A SOUTH African court on Tuesday ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can stand in looming general elections, overturning a…
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UK LEADER Rishi Sunak and Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame reiterated Tuesday that they expect Britain to soon start sending undocumented…
MORE than 100 people have died in Mali because of an extreme heatwave that hit the country last month, reports…
THE death toll from the sinking of a makeshift ferry boat off the north coast of Mozambique has risen to…
RWANDA on Sunday paid solemn tribute to genocide victims, 30 years after a vicious campaign orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore…
SUDANESE paramilitary forces have killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum,…
SENEGAL’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a “breakaway” government on Friday, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles…
ZIMBABWE has introduced a new gold-backed currency called ZiG – the name stands for “Zimbabwe Gold”. It is the latest…
SIERRA Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday that drug abuse in the country was a “national emergency”, outlining plans…
THE head of Niger’s military government on Thursday ordered the dissolution of all local councils and put an army officer…
SOUTH Africa’s ex-Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been charged with 12 counts of corruption and one count of money…
AN 80-year-old US woman has been killed by an “aggressive” elephant, after it charged at a vehicle during a safari…
LEFT-WING pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday became Senegal’s youngest president, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and…
ZIMBABWE declared drought a national disaster on Wednesday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the country needs $2 billion in aid…
SOUTH Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from…
KENYA’s largest referral hospital on Tuesday said it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that…
BASSIROU Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in Tuesday as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka on Monday became the African nation’s first woman prime minister,…
ETHIOPIA’s largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m (£12m) it lost in a glitch that allowed…
IN the closing moments of the electoral campaign, Senegal’s president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, stepped onto the stage holding the hands…