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ETHIOPIA’s state-run power company has said large portions of the country have been hit by an electricity blackout due to…
A CYCLONE that hit northern Madagascar on Wednesday has left at least six people dead and forced 2,000 out of…
IN a rare visit, a Russian navy warship has arrived at Eritrea’s main Red Sea port of Massawa, amid tension…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been involved in a car crash but was unhurt. A drunk driver collided…
BRITISH MPs have warned that food aid is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s bitter civil conflict.…
IN NDIAGANIAO, a remote village in Senegal’s agricultural region, men from around the country flock to congratulate the father of…
FORTY-FIVE people have died in South Africa after the bus they were in plunged some 50m (165ft) off a bridge…
THE son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison…
FOUR people were sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid…
FOLLOWING the conclusion of collation of votes, Mr Diomaye Faye has officially been declared winner of the presidential election in…
THE Ugandan government has instructed all civil servants to spend two hours a week doing physical exercise to keep them…
ONE of Africa’s largest airlines, Kenya Airways, made an operating profit in 2023 – the first time since 2017. Chairman…
THE delegations from the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) have entered…
TROOPS from southern Africa’s regional bloc who were deployed to tackle an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique are to leave the…
OPPOSITION leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as favourite to win Senegal’s presidential election, after several rivals conceded. Millions took…
KENYAN authorities ignored “credible reports” about a doomsday cult in which more than 400 members were found buried in shallow…
AFTER weeks of political unrest, people in Senegal are voting for a new president. Seventeen candidates are on the ballot,…
A MASS grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for…
JUST hours after Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, made minor changes to his cabinet, he also appointed his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba,…