THE authorities in Egypt have executed a man who had been convicted of killing a fellow university student last year…
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FOUR men have been arrested in north-eastern Ghana for their alleged involvement in a viral video in which a woman…
THE voice of the female doctor in war-hit Sudan is shaky. She is leaving a message with BBC Arabic’s mobile…
Eighty members of a Ugandan religious cult who had been convinced to travel to Ethiopia and starve themselves have been…
THREE leaders of Tunisia’s once-dominant Ennahdha party are on a hunger strike to protest their detention under a crackdown against…
AT least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people…
SIX civilians have been killed and 10 injured after al-Shabab militants attacked a beachside hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu,…
FIGHTING between government forces and a rival paramilitary force broke out again on Sunday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after…
ROMANIA has recalled its ambassador to Kenya and apologised after he compared Africans to monkeys. Dragos Tigau made the comments…
RESIDENTS say an uneasy calm has returned to Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, after the country’s warring generals agreed to a…
THE UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says it is suspending some food aid to Ethiopia while it addresses worries that…
SUSPECTED militants have killed at least 27 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local reports say…
NEARLY 300 orphans caught in the crossfire in Sudan’s capital have been rescued in a daring and dangerous evacuation by…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he has contracted Covid-19 after one of three tests conducted on him turned out…
AN 88-YEAR-OLD man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a…
SENEGAL has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among…
ONE of the surviving sons of the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has gone on hunger strike to protest against…
TEN people from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in an army attack on a university campus in…
MOZAMBIQUE’s justice minister says prison guards who help inmates get hold of drugs and other banned substances are “worse than…
PETROL prices have almost doubled in Benin after it was announced that fuel subsidies would be scrapped in next-door Nigeria.…