KENYA has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb gang violence plaguing…
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SEVEN years after their baby daughter was killed during a brutal midnight operation by police in Kenya at a time…
Mozambique’s new President Daniel Chapo has been sworn in at a low-key ceremony in the capital, Maputo, that was marred…
SIERRA Leone has recalled its ambassador from neighbouring Guinea after seven suitcases containing suspected cocaine were found in an embassy…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own…
TANZANIA has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in…
THE US government has imposed sanctions on the head of Sudan’s army and de facto president, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,…
THE World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns over a suspected outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in Tanzania, particularly…
A KENYAN government minister has alleged that the country’s national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last…
AT least 120 people are reported to have been killed in random shelling on Monday in the Dar-Salam area of…
A STATUE of Ghana’s immediate former President, Nana Akufo-Addo, put up at the end of last year has been destroyed.…
DISTURBING videos have emerged showing the dire situation at a disused gold mine in South Africa where scores of illegal…
GHANA’s government will investigate controversial plans to build a $400m (£330m) national cathedral, new President John Mahama has said. Pressure…
NIGERIA has attracted $7.6bn in investment interests at the Africa Investment Forum 2024, held in Rabat, Morocco, from 4 to…
CHAD’s governing party has taken the majority of seats in last month’s parliamentary election that was mostly boycotted by opposition…
THE army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains…
SIERRA Leone has reported its first confirmed case of mpox since the world’s highest alert level for the potentially deadly…
UGANDA’s army chief and son of President Yoweri Museveni, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, announced he was quitting X on Friday after a…
SOUTH African police have rescued 26 migrants, believed to be from Ethiopia, who had been held captive in a house…
BURKINA Faso’s military leader Capt Ibrahim Traore sparked concern when he attended Tuesday’s inauguration of Ghana’s President John Mahama with…