KENYA’s former Chief Justice David Maraga has been arrested while protesting against, among other things, what activists are alleging is…
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THE speaker of Senegal’s parliament, Ousmane Sonko, a powerful mentor-turned-rival to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, won re-election Saturday as head…
PROTEESTERS gathered on Saturday at midday outside the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the…
NEARLY 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a WHO overview showed…
A DRONE strike on a market in central Sudan has killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more, according…
AT least 49 people have died of thirst in a remote part of the Sahara desert in northern Niger after…
GHANA has recorded 14 arrests linked to false news and offensive speech in less than 16 months, nearly double the…
GOVERNMENT forces and opposition fighters have exchanged heavy gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as a row over delays to elections…
BENIN’s new leader on Tuesday visited neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso, in a sign of easing tensions between his country…
TWO people have been shot dead in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki amid protests against US plans to establish…
SOUTH African police warned anti-immigration groups Wednesday against taking the law into their own hands after two Mozambicans were killed…
TWO men from Mozambique were killed in South Africa’s Mossel Bay, authorities have said. In an earlier statement, the Mozambican…
AN international court on Monday rejected a claim by Rwanda for Britain to pay more than £100 million ($135 million),…
HEALTH authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are celebrating after five patients, who had Ebola and now recovered, were…
VOTING in Monday’s general election was suspended in parts of Ethiopia’s Oromia and Amhara regions due to security concerns, but…
POLLS have opened in Ethiopia’s general election as conflict rages in parts of the country, meaning many people will not…
POLICE in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to…
THE head of the United Nations health agency is visiting the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic…
RWANDA’s new nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia may look technical on paper, focused on science, nuclear medicine and energy, but…
THE parliament in Ghana has approved a new bill criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities. Identifying as lesbian,…