A ZIMBABWEAN mother saved her son from the grips of a baboon’s mouth after the animal tried to snatch him…
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THIRTY-SEVEN youths were killed in a stampede overnight during an army recruitment drive in a stadium in Brazzaville, the capital…
DOZENS of supporters of Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina queued to collect their party cards on Tuesday, believing it entitled them…
POLITICAL veteran Joseph Boakai was on Monday declared winner of Liberia’s presidential election, beating incumbent George Weah, the National Electoral…
THE South African government has called on the International Crime Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister…
THE Malian army said at the weekend it discovered a mass grave in Kidal, a northeastern town recently recaptured from…
AT least 80,000 households across Kenya have been affected by heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides over the last week, the…
ZIMBABWE has declared a state of emergency in the capital Harare over a cholera outbreak. The outbreak has so far…
KENYA’s President William Ruto has been named by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential leaders shaping…
LIBERIAN President George Weah has called his challenger in the presidential race, Joseph Boakai, to congratulate him on his victory.…
TWO rebel groups from Sudan’s Darfur region say they will fight alongside the army in the country’s civil war. This…
US-BASED Ethiopian Julie Mehretu has once again broken the record for the highest sale price of any work by an…
MALAWI’s President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended with immediate effect all international travel for himself and his government in a bid…
MADAGASCAR is holding presidential elections despite an opposition boycott following weeks of protests. A curfew was declared overnight to prevent…
INITIAL results from the presidential run-off election in Liberia point to an extremely tight race. With almost a quarter of…
MALI’s army has seized Kidal, a key town in the country’s north that the ethnic Tuareg rebels have held for…
THE wife of an abducted Zimbabwe opposition activist has identified her husband’s dead body. Tapfumaneyi Masaya, from the Citizens Coalition…
GABON’s military leaders say they plan to hold a general election in August 2025. This follows pressure from the international…
AT least 11 civilians have been killed in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo, the army said on Monday, in an attack…
THE European Union has called for an investigation into the reported killing of around 100 people in Burkina Faso earlier…