FRANCE has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which dozens –…
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ERITREAN residents in Ethiopia’s capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who…
ONE of Africa’s best known musicians – the Malian singer Rokia Traoré – has reportedly been imprisoned in Belgium as…
AT least 113 people are missing, and at least 15 people are known to have died after a landslide in…
A POWER cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights…
MALAWI’s President Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday announced measures to tackle a fuel crisis and hunger, while condemning political violence in…
THE incoming regional director of the World Health Organization in Africa, Tanzania’s Dr Faustine Ndugulile, has died, just three months…
EGYPTIAN rescuers found four bodies and five survivors on Tuesday during a Red Sea search operation after a tourist boat…
KENYA has plunged in the latest rankings of how open it is to visitors from other African countries despite introducing…
EGYPTIAN authorities said 17 people including foreigners were missing after a tourist yacht capsized off the country’s Red Sea coast…
ON a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering…
AT least 24 people have died after two boats carrying mostly Somali nationals capsized off the coast of Madagascar, local…
WAR-STRICKEN Sudan is in danger of becoming another failed state because civil society is disintegrating amid a proliferation of armed…
CONFUSION and mystery linger in South Sudan after the home of once-powerful former spy chief Gen Akol Koor Kuc was…
MEDICS at the epicentre of the mpox outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC there has…
THE mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were strikingly young – children shedding tears as they bade…
A FAMINE-STRICKEN camp housing about 500,000 displaced people in Sudan has received its first convoy of aid in months. The…
THIS year’s winner of France’s biggest book prize is being sued in Algeria over claims he stole the story from…
SOUTH Africa’s central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent, adopting caution…
VETERAN Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on Wednesday accused of seeking to compromise…