THE government in Senegal has deployed soldiers throughout the capital, Dakar, as residents brace themselves for more unrest. On Thursday…
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RESIDENTS of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, have reported more fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).…
SOCIAL media and messaging platforms have been blocked in Senegal after unrest erupted over the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane…
TANZANIA says its outbreak of the Marburg virus is over. Presence of the haemorrhagic fever was first confirmed in March,…
ROCKETS hit a market in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killing 18 people and leaving more than 100 wounded, doctors and residents…
RIGHTS group Amnesty International is calling on Angola to release an activist, saying he has been detained “arbitrarily” for more…
ONE of Africa’s most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted…
SUDANESE officials say the army has suspended ceasefire talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accusing the group of…
KENYAN-BORN Bernice Kariuki has resigned as Arsenal’s private chef after two years at the English Premier League club. She announced…
THE Zimbabwean government summoned the acting US ambassador to the country on Tuesday over election-related social media posts, which it…
THE United States and Saudi Arabia have welcomed the extension of a ceasefire deal between Sudan’s warring military factions for…
A LIBYAN court is reported to have issued death sentences to 35 people accused of being members of the militant…
ENTIRE villages in Sudan’s West Darfur region have been burned to the ground by marauding militias, with aid agencies now…
UGANDA’s President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed that a Ugandan army base in Somalia was stormed by hundreds of al-Shabab militants…
FIFTEEN people in Cameroon taking the body of a loved one for burial died Friday when their minibus was involved…
BOTH sides in Sudan’s conflict could be carrying out war crimes on medical facilities and staff, according to evidence seen…
AN 85-Year-Old British citizen in Sudan was shot and injured by snipers and his wife then died of starvation despite…
THE militant al-Shabab group on Friday morning carried out an attack on a Ugandan troops’ base of the African Union…
SUDAN’s warring sides accused each other on Thursday of being behind breaches of the latest ceasefire that was negotiated by…
ONE of four remaining fugitives from the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been captured, UN prosecutors say. Fulgence Kayishema was arrested…