SERGE Brammertz, the chief prosecutor at the Arusha-based International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, has warned that the international justice…
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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…
SIXTEEN migrants have died in shipwrecks off the coasts of Tunisia and Western Sahara, officials said Monday, as North Africa…
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…