SEVERAL African countries have called on Israel to show restraint as its war cabinet meets to decide whether to retaliate…
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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…
A SOUTH African court on Tuesday ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can stand in looming general elections, overturning a…
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…