FRANCE began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, the country’s defence ministry said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military…
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MALARIA has been identified as the likeliest cause of an illness that has killed more than 80 people in south-western…
MALAWI’s government is demanding the astonishing sum of $309bn (£245bn) in unpaid taxes and royalties from a US-based gemstone company…
A LARGE blaze ravaged parts of Liberia’s parliament building on Wednesday, a day after tense protests erupted following months of…
MAURITIUS says it has submitted changes to a proposed deal over the future of the Chagos Islands, with the country’s…
DR CONGO on Tuesday filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing them of illegally using…
NAMIBIA’s state-owned telecoms company has fallen victim to what is known as a ransomware attack resulting in the leak of…
THE Senegalese government said Saturday it will investigate dozens of deaths resulting from political violence between 2021 and 2024, despite…
AT least seven people were killed Sunday in an attack in central Mali, the local diocese and a civil society…
THIRTY-NINE people have been killed in two attacks in recent days in western Niger, near the border with Burkina Faso,…
A LEADING Togo opposition party has said it will refuse to take part in the country’s first elections for the…
NAMIBIA’s main opposition party said on Saturday that it plans to file a legal challenge against the results of last…
OPPOSITION groups in Guinea say they are outraged at an announcement by the junta that the transition to democratic rule…
NIGER Rpublic’s military government has suspended the BBC for three months, accusing it of spreading fake news that could destabilise…
RWANDA is bidding to host a Formula 1 grand prix, the country’s President Paul Kagame says. F1 is keen to…
ETHIOPIA and Somalia have agreed to end their bitter dispute over Addis Ababa’s plans to build a port in the…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni, 80, has defended the use of military courts to try civilians – following an outcry over…
A COURT in France has found French-Cameroonian author Charles Onana guilty of downplaying the Rwandan genocide. The 60-year-old writer was…
POLICE in Ghana have arrested more than 100 people – mostly opposition supporters of President-elect John Mahama – over acts…
ZAMBIA’s top court has barred former President Edgar Lungu from standing for re-election in 2026. The Constitutional Court ruled that…