SIXTEEN migrants have died in shipwrecks off the coasts of Tunisia and Western Sahara, officials said Monday, as North Africa…
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SENEGAL’s jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on hunger strike in prison to protest against his criminal charges,…
NIGER’s coup leaders have closed the country’s airspace until further notice, citing the threat of military intervention from their neighbours.…
TWENTY-FOUR people have died in Morocco after the minibus they were travelling in plunged down a ravine in a mountainous…
AFTER 18 years of operating in Kampala, the UN’s human rights mission will close on Saturday because the Ugandan government…
THE coup in Niger will undermine the fight against resurgent terror groups in Africa’s Sahel region, France’s defence minister said…
ETHIOPIA’s federal government on Friday declared a “state of emergency” as violent clashes escalate between the national army and local…
SEVERAL Mali soldiers were killed in an attack which the army blamed Friday on terrorists in the northeastern Menaka region.…
SENEGAL has said it would be prepared to send troops into Niger if regional bloc Ecowas decided to do so.…
SCIENTISTS have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to…
THE United States has ordered the partial evacuation of its embassy in Niger following last week’s coup. Hundreds of foreign…
A GROUP of medical students from Sudan has been welcomed to Rwanda to continue their studies after a civil war…
THE first French flight evacuating Europeans from Niger has arrived in Paris with 262 people on board. France began evacuating…
REPORTS from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, say bursts of gunfire have been heard in the early hours of…
NIGER’s ousted president has been seen for the first time since the military detained him in a coup last week.…
CONGOLESE-BORN French rapper Maitre Gims has cancelled a concert in Tunisia that was scheduled for 11 August. In an Instagram…
FIREBAND Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko said Sunday he had started a hunger strike from custody after being arrested this…
WHILE Kolthom was being gang-raped by four paramilitary fighters in Sudan’s war-hit Darfur region, she was also being racially abused.…
SUDAN’s paramilitary force has posted a video on Twitter of its leader addressing fighters – his first video appearance since…
THE EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country’s army took power in a coup. It comes…