AT least two people have been killed by gunfire in Cameroon, as protesters rallied a day before the announcement of…
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TWO Cameroonian opposition figures and backers of presidential hopeful Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who challenged President Paul Biya’s 43-year grip on…
FORMER Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, who was ousted in a coup last week, has been stripped of his citizenship by…
GUINEANS have reacted with shock after it was announced that presidential candidates would need to pay a deposit of 875m…
NEARLY two-thirds of South Sudanese children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, with rates reaching as high…
GHANA’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has died at the age of 76. She was the widow of Ghana’s…
AT least 40 migrants, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, in one of…
FIVE French citizens have died while on a charitable mission in West Africa after their bus crashed off a bridge…
MORE than 20 civilians were killed by armed men on Sunday in Oromia, an Ethiopian region that has been enduring…
AN Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced opposition figure Fethi Ghares to two years in prison over a Facebook post judged…
A DRONE attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was…
MADAGASCAR’s new head of state on Monday named a civilian prime minister, following a military takeover last week that sent…
CAMEROON’s influential Catholic Church has called for calm, as fears grow that violence could erupt once official results from the…
FORMER Kenyan prime minister and revered long-time opposition leader Raila Odinga was buried in the west of the country after…
A FRENCH uranium mining company accused of partial responsibility for jihadists abducting some of its employees in the Niger Republic…
ZIMBABWE’s governing ZANU-PF has said it will begin a process to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years, potentially…
LIBERIA’s Education Ministry has blocked controversial plans to introduce mandatory drug testing in all of the country’s schools. Speaking to…
A JUDGE on Friday ordered the release on bail of Hannibal Kadhafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi, after…
COLONEL Michael Randrianirina has been sworn in as the new president of Madagascar days after a military takeover on the…
AT least two people have been killed after police in Kenya fired shots to disperse crowds of mourners gathered to…