AFTER outfoxing Egypt on the diplomatic stage for more than a decade, Ethiopia is set to officially inaugurate one of…
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ZAMBIA’s former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted…
SUDAN’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of…
COMMUNAL clashes in northern Ghana that started late last month have killed at least 31 people and displaced nearly 50,000,…
AT least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
BURKINA Faso’s transitional parliament has unanimously passed a bill criminalising homosexual acts, reversing more than six decades of legal tolerance…
SOUTH African authorities say “extreme poverty and a severe lack of affordable housing” were major factors in a deadly Johannesburg…
A MASSIVE landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has killed more than 1,000 people, a UN official has told the…
GHANA’s President John Mahama has fired the country’s Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo following a recommendation by an inquiry. She had…
THIS weekend marks the start of the campaign for the constitutional referendum in Guinea. The High Authority of Communication (HAC),…
IN the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it’s back-to-school season. But in Goma, a city of over two million people,…
THREE people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian…
A HEAD-ON collision in Namibia involving vehicles belonging to the security services has killed 16 people. The accident took place…
AN extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people…
MILLIONS of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has…
AT least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania,…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that cholera deaths are climbing worldwide even as the number of recorded cases…
RWANDA has announced it received seven people deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on…
SEVERAL investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant’s…
RUSSIA has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger – a vast, arid state on…