AL-QAEDA’s West African branch has announced the death of a Malian hostage in its custody, naming him as Idriss Sanogo,…
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BURKINA Faso and Russia are on Friday due to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of a…
WHILE Liberians await the results of Tuesday’s general election, a top EU observer has accused politicians who are already in…
THE FBI and the Office of Ghana’s Special Prosecutor (OSP) are looking into the assets and financial transactions of embattled…
UGANDAN lawmakers have rejected a government proposal to allow 15-year-old girls to access birth control pills to reduce high levels…
NIGER’s post-coup military rulers have demanded in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday that the United Nations coordinator in…
BURUNDI’s recently dismissed central bank governor has been arrested on allegations of corruption. Dieudonné Murengerantwari has been accused by the…
FIFTEEN opposition MPs in Zimbabwe have filed a court appeal saying they were tricked into losing their parliamentary seats. The…
LIBERIANS are set to vote in a fiercely contested presidential election, with former football star George Weah, 57, making a…
A KENYAN high court has blocked the government’s plans to deploy police officers to Haiti or any other country pending…
TWO Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide have been shot dead in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, the Israeli foreign…
MANY people are feared missing in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé, after landslides destroyed several homes in a locality called Mbankolo. It…
NIGER’s military rulers have announced major budget cuts for this year, citing the international sanctions imposed since they seized power…
THE family of legendary Congolese guitarist Lokassa ya Mbongo say they are going through “unbearable pain” and “humiliation” as they…
FORMER football star George Weah is running for a second six-year term as Liberia’s president, but he appears to have…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has reached a preliminary agreement with the Ghanaian authorities on the economic policies…
FRANCE said Thursday that it would start withdrawing its troops from Niger this week after a falling-out with the post-coup…
GHANA – once touted as a trailblazing African economic success story – is facing an unprecedented financial crisis. This week,…
AROUND 400 people in Egypt have been arrested over “riot incidents” after President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced that he would…
A KENYAN hospital worker caught by the BBC trying to sell a baby has been sentenced to 25 years in…