KENYA has plunged in the latest rankings of how open it is to visitors from other African countries despite introducing…
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EGYPTIAN authorities said 17 people including foreigners were missing after a tourist yacht capsized off the country’s Red Sea coast…
ON a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering…
AT least 24 people have died after two boats carrying mostly Somali nationals capsized off the coast of Madagascar, local…
WAR-STRICKEN Sudan is in danger of becoming another failed state because civil society is disintegrating amid a proliferation of armed…
CONFUSION and mystery linger in South Sudan after the home of once-powerful former spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc was…
MEDICS at the epicentre of the mpox outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC there has…
THE mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were strikingly young – children shedding tears as they bade…
A FAMINE-STRICKEN camp housing about 500,000 displaced people in Sudan has received its first convoy of aid in months. The…
THIS year’s winner of France’s biggest book prize is being sued in Algeria over claims he stole the story from…
SOUTH Africa’s central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent, adopting caution…
VETERAN Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on Wednesday accused of seeking to compromise…
MALI’s junta chief on Wednesday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a…
THE opposition leader of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has won the territory’s presidential election. More popularly…
KENYA’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money…
AN overwhelming majority of Gabonese people have voted for a new constitution, military authorities say, in a move that marks…
A 21-YEAR-OLD has become the latest Ugandan TikToker to be sent to prison after creating a video that was said…
SOUTH African police say they will continue to arrest any illegal miners who emerge from a disused gold mine where…
POLLS have opened in Senegal’s parliamentary elections as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye aims for a resounding majority to see through…
A SOUTH African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds,…