DJIBOUTI’s president Ismail Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, will run for a sixth term in next year’s election, political…
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PROMINENT members of Tunisia’s political opposition have announced they will be joining a collective hunger strike in solidarity with jailed…
A TANZANIAN court has charged at least 240 people with treason following last week’s deadly election protests. President Samia Suluhu…
EXPLOSION have been heard near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said…
THE Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has agreed to a proposal by the United States for a ceasefire in…
THE deputy leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, is facing terrorism charges, two weeks after his arrest in the…
WHEN Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the besieged city of el-Fasher on October 26, Mabrooka’s husband and brother…
LAST week’s Tanzania elections failed to comply with democratic standards, says the African Union (AU), adding to mounting international pressure…
AT least 40 people in Sudan have been killed in a drone strike that targeted a funeral that was taking…
TANZANIAN police have lifted a night-time curfew imposed since last Wednesday in the main city Dar es Salaam following deadly…
JUNTA leader Mamady Doumbouya officially entered Guinea’s presidential race Monday, submitting his candidacy for the December 28 elections that are…
THE Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. It is “highly likely” the stone head,…
THE Kenyan government has confirmed that 21 people have died following a landslide in the western part of the country…
SOUTH African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid…
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest…
CAIRO is set to open the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt hopes will celebrate the nation’s heritage and also…
HUNDREDS of people have been killed in Tanzania during three days of protests following Wednesday’s general election, the country’s main…
MORE than 60,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, which was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…
PROTESTS have escalated in major cities across Tanzania as opposition supporters denounce Wednesday’s presidential and parliamentary elections as a sham.…
CAMEROON’s Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji says opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary will face legal action over allegations he incited…