ZAMBIA’s government has withdrawn retirement benefits and privileges from former President Edgar Lungu following his decision to return to active…
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THE German president has expressed “shame” for the colonial atrocities his country inflicted on Tanzania. German forces killed almost 300,000…
A GAMBIAN court has sentenced a soldier to 12 years in prison for plotting a coup in the West African…
KING Charles III and Queen Camilla began a state visit to Kenya on Tuesday, facing widespread calls for an apology…
FIVE prisoners branded as dangerous Islamists have escaped from a jail in Tunisia. The country’s interior ministry released their photos…
A TIKTOK star accused of falsely claiming to be a doctor has been arrested after trying to enter a hospital…
A NOW-SACKED Ghanaian government minister has admitted that he accepted a cash gift of $40,000 (£33,000) “in order not to…
KENYA is to end visa requirements to all African visitors by the end of the year, President William Ruto has…
TO THE full-throated cheers of his supporters, Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has announced that he is making a political…
THE editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful OBE, has been named the UK’s most influential black person by the Powerlist…
AT least 32 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving multiple vehicles in Egypt, the…
KING Charles III embarks Tuesday on a four-day trip to Kenya, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation,…
MANY parts of Ghana were plunged into darkness due to a lack of gas to power machinery used to generate…
THE paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seized control of Sudan’s second largest city, Nyala, from the army after months…
PRIME Minister Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia will not invade any neighbouring nation after his recent comments on a need for…
DETAINED Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, who eight days ago resumed a hunger strike, is “very weak” and in an…
ETHIOPIAN-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta has received the National Medal of Science, the highest state honour attainable by scientists in the…
LIBERIAN President George Weah faces a November 14 run-off vote after edging out his main rival by less than half…
THE United States on Monday ended assistance to Gabon over its August 30 coup but said it was ready to…
THE Kenyan shilling sank to a new all-time low of 150 to the dollar on Monday, adding to the woes…