FORMER football star George Weah is running for a second six-year term as Liberia’s president, but he appears to have…
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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…
KENYA’s communications regulator has said that the country experienced a record 860 million cyber-attacks in the last 12 months. The…
ETHIOPIA’s embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum came under attack with heavy weapons on Tuesday morning, the Ethiopian ambassador there…
TWENTY-NINE soldiers were killed in western Niger in an attack by suspected terrorists, the defence ministry said on Monday night,…
SECURITY forces in Madagascar fired tear gas on opposition candidates leading a protest in the capital Antananarivo on Monday, amid…
TUAREG-dominated separatist groups said on Saturday that they had inflicted heavy losses on the Malian military in an attack in…
FIVE people died and six others were wounded Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near…
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame has appointed a senior military official as a minister of state for regional cooperation despite the…
AN employee of Cairo University has been shot to death on campus by a former co-worker, the interior ministry said,…
BURKINA Faso’s military government says the country’s security and intelligence services foiled a coup attempt on Tuesday. It’s almost a…
GABON’s military-installed prime minister on Wednesday outlined plans for a “national dialogue” to be organised next year which would pave…
UGANDAN police say they have arrested a 17-year-old student on charges of trafficking 170 young people. The police said that…
KENYA says it’s confident the deployment of hundreds of its police to Haiti by January will end gang warfare there.…
LIBYA’s prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of eight officials as part of his inquiry into the recent flood disaster…
FIGHTING has continued to be reported in Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region between government troops and local militias with the historic…