ETHIOPIA has taken the first legal steps on a path that could one day enable the landlocked country to gain…
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DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results…
THE recent lifting of Niger’s ban on people smuggling has been welcomed by many in Agadez, a city on the…
UN peacekeepers are finishing their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade. Minusma – the…
SOUTH Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging that Israel is engaging in “genocidal…
FULL provisional results of elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be announced Sunday, the electoral commission said on…
THE UN and the World Food Programme on Friday warned that a lack of funding could lead to the imminent…
RUSSIA on Thursday reopened its embassy in Burkina Faso after a gap of nearly 32 years after the West African…
MORE than 40 people were feared dead when a tanker truck exploded after crashing in central Liberia, the country’s chief…
BURKINA Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being taken away from his house by people…
ZAMBIA’s Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo resigned Tuesday, the president’s office announced, hours after he was embroiled in a social media…
THE DR Congo government said Tuesday that it will outlaw an opposition-led demonstration planned for Wednesday to protest alleged “irregularities”…
ARTIST Galal Yousif managed to flee Sudan when conflict erupted earlier this year with only a few belongings stuffed into…
ZAMBIAN President Hakainde Hichilema has pardoned 588 inmates in various correctional facilities across the country. The freed prisoners include 11…
AT least four people have died with another 20 feared missing after a river swept away a building in South…
THE Malian ambassador to Algiers was summoned to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday to discuss “the latest…
THE Senegalese navy has seized 690 kg of cocaine being transported to Europe in an ultra-fast go-fast boat and arrested…
A WEST African delegation led by the leaders of Senegal and Ghana were in Sierra Leone on Saturday to lay…
AN attack by rebels in western Burundi has killed 20 people, all but one of them civilians, the government said…
A BELGIAN court on Friday sentenced a Rwandan former militia leader to life in jail for dozens of murders and…