HUNDREDS of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main airport after workers went on strike in protest at a planned…
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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…
UGANDAN athlete Rebecca Cheptegei is in a critical condition in a Kenyan hospital, after allegedly being doused with petrol and…
AUTHORITIES in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have said at least 129 people were killed while trying to…
TUNISIA’s electoral commission has approved just three candidates to run in next month’s presidential election ignoring a court ruling to…
NONE of the African countries affected by the outbreak of a new variant of mpox have received any of the…