AS many as half a million people have descended on Ethiopia’s sacred city of Aksum, according to its mayor, for…
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MORE than 30 people were feared trapped Friday in a mine collapse in a Zambian region known for illegal open-cast…
A MAN described as the leader of a group of soldiers who tried to free a detained minister and a…
A 70-YEAR-OLD Ugandan woman, Safina Namukwaya, has delivered a set of twins – a boy and a girl, after becoming…
A COURT in Germany has sentenced a Gambian man to life in prison for his role in a paramilitary unit…
THE death toll from floods that have devastated many parts of Kenya has almost doubled to 120, a government official…
A SOUTH African court has sentenced a former security guard to 12 years in prison for instigating deadly riots in…
AT LEAST 40 civilians were killed in a militant attack in the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo at the…
SENEGAL’s military has seized more than three tonnes of cocaine from a ship moored off the coast, in one of…
SOUTH Africa has recorded a fall in the number of people living with HIV, according to a new survey released…
THIRTEEN soldiers were among the 19 killed during Sunday’s violence in Sierra Leone, which saw gunmen attacking a military barracks…
SOMALIA has joined the East African Community (EAC) in a move intended to boost economic growth in the country following…
SIERRA Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew after armed men broke into prisons, setting inmates free. Detainees from…
CHAD’s military-led government has issued an amnesty to security forces responsible for killing at least 50 opposition protestors. In 2022…
MADAGASCAR President Andry Rajoelina has won re-election in the first round of a ballot boycotted by nearly all opposition candidates…
FORMER Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is to be freed from jail on parole, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend…
AN elephant in Kenya has given birth to a set of twins, a conservation group said on Friday, a rare…
NIGER’s military ruler General Abdourahamane Tiani on Thursday arrived in Mali to meet his counterpart Colonel Assimi Goita in his…
KENYA’s President William Ruto said Thursday that his government was ready to privatise 35 state companies “trapped in government bureaucracy”…
CAMEROON has received more than 330,000 doses of a new malaria vaccine – the first to be approved by the…