THE International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has called for greater international support for Sudan, saying…
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THIRTY-FIVE people were killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese army on a traditional court session in the north…
RUSSIAN and Malian troops fighting against a rebel offensive in northern Mali have been resupplied with a vast number of…
A PASSENGER bus has crashed into a ravine in northern Algeria, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others,…
FIGHTING has broken out in western Tigray, in one of the most serious breaches yet of the three-year-old peace deal…
THE Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the biggest in the country’s history, the World Health Organization…
THOUSANDS of people turned back from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and returned to Morocco’s Fnideq began boarding buses home…
LIBERIAN President Joseph Boakai has dismissed a dozen senior government officials and recommended a handful for investigation following massive drug…
MEDICS have recorded more than 3,500 Ebola cases in several months in the Democratic Republic of Congo, topping the total…
UGANDAN opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in the capital, Kampala, after collapsing…
US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey says the school for girls that she launched in South Africa nearly 20 years will…
FIVE Kenyan security personnel have been killed while on patrol near the Somalia border in Mandera county by the armed…
A MAJOR fault on Ghana’s national power grid has triggered widespread outages, leaving the capital, Accra, the commercial hub of…
AN urgent investigation has been launched into the mysterious deaths of 14 elephants in southern Kenya near the Amboseli National…
AUTHORITIES in Uganda have declared the country free of Ebola, as infections from the viral haemorrhagic disease continue to surge…
CHAD announced on Monday it planned to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying its effectiveness was “limited and…
SENEGALESE President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a new political party, formalising his split with former ally Ousmane Sonko and…
SOUTH Africa has dismissed as “opportunistic” a petition filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) by two Ghanaians seeking an…
INDIA’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string…
THE death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surged above 1,354, an extraordinary…