SOLDIERS from Sudan’s army have recaptured the headquarters of the state broadcaster in Omdurman, the city just across the Nile…
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FAILED asylum seekers are to be offered up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda under a new voluntary scheme. The…
A TV anchor who was acquitted of murder has now been hired for a senior job in the Kenyan government,…
THE leaders of Libya’s two rival governments have agreed to form a single unified government, signalling progress in ending a…
CHADIAN junta-appointed Prime Minister Succès Masra has announced he’ll run for presidency, a week after the leader of the junta,…
TO the casual observer, it seemed like the long-cherished dream of a new single currency for East Africa had come…
RWANDA’s ruling party on Saturday picked President Paul Kagame as its candidate for the July election, teeing up a contest…
THE US has accused Zimbabwe of harassing, detaining and deporting several of its nationals who were in the country as…
CONCRETE barriers are being built along a stretch of the South Africa-Mozambique border to prevent people crossing over to steal…
THE trial of a prominent journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed in the capital Kinshasa, with the…
YOUNGSTERS in Burkina Faso are joining the state in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) as population displacement caused by…
FRANCE will keep troops in junta-run Chad as it retreats elsewhere in Africa following crises with other military regimes, an…
EGYPT signed a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase an initial $3 billion loan package to $8 billion,…
SENEGAL’s government has announced that the country’s presidential election will take place on 24 March. The announcement follows tension in…
A STUDENT pilot and trainer have been killed after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over Kenya’s capital, Nairobi,…
A FORMER senior government minister in South Africa has left the governing African National Congress (ANC), with a blistering attack…
THE United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with other senior officials, for corruption and…
JUDGES at the International Crime Court (ICC) have ruled that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against a fugitive…
SOME 170 people including women and children have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public…
HUNDREDS of protesters in the Senegalese capital Dakar have called for elections to be held before the end of President…