KENYAN opposition leader Raila Odinga says “bad flu” has kept him from taking part in the three-day street protests that…
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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…
FORMER Twitter employees who were based in Ghana say the company has gone silent on all negotiations with their lawyers…
A CONTROVERSIAL Kenyan televangelist, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, has been acquitted of child-trafficking charges due to insufficient evidence.…
HUNDREDS of homes have been destroyed by a fire in a poor neighbourhood of the South African port city of…
KARIM Khan, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), has told the BBC that “there is no hope of…
IN a strong warning to the opposition, Kenya’s President William Ruto has said “protests will no longer take place in…
ZIMBABWE’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a bill into law that imposes penalties on Zimbabweans who are found to have…
MAALIM is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to…
IN a clear sign of their seriousness to end the escalating conflict in Sudan, four East African states, led by…
FIVE bodies were found under rubble on Tuesday after two buildings collapsed a day earlier in the Guinean capital Conakry,…
SUDANESE public school teacher Imad Mohammed had worked for 32 years when war broke out almost three months ago, tearing…
A LIBYAN court has jailed 37 people convicted of human trafficking – following the deaths of 11 migrants who drowned…
GABON’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba has announced that he will seek a third term in office in presidential elections planned…
JOHANNESBURG has seen its first snowfall since 2012, as cold weather is sweeping across much of the country. Residents are…
SPANISH rescuers are searching waters off the Canary Islands for a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants who went…