MILITANTS insurgents in Burkina Faso have stepped up attacks on civilians, carrying out door-to-door killings, slitting throats and targeting Christian…
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GUNMEN attacked a military police base early Tuesday in the Malian capital Bamako where gunfire and explosions were heard and…
POLICE in Namibia are investigating the death of four children who were playing in an empty old freezer in the…
THE three West African countries run by military juntas will be launching a new biometric passports “in the coming days”…
RESCUERS in Sierra Leone are continuing to search for more survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Freetown,…
OLYMPIC marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set ablaze by her former boyfriend and later died has been buried in…
BOTSWANA’s former President Ian Khama has unexpectedly returned to the country after three years of self-imposed exile, appearing in court…
THE government of South Sudan is holding an emergency cabinet meeting hours after it announced that long-delayed national elections would…
A MAN who attacked Comoros President Azali Assoumani with a knife and injured him slightly has been found dead in…
THIRTY-SEVEN people – including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national – have been sentenced to death…
MOROCCO has recorded a case of mpox in the tourist city of Marrakesh, the first in North Africa since the…
THE United States called Thursday for two permanent seats on the UN Security Council to be reserved for African nations,…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said he would sign into law a disputed education bill, prompting the first sign…
CASES of the mpox virus have killed two people in Cameroon since April with six further and 40 other suspected…
HUNDREDS of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main airport after workers went on strike in protest at a planned…
AT least 26 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Senegal’s coast. Authorities say more than 100…
MEDICAL staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the…
TANZANIA’s Presdident Samia Suluhu Hassan has denounced the brutal killing of a senior member of the main opposition party Chadema,…
AUTHORITIES in Guinea-Bissau say they have seized 2.63 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane at the capital’s…
SUDAN’s military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to…