AT least five people were killed and dozens injured after a four-storey building collapsed in the centre of Tanzania’s commercial…
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MOZAMBIQUE’s government has banned protests following sustained post-election unrest that has left several people dead and dozens others injured. It…
DOZENS of volunteers have entered an abandoned gold mine in South Africa to help what could be thousands of illegal…
AN international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been…
AN estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water…
RUSSIA has reportedly sent up to 200 troops to Equatorial Guinea to protect the presidency, as it continues to expand…
NIGER Republic wants Russian firms to invest in uranium and other natural resource production, its mining minister said on Wednesday,…
TWO popular Ugandans have been detained for allegedly insulting President Yoweri Museveni, the first lady Janet Museveni and the president’s…
A JOURNALIST detained in Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his…
THE prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary…
BURKINA Faso’s armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a…
POLICE in Ivory Coast’s largest city Abidjan have opened an investigation after two dead babies were found in a landfill…
NUMEROUS Chad troops have been killed in a clash with Boko Haram Insurgents in the Lake Chad region, the latest…
DEVASTATING flooding in South Sudan is affecting around 1.4 million people, with more than 379,000 displaced, according to a United…
WHAT the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in…
SOUTH Africa’s radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile…
BOTSWANA’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalised by granting them temporary work…
GHANA’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during…
CHAD’s military inflicted “many dead and wounded” in air strikes against Boko Haram Insurgents, President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said…
SOUTH Africa has closed one of its busiest border crossings with Mozambique following violent post-electoral protests in the neighbouring country.…