POPULAR Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on hunger strike for two weeks in protest against his detention,…
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SOUTH African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who has spent six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,…
MORE than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.…
TWO powerful militias that back Libya’s UN-supported government have clashed in the capital, Tripoli, killing 55 people and injuring 146…
SUDAN’s army has been attacking an area of Omdurman city where a traditional healer has been treating injured paramilitary fighters.…
A SUSPECTED air strike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has killed at least 26 people, a hospital official said. The strike…
OPPOSITION lawmakers in Ghana have expressed concern over the Ecowas plans to potentially launch military action in Niger as part…
A MANHUNT has been launched in South Africa after a mass shooting in which six people died, police say. Four…
IT was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been spared from returning to prison, with officials saying this is to ease…
KNOWN for his tailored suits and designer jewellery, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa can work a crowd with all…
MALI has revoked Air France’s permit to fly between Paris and Bamako after the carrier suspended operations to and from…
ISRAEL has announced it’s evacuated in a special flight over 200 of its citizens and Ethiopian Jews from two cities…
WOMEN on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads,…
SERGE Brammertz, the chief prosecutor at the Arusha-based International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, has warned that the international justice…
A ROMANIAN national kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in 2015 in Burkina Faso, has been released after eight years in…
RESIDENTS of Omdurman, the twin city to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, have had to live through massive aerial bombardments and heavy…
A TEXAS woman was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird – which…
FIVE people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say. The…
RUSSIA’s Wagner mercenary group is “taking advantage” of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the…