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African immigrants in the UK are the worst hit by the persistent rising cost of living crisis in the country, a new report has found. The report released on Wednesday by , an African communications services…

Liberia President George Weah has sacked the country’s telecommunications minister, Cooper Kruah. The sacking comes a few days after Kruah attended an opposition rally. Kruah reportedly attended a rally…

The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was…

A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply…

A South African government official has said Russian President Vladimir Putin will be arrested if he attends the upcoming BRICS summit slated for August 2023. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is under pressure…

As the Janjaweed militia – a conglomeration of Arab-speaking pastoralists and camel traders recruited to fight recalcitrant African Muslims in Darfur protesting marginalisation because the Sudanese army was busy with the…

The ousted former Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, is currently being held in a military hospital under police custody in Khartoum, the Sudan capital, the country’s army revealed on Wednesday. Reuters…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has said the governing African National Congress (ANC) party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal…

The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said that Sudan's warring generals agreed to a three-day ceasefire starting…

The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest near the coast. A major search is…

South Africa has joined the other countries in evacuating dozens of its diplomats and other citizens trapped in conflict-hit Sudan, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday. This was disclosed by South Africa’s foreign ministry…

Kenyan police said Sunday they had found the bodies of another 26 suspected cult members in the east of the country, bringing to 47 the number of corpses linked to the movement. Search teams wearing white overalls and…

Sudan has been in the midst of fierce fighting, which has left hopes for a peaceful transition to civilian rule in tatters. POLITICS NIGERIA understands that forces loyal to two rival generals have been vying for control,…

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s advance through life, from successful camel trader and commander of a horseback militia to a…

Two gunmen attacked a home in South Africa and shot 10 members of the same family to death. The oldest victim of the mass shooting was 65-year-old while the youngest was a 13-year-old teenager. Jay Naicker, police…

Thousands of residents have fled Khartoum, Sudan’s capital as the war between the army and paramilitary forces continues across the city for a fifth day. A United States-brokered ceasefire between the army and…

Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100. The violence erupted Saturday…

Three East African presidents are planning to travel to Sudan as mediators in a bid to resolve the outbreak of violence between rival military camps. Kenya’s President William Ruto, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and…

President Muhammadu Buhari says the battle that erupted in the Sudanese capital between the military and powerful paramilitary, Rapid Support Forces, RSF, is unwelcome. In a statement, Garba Shehu, the president’s media…

Clashes between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, have killed 56 people and left 595 injured. The tension between the army and the RSF heightened on after heavy gunfire and explosion…

Ghana has made history by becoming the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine that has been dubbed a “world-changer” by its developers. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the vaccine, known as R21, has shown to be…

One of Nigeria’s neighbours to the north, Chad, has expelled the German ambassador because of his “impolite attitude”, the government said in a statement on Saturday.…

Ghanaian Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has berated the United States Vice President Kamala Harris for advocating LGBTQ+ practice in Ghana. Bagbin said the US Vice President’s assertion regarding the…

Renowned Ghanaian Prophet, Eric Asamoah, who is known for the prophecy that the newly Nigerian…