THE trial of a prominent journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed in the capital Kinshasa, with the…
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YOUNGSTERS in Burkina Faso are joining the state in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) as population displacement caused by…
FRANCE will keep troops in junta-run Chad as it retreats elsewhere in Africa following crises with other military regimes, an…
EGYPT signed a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase an initial $3 billion loan package to $8 billion,…
SENEGAL’s government has announced that the country’s presidential election will take place on 24 March. The announcement follows tension in…
A STUDENT pilot and trainer have been killed after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over Kenya’s capital, Nairobi,…
A FORMER senior government minister in South Africa has left the governing African National Congress (ANC), with a blistering attack…
THE United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with other senior officials, for corruption and…
JUDGES at the International Crime Court (ICC) have ruled that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against a fugitive…
SOME 170 people including women and children have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public…
HUNDREDS of protesters in the Senegalese capital Dakar have called for elections to be held before the end of President…
A MILITARY court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death. The men will be executed…
MBOLE-POP star Mr Leo’s next musical mission is to break through to English-speaking audiences – and he hopes his new…
THE state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m…
THE headquarters of the main opposition party in Chad, is being demolished, two days after its leader Yaya Dillo was…
FORMER Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died on Thursday aged 98,…
ZAMBIA’s President Hakainde Hichilema has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought affecting the country. Addressing the nation…
RESCUERS pulled more than 20 bodies from the sea off northern Senegal on Wednesday after a boat loaded with migrants…
SEVERAL Malian soldiers died on Wednesday in a large-scale attack by suspected insurgents on a military outpost in the remote…
THE authorities in Chad have said the country’s delayed presidential elections will take place in May. The vote is supposed…