THE US has blamed the Rwandan army and M23 rebel group for the deadly bombing of a displacement camp in…
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TWISTED scraps of metal, large splinters of wood and misplaced mattresses are all that remains of what were once people’s…
A MILITARY court in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers,…
LIBERIAN President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country’s first war crimes court, more than 20…
KENYAN President William Ruto on Thursday named Charles Muriu Kahariri as defence chief after the death of his predecessor in…
THE US is still engaged with Niger and Chad, despite withdrawing troops from the countries, the head of the US…
GHANA’s Asante King on Wednesday displayed for the first time dozens of royal artefacts looted during colonial rule, after they…
NEARLY a hundred tourists are among people marooned after rivers overflowed in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara wildlife reserve following a…
STATE TV in Mali says a senior Islamic State commander who had a $5m (£4m) US bounty on his head…
BRITAIN on Tuesday imposed sanctions on several Ugandan politicians, including the speaker of the East African country’s parliament, following claims…
SOUTH Africa’s scandal-hit ex-president Jacob Zuma has made a surprise comeback by running in May’s elections against his former party,…
THE European Union (EU) says it will restrict visa provisions for Ethiopian nationals because of the lack of cooperation from…
BURKINA Faso has rejected “baseless accusations” that soldiers massacred 223 people in attacks in February. A Human Rights Watch report…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki has vowed to remove “rotten apples” and “thieves” from the governing African National Congress…
ELECTRICITY supplies have been restored to Sierra Leone following weeks of power cuts, after it paid off part of the…
A DAUGHTER of deposed Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum on Friday accused his predecessor of being the “mastermind” behind the military…
THE United States will withdraw some troops from Chad, the Pentagon has said, days after Washington agreed to move forces…
BURKINA Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting after they aired a rights report…
AT least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, the…
THREE more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targetting millions of children in a continent that accounts…