SUDAN’s army chief has lambasted “negligent” commanders after a rival paramilitary group captured the strategic city of Wad Madani. The…
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ANGOLA said on Thursday it would leave OPEC over a disagreement on production quotas following the oil cartel’s decision last…
FRANCE will close its embassy in Niger, where anti-French sentiment has grown since a July coup, because a staff exodus…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) said Wednesday it was withdrawing international staff from Ethiopia after the arrest and assault of…
GUINEA-BISSAU President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Wednesday dismissed the prime minister and immediately named a replacement, in the wake of…
MILITANTS linked to the Islamic State group have burned at least 10 civilians to death in an attack on a…
ON the eve of elections in the vast and impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo, voters of all stripes voiced hopes…
EGYPT’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a new six-year term with 89.6 percent of the vote, the election authority…
MORE than 2,200 platinum miners on Monday launched the fourth underground protest to hit South Africa’s crucial mining industry in…
MILITANT linked to al-Qaeda have freed a South African paramedic taken hostage in Libya more than six years ago, a…
SEVERAL people are feared dead and dozens of others have been injured in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, following an explosion at…
MORE than 60 migrants are believed to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the International Organization…
FORMER South African president Jacob Zuma, who was forced out of office over corruption allegations, said Saturday he would not…
FOUR Senegalese soldiers were killed when their vehicle ran over an anti-tank mine in the southern region of Casamance, where…
NIGER’s deposed president Mohamed Bazoum must be freed immediately from detention, where he has been held since a July 26…
AN attack in central Mali this week, blamed on jihadists, left dozens of soldiers and civilians dead, local sources said…
LIBERIA’s outgoing Finance Minister Samuel Tweh has dismissed as false US allegations that he was involved in “significant” corruption. The…
A SIERRA Leone court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Samura Kamara, opposition leader and runner-up in last June’s presidential…
THE High Court in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, has sentenced a 25-year-old serial killer to 105 years in prison. Musa Musasizi…
MANY Zimbabweans have reacted with astonishment after Mthuli Ncube was named “Best African Finance Minister of the Year” despite the…