THE son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison…
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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,…
MARKUS Jooste, the former head of the Steinhoff retail group that was at the centre of a huge corporate fraud…
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…