MILITARY leader Mahamat Idriss Deby has won a closely watched presidential election in the country of Chad, according to provisional…
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A BOEIING 737-300 aircraft has skidded off a runway in Senegal, injuring at least 10 people, four of them seriously.…
KENYA’s government has signed a deal with striking doctors, the health ministry announced Wednesday, after almost two months of industrial…
THE South African electoral commission has rejected a request to remove former President Jacob Zuma as the leader of the…
THREE children are among four people reported missing after a five-storey apartment block collapsed in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday…
TOGO’s media regulator on Tuesday warned radio broadcaster Radio France Internationale that it would face suspension if it continued with…
A MULTI-STOREY building under construction in South Africa’s coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in…
A MAN was shot dead Monday after voting in Chad’s presidential election by an attacker who did not have an…
NEW Russian military advisors and military equipment have arrived in Niger, according to state television in the African country that…
THE Rwandan government won’t guarantee how many migrants it can take from the UK if flights start to depart. Rishi…
THE US has blamed the Rwandan army and M23 rebel group for the deadly bombing of a displacement camp in…
TWISTED scraps of metal, large splinters of wood and misplaced mattresses are all that remains of what were once people’s…
A MILITARY court in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers,…
LIBERIAN President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country’s first war crimes court, more than 20…
KENYAN President William Ruto on Thursday named Charles Muriu Kahariri as defence chief after the death of his predecessor in…
THE US is still engaged with Niger and Chad, despite withdrawing troops from the countries, the head of the US…
GHANA’s Asante King on Wednesday displayed for the first time dozens of royal artefacts looted during colonial rule, after they…
NEARLY a hundred tourists are among people marooned after rivers overflowed in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara wildlife reserve following a…
STATE TV in Mali says a senior Islamic State commander who had a $5m (£4m) US bounty on his head…
BRITAIN on Tuesday imposed sanctions on several Ugandan politicians, including the speaker of the East African country’s parliament, following claims…