FIVE civilians have been killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region after a drone strike hit an ambulance, witnesses told the BBC.…
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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…
AS many as half a million people have descended on Ethiopia’s sacred city of Aksum, according to its mayor, for…
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…