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The ruling military junta in the Niger Republic has reportedly agreed to revise its transition period to democracy. Speaking on Niger’s national television on Thursday, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign minister and chief…

Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday announced that visitors to Kenya from across the world will no longer require a visa from January 2024. According to Reuters, Ruto said his government had developed a digital…

A trial of an experimental vaccine across Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa has been prematurely stopped due to preliminary data indicating its ineffectiveness in preventing infection, according to the trial’s…

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Sunday warned member states against alliances seeking to divide the community and destroy its fragile unity. The subregional body took the stand on Sunday at…

A former Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma has been confined to his home, the government said Saturday, after he was questioned over what it calls an attempted coup at the end of November. The office of the…

The Ugandan government is facing criticisms from opposition groups and the public over the quantity of its delegation to the United Nations climate change conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With 600…

Britain and Rwanda signed a new treaty on Tuesday, aiming to revive a contentious proposal by London to transfer migrants to the East African country. The agreement was formalised by Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has expressed its readiness to resume electricity supply to Niger Republic whenever Nigeria lifts the ban on the neighbouring country. The company’s General Manager for…

A South African company is set to begin production of vaginal rings that protect against HIV, beating Nigeria to the innovation which experts on AIDS say should eventually make the solution cheaper and more available. The…

Some Namibians have expressed outrage over the inclusion of President Hage Geingob’s children in the government’s delegation to the ongoing COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In a list published by the…

Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says Nigeria will continue to engage with the military government of the Niger Republic to ensure the release of the country’s deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. According to…

Ten years after the death of Nelson Mandela, the ‘fabled’ destroyer of apartheid remains a global icon, but in South Africa some say it is time to end Mandela-mania. A nine-metre tall (30-foot) statue of Mandela, his…

The government of China has donated 450 gasoline generators to South Africa to alleviate the impact of load shedding in the country. Chen Xiadong, Chinese ambassador to South Africa, presented the generators to Xgosientsho…

Gunshots were fired overnight in Guinea-Bissau’s capital, Bissau and continued into Friday morning, Reuters reporters said. The circumstances of the shooting remain unclear. One journalist said gunshots were first…

Kiara Health, a South African company, is set to start locally manufacturing vaginal rings in the next few years for protection against HIV among African women, the Population Council announced on Thursday. The silicone rings…

A German court on Thursday sentenced Bai L. a guard of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to life in prison for crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder that led to the death of a journalist and two other opponents of…

A Moroccan Appeal court on Monday sentenced a man to three years in prison for insulting King Mohammed VI in social media posts, criticising…

South Africans and some other social media users have expressed disappointment over the inauguration of a water tap by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa, on Sunday, launched a tap in Jozini local municipality in…

The United States government has condemned the military breach and unrest in the West African country of Sierra Leone, while pledging its support for democracy and peace. The US Embassy in Sierra Leone made the…

A military armoury in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown came under attack on Sunday, the government announced, as it imposed an…

The Kenyan president, William Ruto, has announced that his administration is poised to privatize 35 state-owned companies which he said are underperforming due to inefficiency in bureaucracy, according to BBC.…

Ghana’s cocoa marketing board, COCOBOD, has agreed to its yearly loan for cocoa purchases with international banks at a record-high interest rate of 8% according to reports from Bloomberg. This increase comes in…

A tally of results in Liberia has shown that President George Weah could lose his bid for a second term.  After releasing nearly all the results from this week’s runoff election on Friday evening, the country’s …

Former Vice President of Liberia and candidate of the Unity Party, Joseph Boakai, is leading in the presidential run-off election results so far…