ALL schools have been ordered to close in South Sudan, as it prepares for a heatwave in which temperatures could…
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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…
FAILED asylum seekers are to be offered up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda under a new voluntary scheme. The…
A TV anchor who was acquitted of murder has now been hired for a senior job in the Kenyan government,…
THE leaders of Libya’s two rival governments have agreed to form a single unified government, signalling progress in ending a…
CHADIAN junta-appointed Prime Minister Succès Masra has announced he’ll run for presidency, a week after the leader of the junta,…
TO the casual observer, it seemed like the long-cherished dream of a new single currency for East Africa had come…
RWANDA’s ruling party on Saturday picked President Paul Kagame as its candidate for the July election, teeing up a contest…
THE US has accused Zimbabwe of harassing, detaining and deporting several of its nationals who were in the country as…
CONCRETE barriers are being built along a stretch of the South Africa-Mozambique border to prevent people crossing over to steal…