PROMINENT Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has been detained by police on charges of inciting violence after six masked…
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AT least 50 people have been killed in a single attack by Sudanese paramilitaries who have besieged and raided villages…
BOTSWANA’s governing party – in power for almost six decades – is trying to pull off a trick in Wednesday’s…
OUTRAGE has erupted on social media after Somalia’s Family Minister Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama shared photos on X of himself…
A UGANDAN court has sentenced a former commander in the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to 40 years in prison…
MOZAMBIQUE’s ruling party, Frelimo, has won the country’s divisive, violence-marred election, extending its 49-year grip on power in the southern…
NIGER’s former prime minister Hama Amadou, known as “the Phoenix” for his talent for political comebacks, has died in Niamey…
BRITISH actor Idris Elba has told the BBC that he will relocate to Africa within the next decade as part…
SOUTH African rugby star Siya Kolisi and his wife Rachel have announced their divorce after more than a decade together,…
RUSSIA’s embassy in Sudan has said it is investigating reports that a cargo plane with Russian crew was shot down…
THE Speaker of Ghana’s parliament has suspended proceedings indefinitely following chaotic scenes in the chamber over a row about which…
CAMEROON’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has been seen in public for the first time in six weeks amid speculation about…
MOROCCO’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said Monday that a recent proposal by a United Nations envoy to partition the disputed…
EGYPT has been certified as malaria free, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling the achievement “truly historic” and the…
THE WHO chief on Sunday urged Rwanda to keep up its fightback against Marburg, as the country battles an outbreak…
A BRITISH national has told the BBC that he and several Turkish citizens were abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi…
THE lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in October 9 elections, was gunned down…
SOME 1,100 people across Africa have died from mpox, the African Union’s health agency said Thursday, warning that the epidemic…
KENYA’s parliament on Friday unanimously voted to back President William Ruto’s pick to replace his impeached deputy Rigathi Gachagua, even…
NIGER’s military authorities have banned rice, cereal and other food exports to all countries except fellow junta-led Burkina Faso and…