A ZIMBABWEAN court on Friday sentenced an opposition politician to four years in prison for inciting public violence over a…
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ONE of Sudan’s duelling generals, who leads the paramilitary force fighting the country’s army, has told the BBC he will…
RIVAL factions of Sudan’s military have agreed to renew a three-day ceasefire, shortly before it was due to expire. The…
AN innocent man who was sentenced to death following the 2011 murder of a British tourist has had his conviction…
FIGHTING is continuing in parts of Sudan despite a 72-hour ceasefire largely holding. Speaking via phone from Omdurman, the city…
AT least 55 migrants have been killed when their Europe-bound dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the UN’s migration…
EVERYONE finds selling on the streets the easiest way to survive, but you have to be creative.” Noel Ngwenya, 44,…
A SECOND evacuation flight rescuing UK nationals from war-torn Sudan has landed in Cyprus. The passengers and a further 39…
ETHOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday said his government had opened talks with Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel…
IN the middle of a forest not far from Kenya’s coast, piles of fresh earth topped with crucifixes await the…
THE United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to a three-day ceasefire starting…
BURUNDI’s justice ministry has confirmed that the country’s former prime minister, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, is in police custody following reports…
KENYAN police said Sunday they had found the bodies of another 26 suspected cult members in the east of the…
MORE than 150 people from various nations reached the safety of Saudi Arabia Saturday in the first announced evacuation of…
TWENTY-ONE bodies have been exhumed in Kenya in a probe into a cult whose followers are believed to have starved…
TEN members of the same family have been shot dead in an attack on their home in South Africa, police…
STREET battles are being fought by Sudan’s rival forces in the capital, Khartoum, in an escalation of violence despite calls…
THE United States is deploying forces to eastern Africa in case an evacuation of American embassy staff in Sudan becomes…
THE United Nations said Thursday up to 20,000 people had fled escalating violence in Sudan to seek safety in Chad,…
THOUSANDS of civilians have fled Sudan’s capital and foreign nations are trying to evacuate their citizens, amid a fifth day…