THE Kenyan government plans to raise about $1.2 billion by reinstating some unpopular taxes contained in a finance bill that…
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SUDAN has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in…
TENS of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc…
THE international mediators engaged in talks to bring Sudan’s war to an end have welcomed decisions by the warring sides…
BURUNDI on Friday freed journalist Floriane Irangabiye, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly “undermining the…
THREE Zimbabwean activists who were arrested in dramatic fashion after being forced off an aeroplane last month have been denied…
US-LED talks on the 16-month civil war in Sudan opened in Switzerland on Wednesday, with the discussion centring on humanitarian…
SOUTH African prosecutors have dropped charges against 95 Libyans who were arrested on suspicion of receiving training at an illegal…
SENEGAL President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday called for “appropriate recovery measures” for the national press, following sweeping strikes by…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir held talks with political leaders to discuss the feasibility of holding long-delayed elections due to…
SENGALESE commuters hoping to browse the news on their way to work were left disappointed on Tuesday – most national…
KENYAN journalist Rukia Bulle has won the 2024 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 30-year-old, who is the ninth recipient…
THE United Nations chief has called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reform its outdated structure and assign Africa…
THE leader of a Kenyan starvation sect went on trial for manslaughter on Monday over the deaths of more than…
A LANDSLIDE at a rubbish dump in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, has killed at least 18 people, authorities have reported as…
PAUL Kagame has been sworn in for a fourth term as Rwanda’s president after winning 99% of the vote in…
A US court has convicted a Mozambican former finance minister over a 10-year-old conspiracy that triggered the worst economic crisis…
GLOBALLY, freedom of expression is enshrined in international agreements, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “everyone…
A BRITISH terror suspect has been deported to the UK after completing a lengthy prison sentence in Kenya. Jermaine Grant,…
THE family of an 11-year-old girl allegedly killed by a US diplomat in Zimbabwe in a road accident in June…