KENYAN President William Ruto has landed in the Haitian capital to assess a Kenya-led security mission in the Caribbean nation,…
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SCHOOLS in Niger will start the new academic year almost a month late because of heavy rainfall and flooding, says…
A BRITISH businessman, who was a former contractor for South Africa’s ailing power utility Eskom, has been extradited from the…
GABON’s deposed President Ali Bongo has announced he will quit politics a year after he was toppled from power by…
GUINEA’s most wanted fugitive – a former senior military officer who escaped from prison last November – has been extradited…
THOUSANDS of supporters of Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have been protesting nationwide to demand an…
MILITANTS insurgents in Burkina Faso have stepped up attacks on civilians, carrying out door-to-door killings, slitting throats and targeting Christian…
GUNMEN attacked a military police base early Tuesday in the Malian capital Bamako where gunfire and explosions were heard and…
POLICE in Namibia are investigating the death of four children who were playing in an empty old freezer in the…
THE three West African countries run by military juntas will be launching a new biometric passports “in the coming days”…
RESCUERS in Sierra Leone are continuing to search for more survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Freetown,…
OLYMPIC marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set ablaze by her former boyfriend and later died has been buried in…
BOTSWANA’s former President Ian Khama has unexpectedly returned to the country after three years of self-imposed exile, appearing in court…
THE government of South Sudan is holding an emergency cabinet meeting hours after it announced that long-delayed national elections would…
A MAN who attacked Comoros President Azali Assoumani with a knife and injured him slightly has been found dead in…
THIRTY-SEVEN people – including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national – have been sentenced to death…
MOROCCO has recorded a case of mpox in the tourist city of Marrakesh, the first in North Africa since the…
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…