SOUTH Africa’s central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent, adopting caution…
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VETERAN Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared in a military court in Kampala on Wednesday accused of seeking to compromise…
MALI’s junta chief on Wednesday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a…
THE opposition leader of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has won the territory’s presidential election. More popularly…
KENYA’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money…
AN overwhelming majority of Gabonese people have voted for a new constitution, military authorities say, in a move that marks…
A 21-YEAR-OLD has become the latest Ugandan TikToker to be sent to prison after creating a video that was said…
SOUTH African police say they will continue to arrest any illegal miners who emerge from a disused gold mine where…
POLLS have opened in Senegal’s parliamentary elections as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye aims for a resounding majority to see through…
A SOUTH African court on Saturday ordered an end to the police blockade of a former gold mine, where hundreds,…
AT least five people were killed and dozens injured after a four-storey building collapsed in the centre of Tanzania’s commercial…
MOZAMBIQUE’s government has banned protests following sustained post-election unrest that has left several people dead and dozens others injured. It…
DOZENS of volunteers have entered an abandoned gold mine in South Africa to help what could be thousands of illegal…
AN international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been…
AN estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water…
RUSSIA has reportedly sent up to 200 troops to Equatorial Guinea to protect the presidency, as it continues to expand…
NIGER Republic wants Russian firms to invest in uranium and other natural resource production, its mining minister said on Wednesday,…
TWO popular Ugandans have been detained for allegedly insulting President Yoweri Museveni, the first lady Janet Museveni and the president’s…
A JOURNALIST detained in Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his…
THE prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary…