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Benin President Patrice Talon on Friday said he would not stand for an unconstitutional third term in office but would be watching the choice of his successor closely. The former businessman has been in charge of the…

A United Nations judge has been found guilty of turning a young woman into her slave in the United Kingdom. 49-year-old Lydia Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, was convicted of conspiring to facilitate…

Lagos state has cemented its position as one of Africa’s economic powerhouses, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reaching an impressive $259 billion based on purchasing power parity (PPP). This milestone…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday mocked tiny Lesotho as a country “nobody has ever heard of” as he defended his sweeping cuts in aid. Trump highlighted the landlocked African constitutional monarchy during…

Rwanda has billed the United Kingdom £50 million for its cancelled deportation scheme, escalating a diplomatic row between the two countries. This is despite the UK government’s announcement days after the…

Hoërskool Waterkloof in Pretoria achieved the highest number of distinctions of all government schools in South Africa and outperformed…

An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to Nigeria and other countries in West Africa, consequently driving a major public health crisis in the…

France has handed over its only military base in Ivory Coast to local authorities, marking an end to decades of French presence at the site. According to AFP, the French and Ivorian defence ministers signed a document to…

The gutting of US foreign aid has left Ghana facing a $156 million funding shortfall, with the health care and agriculture sectors bracing for shortages of drugs and fertiliser. A funding freeze ordered by President…

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he would step down after his second term, dismissing the rumours about a tenure extension. Asked to speak on calls for his tenure extension to 2030, Mr Mnangagwa…

Muhsin Hendricks, popularly recognised as the world’s first openly gay imam, has been shot and killed in South Africa. The 57-year-old cleric, who led a mosque in Cape Town known as a safe haven for LGBTQ+ and…

Djibouti’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has been elected as the new Chairperson of the African Union…

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed non-White South…

A deluge of more than 20,000 queries crashed the email server of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the United States after President Donald Trump said he would prioritise white South Africans in a refugee…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a South African Marxist–Leninist and pan-Africanist political party, has fiercely rejected comments made by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who called for the party’s…

Groups representing some of South Africa's white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and…

A suspected jihadist attack on a convoy escorted by Malian soldiers and Russia’s Wagner mercenaries has killed 32 people in northern Mali, officials said on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday between the northern…

President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg’s denials. The law would “enable the…

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has disclosed that his country "will not be bullied," by United States over the reform and geopolitical tensions. Ramaphosa said this on Thursday while responding to…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has told CNN he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, although he is the Commander-in-Chief. Recall that fighting…

John Dumelo, the renowned Ghanaian actor and politician, has been nominated as the deputy minister for food and agriculture by President John Mahama. The actor’s nomination was announced through a post on X by…

US President Donald Trump’s assertions in an interview and on his social media platform Truth that the South African government is “confiscating…

The Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) has noted with renewed concern and frustration the recent rash of incidents that disrupted…

The South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, says his government’s land policy is in the interest of citizens and does not warrant official…