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Ethiopia’s foreign ministry has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate its leader for supporting rebellious forces fighting the Ethiopian government. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who…

Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was gunned down during a coup in 1987, was shot at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds, experts have told a long-awaited trial into his killing. Sankara…

South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office for more than three years, AFP reporters saw. Their leader, wearing a…

At least eight soldiers have been reportedly arrested in Burkina Faso for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. Mohamed Zoungrana, an ex-army commander, who is…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced further sanctions against Mali’s military-dominated interim authority. The additional sanctions included the recall for…

South Africa’s ruling ANC marked its 110th anniversary Saturday in low-key fashion as the country reels from the devastating fire in parliament, last year’s deadly riots and emerging details of…

THE days of being slay queens and seeing men and women in blue uniform partaking in social media challenges are now a thing of the past in South Africa. A circular stamped for…

A major fire broke out at South Africa’s seat of parliament in Cape Town early Sunday, sending a thick column of smoke into the sky and threatening the National Assembly building. The fire was…

Late Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be given a ‘special official funeral’, the government of South Africa has said. “President Cyril Ramaphosa has, as a mark of deep respect, declared that the late Anglican Archbishop Emeritus…

Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) says ex-President Yahya Jammeh is responsible for the killing of West African migrants, including nine Nigerians.…

The Ghana Police Service have warned religious leaders to desist from New Year prophecies of “harm, danger and death” and others that could “create tension and panic” in the Anglophone…

The bodies of 28 migrants have washed up on Libya’s western coast after their boat sunk, a security official said Sunday, the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest migration route. “Libyan Red Crescent teams recovered 28…

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate who was post-apartheid South Africa's moral compass and the driver of its troubled reconciliation process, has died. He was 90 years old. A…

The Pretoria High Court has granted former Jacob Zuma leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal. This comes after his medical parole was ruled unlawful. Judge Elias Matojane, who said the case raised “an important…

Rebel Tigrayan forces fighting the central government are withdrawing from neighbouring regions in northern Ethiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces has said, a step towards a possible ceasefire after 13 months of the…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has recovered after a week-long battle with Covid-19. Despite being fully vaccinated, he was confirmed positive with the virus last week Monday and went…

Ghana says airlines will pay a fine of $3,500 for each passenger who arrives the country without being fully vaccinated against COVID. On Thursday, the Ghana Health Service had…

Kenya’s veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has launched his fifth bid for the presidency, this time with the support of his former foe President Uhuru Kenyatta. Voters are due to go to the polls next August but Kenyatta…

As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr Unben Pillay, is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. That’s one of the reasons why he, along with other doctors and…

The Ghana Health Service has reviewed its COVID-19 protocol for international travellers owing to the rise in cases of the Omicron variant detected in the country. In a statement on…

Incumbent president of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, has won the country’s presidential election held on Saturday December 4. Mr Barrow, who contested the election under the flagship of the National People’s…

Gambian President Adama Barrow had a narrow early lead after Saturday’s presidential election, according to provisional results from the first few constituencies to be verified by the…

Moussa Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union Commission, says the travel restrictions that trailed the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant is an injustice against the…

China's President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion Covid vaccine doses to Africa, in a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal's capital Dakar.…