THE Bank of Ghana has warned the public against using local banknotes as bouquets and hampers when gifting people. Banknotes…
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris is expected to arrive in Tanzania shortly for a three-day official visit – the second stop…
POLICE in Senegal fired tear gas and stun grenades at people demonstrating in the capital, Dakar, ahead of the libel…
BOTSWANA government has dismissed claims that it plans to arrest and kill exiled former president Ian Khama if he returned…
CHADIAN President President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Monday pardoned 259 people out of the 262 jailed in December during…
CROWDS have reportedly set fire to parts of a farm owned by the family of former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta,…
A MIGRANT originally from Sierra Leone has told the BBC’s Newsday programme that black people have no future in Tunisia…
A NOTORIOUS militia in eastern DR Congo on Sunday executed 17 people it took hostage the previous day on live…
KENYAN opposition has vowed to continue with protests scheduled for Monday despite police warning they will intensify crackdowns on what…
MILITARY and civilian political leaders in Sudan have begun talks in Khartoum on bringing the government-backed militia, the RSF, under…
DECADES of silence and fear followed the 1977 massacre of perhaps as many as 90,000 people in Angola, but as…
THE Chadian government has nationalised assets belonging to a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil. It’s the latest development in a dispute…
AT least 34 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa – including children and babies – are missing off the Tunisian coast after…
PAUL Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager portrayed as a hero in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, is to be released…
FOUR Kenyan MPs have been charged with unlawful assembly after taking part in anti-government protests on Monday, the Reuters news…
SOUTH African opposition minority party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcome to visit…
ZIMBABWE has awarded civil servants a 100% salary increment as part of efforts to improve their welfare, the government-owned daily…
KENYA and Uganda have increased surveillance on their border with Tanzania after the Marburg virus killed five people in the…
A KENYAN governor has ordered newly appointed county executives to regularly give 10% of their income to the church, a…
THOUSANDS of Namibians on Tuesday flocked to the VIP tent at the independence celebrations after President Hage Geingob ordered all…