VOTERS in the Comoros choose a new president on Sunday with incumbent Azali Assoumani, who has already extended his time…
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THE Somali armed group al-Shabab has seized a United Nations helicopter, along with about eight people, both passengers and crew,…
LIBERIA’s former chief justice and justice minister Gloria Maya Musu-Scott has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal…
THE army chiefs of landlocked Ethiopia and the self-declared Republic of Somaliland have been discussing military co-operation as concern grows…
MIGRATION activists are sounding the alarm this week about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing…
TWENTY-SEVEN soldiers in Sierra Leone on Monday appeared before a court-martial which charged them with mutiny over their alleged role…
THE death toll from a petrol tanker explosion in central Liberia has risen to 74, the West African nation’s chief…
FOUR people have been killed and 40 hospitalised after consuming tainted alcohol in southern Tunisia, an official said. An inquiry…
A FORMER interior minister of The Gambia goes on trial in Switzerland on Monday accused of crimes against humanity. Ousman…
PARALYMPIAN Oscar Pistorius has been freed on parole from a South African jail, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend…
MOSES Lugalia has joined Kenya’s budding electric vehicle revolution – by exchanging the noisy roar of his petrol motorbike for…
THREE ministers and four governors have been disqualified from last month’s election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, because of…
SENEGAL’s Supreme Court has dismissed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s appeal against a libel conviction, potentially ruling him out of next…
CHILDREN across Zambia will return to school three weeks late from their festive holidays due to a cholera outbreak. Both…
THE former Miss Namibia has doubled down on her pledge to run to be president of the southern African country,…
AN influential Ugandan pastor and outspoken supporter of President Yoweri Museveni was hospitalised after a shooting attack which killed his…
KENYAN President William Ruto has come under a barrage of criticism following his threat to disobey court orders from “corrupt…
SIERRA Leone on Tuesday charged 12 people with treason and other offences for their roles in what authorities have called…
POLICE in Morocco have seized 1.488 tonnes (3,280lb) of cocaine in a joint operation with Spanish security forces. The cocaine…
CHAD’s transitional leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has appointed long-time opposition figure Succès Masra as the country’s new prime…