THE father of a teenager from Guinea with sickle cell disease who died days after he was arrested for cheating…
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A SOUTH African court ruled on Friday in favour of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid to pause impeachment proceedings against him…
A TANZANIAN university lecturer who was arrested earlier this month over allegations of inciting anti-government protests has now been charged…
THE warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) is dire: The current outbreak of the Ebola virus currently spreading in…
FORMER Kenyan county governor Okoth Obado has been found guilty of murdering a pregnant 26-year-old university student with whom he…
THE death toll from the latest Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the fastest spreading outbreak…
TWO Russians have been found guilty of terrorism and spying by a court in Angola’s capital, Luanda. Political consultant Igor…
AT least 143 refugees and migrants are dead or missing from a single boat off the coast of Mauritania that…
POLICE in Ethiopia say they have arrested 17 suspects including the alleged leader of what they say is a multi-million-dollar…
THE death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to at least…
EIGHT people died and nine others were injured in a crush during an evangelical gathering in Burundi’s largest city, Bujumbura.…
SENEGALESE President Bassirou Faye has been elected chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Faye was elected…
A FIRE that killed 11 people at an orphanage in Algeria’s capital was caused by an electrical spark from a…
MALI’s army says it has launched a counterattack after fighters linked to al-Qaeda and members of a separatist group ambushed…
A GHANAIAN TikToker has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to charges of offensive conduct and…
UGANDA’s government has suspended all school trips in the wake of Thursday evening’s bus crash that killed at least 20…
AN oil tanker has been seized off the coast of Yemen, in an attack the country’s coastguard says was carried…
A FIRE burning at an orphanage in Algeria’s capital has killed at least 11 people, including children, authorities said Thursday,…
THE last patient being treated for Ebola in Uganda has been discharged from hospital, leaving the country with no active…
SIERRA Leone’s government has dropped its charges, including treason, against ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was arrested in connection with…