SUDAN’s military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur…
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SENEGAL’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said he is “making progress” in a mediation mission with junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali…
THE UK and US governments have imposed sanctions on a British-Kenyan businessman over his alleged involvement in the illicit gold…
GHANA’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat in Saturday’s elections, congratulating opposition leader and former President John Mahama on his…
A NOTORIOUS far-right extremist, convicted of murdering South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani, is set to be deported to his…
GHANA’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday’s election and congratulated the opposition candidate, former President John Mahama, on…
BURKINA Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has sacked his Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the…
MORE than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say…
ELECTION day has arrived in Ghana, where a debt crisis and high living costs mean the economy is uppermost in…
HUNDREDS of people staged a rally in N’Djamena on Friday to support a Chad government call last week to scrap…
A FAN of English football club Arsenal, who was celebrating the team’s victory over Manchester United, has allegedly been shot…
TOGO will hold its first elections for the upper house of parliament, the senate, on February 2, one of the…
AT least 79 people have died from an unknown disease that is causing flu-like symptoms in south-western Democratic Republic of…
FRENCH nuclear firm Orano says the military authorities in Niger have taken control of its uranium mining operations in the…
NETOMBO Nandi-Ndaitwah has been elected Namibia’s president and will be the country’s first female leader, results released by the country’s…
AN estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found…
AT least 56 people were killed in “deadly stampedes” at a football match in Guinea’s second-largest city of N’Zerekore, a…
PROTESTS that have led to weeks of clashes with Mozambique’s security forces need to continue for “maybe two to three…
NAMIBIA’s main opposition party has said it will not recognise results from this week’s general election, where there have been…
POLICE in Tanzania are investigating the reported kidnapping of opposition youth leader Abdul Nondo. The ACT Wazalendo party said Nondo…