SENEGALESE opposition figure Ousmane Sonko was arrested Friday, two members of his party and a senior security official told AFP,…
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GENERAL Abdourahmane Tchiani, also known by the alias Omar Tchiani, has been named the leader of the junta that took…
NIGER’s President Mohamed Bazoum is in good health after being taken captive by his own presidential guard, the French foreign…
MAURITANIAN authorities have charged a high school student with blasphemy over a mock exam paper she submitted. The young woman…
TWENTY-TWO people died and 52 were injured Wednesday when a bus crashed in northern Senegal, the fire brigade told AFP.…
MORE than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece and thousands have been evacuated as Mediterranean wildfires threaten…
AIR strikes and artillery barrages from Sudan’s warring generals killed at least 16 people in a Khartoum neighbourhood on Tuesday,…
GHANA’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, joining a long list of African countries that have done so…
A SUICIDE bomber on Monday struck a military training camp in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, killing at least 20 soldiers,…
AT least 34 people have been killed and thousands evacuated after wildfires broke out across Algeria, the country’s interior ministry…
A DISTRAUGHT Congolese soldier shot dead at least 13 civilians, most of them children, in a village in the northeast…
IN a war-devastated district of Sudan’s capital, Abbas Mohammed Babiker says he and his family have only been able to…
AT least 20 Sudanese civilians have been killed by rocket fire on residential areas of one of Darfur’s main cities…
A MALAWIAN court has convicted a Chinese national on multiple charges including trafficking and procuring children to take part in…
KENYAN opposition leader Raila Odinga says “bad flu” has kept him from taking part in the three-day street protests that…
GUNMEN have attacked two villages in Niger Republic’s vast Tillaberi border region, killing a dozen people working in the fields,…
A BODY was found in central Johannesburg early Thursday after an unexplained blast ripped through a busy street at rush…
A MILLION more people could be facing hunger in Burkina Faso in the next few months as the lack of…
ETHIOPIA is allowing people to access Facebook, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube for the first time in more than five months.…
THE beheading of two people by suspected militants is causing alarm in northern Mozambique as such atrocities have become less…