NINETY-FIVE Libyan nationals have been arrested on suspicion of receiving training at an “illegal” military camp in South Africa, police…
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A UGANDAN activist, one of dozens detained this week for participating in banned demonstrations, was sexually assaulted in custody, his…
A HEATWAVE in Morocco has killed at least 21 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni…
INTERNATIONAL rights campaigners called Thursday for the Ugandan government to free dozens of protesters who have been arrested and charged…
POLICE in South Africa have arrested five suspects, including three Mexicans, after uncovering a multi-million dollar crystal meth lab on…
KENYA’s President William Ruto has appointed four members of the main opposition party as part of a new cabinet as…
USING shovels or their bare hands, local residents on Tuesday searched desperately for survivors after a landslide in a remote…
DOZENS of people who joined scattered anti-corruption rallies in the capital Kampala on Tuesday in defiance of an official ban…
OPPOSITION leader Bobi Wine said heavily armed security forces were besieging his party headquarters on Monday and had arrested several…
TANZANIA’s information minister Nape Nnauye has been removed from his post following an outcry over comments he made suggesting that…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has warned protesters that they will be “playing with fire” if they press ahead with plans…
SUDAN’s de facto leader has received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, cementing a rapprochement after an…
MOROCCAN opposition figure and former minister Mohamed Ziane has been sentenced to five years in prison while serving a three-year…
KENYA’s embattled president has announced a plan to form a new “broad-based government” following weeks of deadly anti-government protests sparked…
ZAMBIA’s President Hakinde Hichilema has taken the extraordinary step of firing the entire board of the country’s corruption-busting body, after…
KENYAN President William Ruto has announced a partial cabinet after weeks of antigovernment protests. In a televised address on Friday,…
A KENYAN court has suspended a police ban on protests in the capital, stating that citizens have a right to…
RWANDA’s President Paul Kagame has smashed his own record by winning Monday’s elections with more than 99% of the vote,…
FLOODING caused by heavy rains lashing Niger since June has killed 53 people and impacted 18,000, as the west African…
KENYAN President William Ruto named Wednesday his foreign minister as “acting cabinet secretary” for all ministries, nearly a week after…