BENIN forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have…
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AT least 19 people have been killed in Chad where security forces said they had prevented an attempt by armed…
THE US has accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide and imposed sanctions on its leader.…
SENEGAL and Chad have reacted strongly to remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron about African countries being ungrateful over France’s…
PORT authorities in Ivory Coast have dismissed safety fears about a moored boat loaded with 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate,…
THREE Chinese nationals have been arrested with 12 gold bars and $800,000 (£650,000) in cash in eastern Democratic Republic of…
FIVE young Kenyan men – including a popular cartoonist – who went missing just before the Christmas holidays have been…
AT least eight civilians have been killed in central Mali, several sources said on Sunday, accusing the Malian army and…
M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken control of a strategic town in the…
THE diplomatic dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia that had led to tense regional relations has been resolved, Somalia’s foreign minister…
DANDY Krazy, one of Zambia’s most popular musicians, has died from injuries caused by a road collision on New Year’s…
ALL African passport holders are now able to visit Ghana without needing a visa, outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo has said.…
A MAGNITUDE 5.5 earthquake struck northern Ethiopia Friday, where a volcano erupted after months of increased seismic activity, the European-Mediterranean…
A DRUNKEN police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new…
AN eight-year-old boy has been found alive after surviving five days in a game park inhabited by lions and elephants…
MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane has called for unity ahead of a fresh round of protests against the outcome…
GUANTANAMO Bay inmate Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been repatriated to Tunisia, the US Department of Defense says. He was…
IVORY Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military influence of…
ZIMBABWE’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state with immediate…
ON December 9, an army air attack hit a fuel station in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killing at least 28 people…