ETHIOPIA’s parliament has approved the appointment of a new president to replace the country’s first female head of state, Sahle-Work…
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RWANDA has said it will begin vaccine trials for the fatal Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 12…
SOUTH African police have arrested three people in connection with the massacre of 18 relatives that took place in a…
POLLS closed Sunday night in Tunisia after voting in a presidential election expected to see incumbent Kais Saied secure another…
TUNISIA’s President Kais Saied, seen as a saviour by supporters and an autocrat by critics, is running for re-election on…
CHAD, a decades-old ally of France, is now cleverly playing off Russia and its traditional Western partners, deepening relations with…
AT least 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just…
Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start. A SOUTH African serial rapist – who assaulted children as young…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his powerful and long-serving spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc. He became head…
GHANA has recorded its first confirmed case of Mpox in 2024, health authorities said on Thursday, as the virus continues…
THE case of two black women who were allegedly shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer and two…
A TOP Sudanese general has said the army will press on with its offensive despite international efforts to broker a…
MEMBERS of parliament in Kenya have started the process of removing the country’s deputy president from office. Those who back…
AT least 45 people have died and dozens are missing after two vessels carrying refugees and migrants from Africa sank…
A COURT in Tanzania’s capital has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the gang rape and sodomy of a…
AN instant porridge has been withdrawn from sale in South Africa after three young children died reportedly after eating it.…
SIX people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus in Rwanda, the health minister has announced. Sabin Nsanzimana said…
IT was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at…
SEVENTEEN people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way…
A ROW between a prominent journalist and a king has captivated many in Ghana. It began when Afia Pokua criticised…