…
THE incoming regional director of the World Health Organization in Africa, Tanzania’s Dr Faustine Ndugulile, has died, just three months…
EGYPTIAN rescuers found four bodies and five survivors on Tuesday during a Red Sea search operation after a tourist boat…