A MAJOR player on South Africa’s political landscape for more than a decade, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been…
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BERHANE Abrehe – a former Eritrean finance minister and fierce critic of the country’s president – has died in prison,…
SUDAN’s warring parties have ended peace talks in Switzerland by agreeing to improve access for humanitarian aid, with two routes…
THE second-largest diamond ever found – a rough 2,492-carat stone – has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says a convoy of humanitarian aid has entered the Sudanese region of Darfur, offering temporary…
THE last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo has been released back into the wild after 40 years of captivity.…
QATAR Airways has acquired a 25% stake in the privately owned South African carrier Airlink. The announcement was made Tuesday…
EIGHT police officers in Kenya have been suspended on suspicion of helping a suspected serial killer escape from custody, police…
“I want to go home,” Kenyan Eulita Jerop tells the BBC from Lebanon, where she is employed as a domestic…
MPOX cases and deaths are rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the central African country awaits vaccines…
THE Kenyan government plans to raise about $1.2 billion by reinstating some unpopular taxes contained in a finance bill that…
SUDAN has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in…
TENS of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc…
THE international mediators engaged in talks to bring Sudan’s war to an end have welcomed decisions by the warring sides…
BURUNDI on Friday freed journalist Floriane Irangabiye, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly “undermining the…
THREE Zimbabwean activists who were arrested in dramatic fashion after being forced off an aeroplane last month have been denied…
US-LED talks on the 16-month civil war in Sudan opened in Switzerland on Wednesday, with the discussion centring on humanitarian…
SOUTH African prosecutors have dropped charges against 95 Libyans who were arrested on suspicion of receiving training at an illegal…
SENEGAL President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Wednesday called for “appropriate recovery measures” for the national press, following sweeping strikes by…
SOUTH Sudan’s President Salva Kiir held talks with political leaders to discuss the feasibility of holding long-delayed elections due to…