MADAGASCAR’s President Andry Rajoelina has appointed Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister, as anti-government protests once again eruped in the…
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SEVEN al-Shabab militants who attacked a high-security prison in Somalia’s capital have all been killed, the country’s government has said.…
THE son of Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe has appeared in a Harare court charged with drug possession. Robert Mugabe…
MOROCCO is currently building what will be the globe’s largest football stadium in preparation for co-hosting the 2030 World Cup.…
SOUTH Africa’s highest court has unanimously ruled that all parents of new-borns are entitled to equal parental leave, a landmark…
MADAGASCAN President Andry Rajoelina condemned on Friday what he said was an attempt to topple his government, as fresh protests…
CHAD’s parliament on Friday overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment scrapping presidential term limits, in a move condemned by opponents of…
CENTRAL African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera on Thursday officially submitted his candidacy for elections later this year that he is…
TWO people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to “storm” a police station in…
SOUTH African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in…
AT least 30 people have died and more than 200 others been injured after scaffolding collapsed at a church in…
SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after…
A MILITARY court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for…
MADAGASCAR’s president, Andry Rajoelina, has dissolved his government in response to mass demonstrations over power and water shortages that turned…
A MOROCCAN airline, Royal Air Maroc, has paid the sanction fee imposed on the carrier by the Nigerian Civil Aviation…
NAMIBIA says it is sending in helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a fire that has ravaged a third…
JAPAN’s foreign aid agency said it is cancelling an exchange programme with African nations following protests and a political backlash.…
MORE than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job…
THE BBC understands the boss of a degrading sex-trade ring that exploited vulnerable women in Dubai’s most glamorous neighbourhoods has…
NAMIBIA’s authorities have warned people not to hold parties at cemeteries after a social gathering at a gravesite in the…