ARTIST Galal Yousif managed to flee Sudan when conflict erupted earlier this year with only a few belongings stuffed into…
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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…
SUDAN’s army chief has lambasted “negligent” commanders after a rival paramilitary group captured the strategic city of Wad Madani. The…
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…