KENYA’s government has sent a team to investigate the helicopter crash that killed military chief Gen Francis Ogolla and nine…
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A TRAIN that Ghana recently acquired from Poland has collided with a lorry during a test run in the Eastern…
KENYA’s defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area…
BURKINA Faso’s military junta has expelled three French diplomats, accusing them of “subversive activities”. France said there were “no grounds”…
LEADERS from the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, have climbed down on their initial announcement that they were visiting Togo…
SIERRA Leone’s capital, Freetown, and other cities have been plunged into darkness for weeks, due to the non-payment of electricity…
THE opposition in Togo has denounced a proposed new constitution as a power grab, intended to extend the reign of…
MORE than 40 toddlers were taken to hospital in South Africa on Monday after mistaking rat poison for sweets. “Upon…
SEVERAL African countries have called on Israel to show restraint as its war cabinet meets to decide whether to retaliate…
A GROUP of civil and human rights groups in Kenya have demanded for an apology from the country’s police chief,…
SOMALI pirates have released a Bangladesh-flagged vessel and its 23-member crew after a ransom was reportedly paid. The MV Abdullah…
DOZENS of Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger as part of a new agreement with the country’s junta, which…
THOUSANDS of people in Niger’s capital on Saturday protested for the immediate departure of US soldiers from the north, after…
THE African Union on Saturday urged Mali to provide a post-coup transition ‘roadmap’, saying the move was needed to steer…
LIBERIA’s House of Representatives is investigating how former President George Weah’s asset declaration documents were leaked to the public. All…
AN aid agency working in Sudan has warned levels of hunger and malnutrition after a year of civil war are…
THE UK has returned dozens of artefacts looted from what is today Ghana – more than 150 years after they…
A TOP Ethiopian opposition figure has been shot dead and his body found on the side of a road in…
A “SOPHISTICATED internet fraud syndicate” has been uncovered in Zambia, leading to the arrest of 77 people, including 22 Chinese…
THE editor of a Togolese newspaper detained over a report about the death of a supporter of President Faure Gnassingbe…