ZIMBABWEANS are going to the polls in presidential and parliamentary elections after a campaign dominated by the country’s soaring inflation.…
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A QURAN – neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who had been banished to the…
EMMERSON Mnangagwa became Zimbabwe’s second president after outmanoeuvring long-time ruler Robert Mugabe with a military-backed coup in 2017 — and…
THE Egyptian authorities arrested then released a journalist who published articles accusing officials of involvement in smuggling cash, weapons and…
GHANAIAN TV presenter and journalist Paa Kwesi Asare has won the 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 36-year-old is…
A FIRE at a camp for hundreds of displaced families in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at…
THE price of an AK-47 assault rifle, one of the most-recognisable weapons of war, has fallen over the last few…
GAMBIA’s President Adama Barrow has suspended all foreign travel by officials, including himself, to reduce public spending, a government spokesman…
UNICEF on Friday sounded the alarm on child cholera in DR Congo’s troubled North-Kivu province, estimating more than 8,000 under-fives…
VIOLENCE erupted this week in a string of villages in remote southwest Niger leaving at least 28 civilians dead, sources…
POPULAR Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on hunger strike for two weeks in protest against his detention,…
SOUTH African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who has spent six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,…
MORE than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.…
TWO powerful militias that back Libya’s UN-supported government have clashed in the capital, Tripoli, killing 55 people and injuring 146…
SUDAN’s army has been attacking an area of Omdurman city where a traditional healer has been treating injured paramilitary fighters.…
A SUSPECTED air strike in Ethiopia’s Amhara region has killed at least 26 people, a hospital official said. The strike…
OPPOSITION lawmakers in Ghana have expressed concern over the Ecowas plans to potentially launch military action in Niger as part…
A MANHUNT has been launched in South Africa after a mass shooting in which six people died, police say. Four…
IT was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave…
SOUTH Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been spared from returning to prison, with officials saying this is to ease…