SUDAN’s air force has carried out bombings in which at least 1,700 civilians have died in attacks on residential neighbourhoods,…
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TWO senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday’s attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told…
BENIN’s President Patrice Talon says the government and armed forces have thwarted an attempted coup in the West African nation…
SUDAN faces a “massive” humanitarian aid crisis, with millions of starving people being denied access to vital food supplies as…
THE death toll from an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a kindergarten and other sites in the…
AT least 11 people including a three-year-old child have been killed in a mass shooting at a hostel in South…
FIGHTING has flared up again in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between the M23 rebel group…
NAMIBIA’s proposals to lift the ban on the international trade in black and white rhino horns have been rejected at…
PROMINENT Tanzanian activist Mange Kimambi has accused the government of instigating the removal of her social media accounts that she…
THE leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal aimed at ending the long-running…
KENYA’s parliament has accused British soldiers of decades of sexual abuse, killings, human rights violations and environmental destruction while training…
WRAPPING up his first international trip as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he would like to visit Algeria in…
POPULAR Zambian-American influencer and political vlogger has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for hate speech for making insulting…
A RADIO presenter with South Africa’s public broadcaster has appeared in court on a charge related to the alleged recruitment…
LEFT-WING Cameroonian opposition figure Anicet Ekane has died in detention, five weeks after he was arrested, his lawyers and party…
A DELEGATION from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has visited Guinea-Bissau for mediation talks with leaders of…
SOUTH African police have arrested four Russia-bound men at Johannesburg’s airport suspected of having signed up to fight for the…
SENEGAL’s prime minister and Nigeria’s former president have both said they believe the ousting of Guinea-Bissau’s president this week was…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has travelled to the Republic of Congo, the AFP and Associated Press news agencies…
TUNISIAN police have arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa at a protest in the capital Tunis on Saturday, lawyers said.…