MOROCCO has recorded a case of mpox in the tourist city of Marrakesh, the first in North Africa since the…
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THE United States called Thursday for two permanent seats on the UN Security Council to be reserved for African nations,…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said he would sign into law a disputed education bill, prompting the first sign…
CASES of the mpox virus have killed two people in Cameroon since April with six further and 40 other suspected…
HUNDREDS of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main airport after workers went on strike in protest at a planned…
AT least 26 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Senegal’s coast. Authorities say more than 100…
MEDICAL staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the…
TANZANIA’s Presdident Samia Suluhu Hassan has denounced the brutal killing of a senior member of the main opposition party Chadema,…
AUTHORITIES in Guinea-Bissau say they have seized 2.63 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane at the capital’s…
SUDAN’s military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to…
ALGERIA’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, has been re-elected to the position with an emphatic vote, says the country’s electoral…
DNA testing will begin on Monday to identify the bodies of children who died in a fire at a Kenyan…
THIRTEEN people have been killed and 45 injured in a road accident in northern Ivory Coast, after a tanker truck…
A FIRE ripped through the dormitory of a boarding school in central Kenya, killing 17 boys who were sleeping and…
CHINESE President Xi Jinping has pledged to create “at least” one million jobs in Africa as he seeks to position…
CHINESE leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising…
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo has received its first batch of mpox vaccines, which health authorities hope will help…
THE 21-year-old daughter of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is marrying the Eswatini king for love, a spokesman for…
THE man who had been chief engineer at South Africa’s state-owned passenger rail company has been sentenced to 15 years…
NEARLY 60 percent of young Africans want to leave their countries because their governments are not reining in corruption, according…