A COURT in Egypt has handed down jail sentences, ranging from life to five years’ hard labour, to 30 people…
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THOUSANDS of Tunisians have gathered in central Tunis in defiance of an official ban on their protest against President Kais…
LIBREVILLE, Luanda, Brazzaville, Kinshasa – France’s President Emmanuel Macron is on a whirlwind tour of African capitals as he tries…
TWO workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross were kidnapped Saturday in Mali, the organisation’s Mali branch said…
SOCIAL media sensation Khaby Lame, who was born in Senegal and raised in Italy, has joined the judges’ panel of…
A MAN who sold potato chips cooked in dirty oil from a power transformer has been sentenced by a court…
THE trial of Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who’s accused of aggravated rape and assault, has begun in France’s capital, Paris.…
AT least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected terrorists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on…
THE deputy head of Sudan’s ruling council, Mohamed Daglo, has called the 2021 military coup a “mistake”. In a televised…
THE African Union has reiterated its zero-tolerance approach to undemocratic changes of power on the continent. On the final day…
THE most powerful trade union in Tunisia is staging rallies in a number of cities in protest against President Kais…
THE body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried Thursday alongside 12 comrades at the spot…
POLICE in Kenya have questioned a member of parliament over claims of funding bandits in the country’s northern Rift Valley…
THE UN refugee agency says thousands of people are continuing to flee fighting and insecurity in the disputed Somaliland town…
ISRAELI hackers allegedly hacked into the private conversation of two aides to Kenya’s President William Ruto during last year’s election,…
A PASTOR in Mozambique has died after trying to fast for 40 days, emulating what Christ is said to have…
A FEMALE Kenyan senator who was asked to leave parliament because of an apparent blood stain on her trousers has…
AT least 73 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, according to the…
A CRASH between an armoured truck and a bus has killed 20 people and injured another 60 in South Africa’s…
EIGHT people were killed after a ferry and a motorised canoe collided on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of…