MARKUS Jooste, the former head of the Steinhoff retail group that was at the centre of a huge corporate fraud…
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A RWANDAN-BORN man has been arrested in Ohio on charges of hiding his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Federal…
FORMER prime minister Amadou Ba has stepped out of the shadows telling supporters the “bandits” will not win as he…
A SOUTH African bank said on Wednesday a court had ordered a halt to outgoing payments from ex-president Jacob Zuma’s…
SENEGAL’s president has told the BBC he does not regret delaying this year’s elections, a move that sparked deadly protests.…
AN ELITE unit of South Africa’s police has raided the Johannesburg home of the speaker of parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, over…
UGANDAN security forces are on high alert after they said fighters from an IS-linked group entered the country at the…
A BILL seeking to decriminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in The Gambia has passed its latest parliamentary stage, known as…
ALL schools have been ordered to close in South Sudan, as it prepares for a heatwave in which temperatures could…
NIGER’s junta has ended a military agreement that allowed US personnel to be deployed in the country. Saturday’s announcement came…
HEAVY fighting has erupted in the Sudanese city of Bahri between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).…
EGYPT’s’s Al-Ahram Studio, which is one of the oldest in the world, has been destroyed in a fire. It took…
KENYAN Lawmakers are investigating the recent recruitment of tax revenue workers after it emerged that some applicants were rejected after…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo has restored capital punishment, particularly for treason and “banditry”, as it deals with increased rebel…
SENEGAL’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate he is backing in this month’s delayed election, Bassirou Diomaye Faye,…
MILITANTS from the al-Shabab group have attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, security sources and…
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Apostolic prophet who kept 251 children on his property has been charged with exploiting minors. Police said that…
A COURT in Rwanda has blocked efforts by prominent opposition figure Victoire Ingabire to lift a ban on her running…
THREE Egyptian Coptic monks have been “brutally killed” inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla…
SOLDIERS from Sudan’s army have recaptured the headquarters of the state broadcaster in Omdurman, the city just across the Nile…