SENEGAL’s political crisis deepened as a second person died on Saturday in increasingly violent protests against President Macky Sall’s decision…
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EMILE Bolingo is not sure how long he and other residents of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic…
MADAGASCAR’s justice minister defended a new bill Friday to castrate child rapists, with the measure deemed “cruel, inhuman and degrading”…
SENEGALESE security forces on Friday used tear gas to disperse people attempting to gather in the capital after being urged…
WEST African foreign ministers held emergency talks on Thursday on the political crisis in Senegal and the withdrawal by three…
SOUTH Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday give his most important state of the nation address in an election…
MALI reaffirmed its exit “without delay” from West African bloc ECOWAS, saying it was not bound by the organisation’s one-year…
ZIMBABWE’s’s cabinet has supported proposed legislation to end the death penalty, marking a pivotal point in abolishing capital punishment in…
A KENYAN court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over…
ETHIOPIA’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his country “does not wish any harm” on neighbouring Somalia. His comments…
SOUTH African singer Tyla’s victory at the Grammys, beating four Nigerian nominees, has fuelled the two nations’ rivalry as they…
SENEGAL’s reputation as a bastion of democracy in an unstable region is on the line as protesters clash with police…
NANGOLO Mbumba has taken his oath of office as Namibia’s new president hours after the death of Hage Geingob. Geingob…
PROTESTERS and police clashed in the Senegalese capital Dakar and at least one senior opposition figure was arrested Sunday, a…
NAMIBIAN President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82, his office has said, less than three weeks after…
SENEGALESE President Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours…
THE African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab jihadists are waging an insurgency, said Friday the second phase of…
THE World Food Programme (WFP) says it is receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan, where a war…
A HUGE gas blast in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has killed at least two people and injured at least 222.…
FRENCH nationals will no longer be allowed to fly into Niger, airline sources said Thursday. “According to the Nigerien authorities,…