AT LEAST 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern…
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ALGERIA’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday officially opened The Great Mosque of Algiers, the largest mosque in Africa. It is…
A COURT in Uganda has sentenced more than 100 women to one month of community service each after they confessed…
GUINEA’s military junta has protested to Russia’s ambassador after his embassy reportedly warned of possible unrest in the capital, Conakry.…
THE death toll from Zambia’s cholera outbreak has risen to almost 700, says the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).…
SENEGAL’s President Macky Sall has said he will leave office when his term comes to an end on 2 April,…
EIGHT women accused of witchcraft in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau have died of poisoning in the remote north,…
SENEGAL’s outgoing President Macky Sall on Thursday said his mandate would end as planned on April 2, but left open…
THE UN Security Council has sanctioned six senior members of armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where…
FIFTEEN candidates in Senegal’s delayed presidential election have accused President Macky Sall of “ill will” and said they will take…
SOUTH Africa will go to the polls on May 29 to choose a parliament, which will in turn pick a…
GUINEA’s military junta, which seized power in a coup in September 2021, has dissolved the government. The announcement was made…
THE jailed head of Tunisia’s Islamic opposition Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, has joined a hunger strike by other political detainees…
SECURITY forces in Somalia’s north-eastern Puntland region on Sunday arrested Jamal Osman, a reporter for British broadcaster Channel 4, on…
X, FORMERLY known as Twitter, has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters more than a…
MARIEME and Ndeye were not expected to survive for more than a few days when they were born. Now aged…
THOUSANDS of demonstrators have gathered in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, demanding swift presidential elections. It comes after the country’s top court…
THE chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) has called on leaders to tackle conflicts in the continent, and condemned…
SEYCHELLES’ main opposition leader Patrick Herminie is no longer facing witchcraft charges after prosecutors dropped the case against him. He…
KENYAN police have re-arrested a fugitive murder suspect who had escaped from police custody, local media report. Kelvin Kangethe, 41,…