TWENTY-FIVE soldiers with the Democratic Republic of Congo’s army have been sentenced to death for fleeing battles against the notorious…
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AN attack blamed on Insurgents in central Mali killed more than 20 civilians on Monday, two local officials said, in…
MOBILE internet has been cut since Tuesday night in Mauritania’s capital, AFP journalists saw, after scuffles broke out following the…
A FORMER gangster and bank robber who turned into a nightclub owner and opposition politician, Gayton McKenzie has now risen…
MAURITANIA’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election with 56.12 per cent of the vote, the…
KENYA’s President William Ruto says the country will have to borrow more to keep the government running following the rejection…
PARAMILITARY forces battling Sudan’s army for more than a year say they have captured a key state capital in the…
HUNDREDS of people marched in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Sunday, to honour those who died in anti-government demonstrations this week,…
SOME 25.6 million people, or more than half of Sudan’s population, are facing high levels of “acute food insecurity”, a…
A HIGH Court in Kenya has ruled in favour of a petition demanding a halt to the use of potentially…
NEARLY a month since landmark national elections saw the African National Congress (ANC) lose its majority for the first time,…
MAURITANIA’s President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — who is seeking a second term in office in a vote on Saturday —…
PROTESTERS took to the streets of Kenya again on Thursday, with some calling for President William Ruto’s resignation despite his…
SOUTH Africa’s main coalition partners are at loggerheads just weeks after agreeing to share power, as President Cyril Ramaphosa accuses…
KENYA’s President William Ruto has said he will not sign a finance bill that led protesters to storm Parliament in…
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu…
SEVERAL people have been killed after police fired live rounds at protesters trying to storm Kenya’s legislature, where lawmakers voted…
A FORMER judge in South Africa, who was impeached for misconduct four months ago, has been sworn in as an…
THE head of the United Nations children’s agency, Unicef, says Sudan is one of the worst places in the world…
FAMOUS Malian singer Rokia Traoré has been arrested at the main international airport in Italy’s capital Rome over a conviction…