BURKINA Faso’s armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a…
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POLICE in Ivory Coast’s largest city Abidjan have opened an investigation after two dead babies were found in a landfill…
NUMEROUS Chad troops have been killed in a clash with Boko Haram Insurgents in the Lake Chad region, the latest…
DEVASTATING flooding in South Sudan is affecting around 1.4 million people, with more than 379,000 displaced, according to a United…
WHAT the rest of the world sees as a sex tape scandal could in fact be the latest episode in…
SOUTH Africa’s radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile…
BOTSWANA’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalised by granting them temporary work…
GHANA’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during…
CHAD’s military inflicted “many dead and wounded” in air strikes against Boko Haram Insurgents, President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said…
SOUTH Africa has closed one of its busiest border crossings with Mozambique following violent post-electoral protests in the neighbouring country.…
A COURT in Rwanda has slapped a beauty queen with a three-month suspended sentence for drink-driving and driving without a…
A COURT in Kenyan has sentenced two men to 35 years each for the murder of Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat…
ZIMBABWE’s government has banned “with immediate effect” police officers from using mobile phones while working. The ban is contained in…
RWANDA said Monday it will no longer register petrol-driven motorbike taxis from the new year as it seeks to transition…
SUDAN’s army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with paramilitaries, has announced a cabinet reshuffle that replaces four ministers including…
A LIGHTNING strike at a refugee camp in Uganda has killed 13 children and one adult, police say. They say…
POLICE in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this…
GUINEA’s junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya has elevated himself to the rank of army general as the coup-hit West African country…
KENYA’s High Court has lifted an order blocking the swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki as deputy president following the impeachment of…
BOTSWANA’s new president took office Friday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed…