AWARD-WINNING South African Afro-pop singer Bulelwa Mkutukana, popularly known as Zahara, has died, the country’s culture minister has said. She…
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AT least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe’s biggest national park as water holes have dried up, an international animal…
THE UN mission in Mali officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country on Monday, its spokesperson said, in a…
POLLING stations opened Sunday for Egyptians to vote in a presidential election overshadowed by war in neighbouring Gaza and with…
TWO people have been killed and seven others injured in a “deliberate attack” on an aid convoy in Sudan’s capital…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s leader has taken his rhetorical attacks on his Rwandan counterpart to another level by comparing…
TURKEY has issued an international arrest warrant for the son of Somalia’s president, after he allegedly ran over a motorcycle…
BURUNDI’s Supreme Court sentenced ousted prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni to life in prison on Friday on charges including attempting to…
FORMER Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been questioned at police headquarters in the capital, Freetown, over a failed…
A HUGE blast at an explosives depot in Seychelles on Thursday injured dozens of people and brought down buildings, prompting…
SOME Tanzanians have expressed concern over the whereabouts of Vice-President Philip Mpango, who has not been seen in public for…
THE World Bank will allocate $5 billion to deliver “reliable, affordable, renewable electricity” to 100 million Africans by the end…
FIVE civilians have been killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region after a drone strike hit an ambulance, witnesses told the BBC.…
SOME Namibians have been outraged after learning that President Hage Geingob’s four children joined the government’s delegation to the COP28…
WITH murals of his smiling face still covering many buildings, South Africans on Tuesday marked 10 years since the death…
NIGER Republic’s military leaders said Monday that they were ending two European Union security and defence missions in the country,…
THE president of Guinea-Bissau on Monday dissolved parliament ahead of fresh elections saying an “attempted coup” had plunged the West…
SEVERE flooding and landslides have killed at least 47 people and wounded 80 others in northern Tanzania, local officials say.…
SIERRA Leonean President Julius Maada Bio said on Saturday that his government’s response to an attempted coup last week would…
GUINEA-BISSAU’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Saturday said this week’s deadly violence involving members of the National Guard was an…