SIERRA Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday that drug abuse in the country was a “national emergency”, outlining plans…
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THE head of Niger’s military government on Thursday ordered the dissolution of all local councils and put an army officer…
SOUTH Africa’s ex-Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been charged with 12 counts of corruption and one count of money…
AN 80-year-old US woman has been killed by an “aggressive” elephant, after it charged at a vehicle during a safari…
LEFT-WING pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday became Senegal’s youngest president, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and…
ZIMBABWE declared drought a national disaster on Wednesday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the country needs $2 billion in aid…
SOUTH Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday filed an appeal against a decision by electoral officials barring him from…
KENYA’s largest referral hospital on Tuesday said it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that…
BASSIROU Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in Tuesday as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka on Monday became the African nation’s first woman prime minister,…
ETHIOPIA’s largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m (£12m) it lost in a glitch that allowed…
IN the closing moments of the electoral campaign, Senegal’s president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, stepped onto the stage holding the hands…
TWO people died and almost 2,000 were left homeless when fires engulfed hundreds of shacks in three separate incidents in…
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…