THE Speaker of Ghana’s parliament has suspended proceedings indefinitely following chaotic scenes in the chamber over a row about which…
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CAMEROON’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has been seen in public for the first time in six weeks amid speculation about…
MOROCCO’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said Monday that a recent proposal by a United Nations envoy to partition the disputed…
EGYPT has been certified as malaria free, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling the achievement “truly historic” and the…
THE WHO chief on Sunday urged Rwanda to keep up its fightback against Marburg, as the country battles an outbreak…
A BRITISH national has told the BBC that he and several Turkish citizens were abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi…
THE lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in October 9 elections, was gunned down…
SOME 1,100 people across Africa have died from mpox, the African Union’s health agency said Thursday, warning that the epidemic…
KENYA’s parliament on Friday unanimously voted to back President William Ruto’s pick to replace his impeached deputy Rigathi Gachagua, even…
NIGER’s military authorities have banned rice, cereal and other food exports to all countries except fellow junta-led Burkina Faso and…
THE Kenyan Senate voted on Thursday to oust Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a historic impeachment vote. The upper house…
NIGER’s military leaders have renamed streets and monuments bearing French names, in the latest move to cut links with the…
KENYA’s parliament has begun the final step to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office just two years after he…
MILLIONS of people across Southern Africa are going hungry due to a historic drought, risking a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe, the…
UKRAINE has denied allegations that it had supplied drones to rebels fighting against the Malian army and Russia-backed mercenaries. It…
STRIKING images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid,…
THE Duchess of Edinburgh has described distressing scenes of sexual exploitation, after meeting refugees from Sudan’s civil war who had…
ONE by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a hodge-podge of solar panels and other gizmos –…
THE Sudanese military has carried out an air strike on a marketplace in the capital Khartoum, killing at least 23…
THE first black central bank governor of South Africa, who later went on to become finance minister, has died at…