SIERRA Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew after armed men broke into prisons, setting inmates free. Detainees from…
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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…
A ZIMBABWEAN mother saved her son from the grips of a baboon’s mouth after the animal tried to snatch him…
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…