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Takeover: Free Burkina Faso president now, UN tells soldiers
The United Nations on Tuesday deplored the military takeover in Burkina Faso and called for the immediate release of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other top officials. The UN human rights office said it was crucial…
JUST IN: Soldiers detain Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore in apparent coup
“Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, two security sources and a West African diplomat said on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in…
17 dead, 59 injured as explosion rocks Ghana town
At least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday by an explosion that devastated part of a town in western Ghana after a truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle, the government said. “A total of 17 people…
Stampede at church event in Liberian capital kills 29
A stampede at a church gathering in Liberia’s capital Monrovia killed 29 people overnight, the deputy information minister told state radio on Thursday. The incident occurred during an all-night Christian worship event at New…
Facebook shut in Burkina Faso over security concerns
The authorities in Burkina Faso have said they disrupted access to Facebook due to security fears. Government spokesperson Alkassoum Maiga said the authorities did not have to explain themselves on the shutdown first reported…
Fight to Head South Africa’s Ruling Party Intensifies
South Africa’s justice minister fired the latest salvo in a war of words between those who want President Cyril Ramaphosa to remain the ruling party’s head and those who want him ousted in December at a conference where its…
Ethiopia says WHO chief has links to rebellious Tigrayan forces
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…
Burkinabe revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara ‘shot seven times’
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 indigenous ‘king’ arrested for growing pot at presidency
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…
Eight soldiers arrested in Burkina Faso over ‘coup plot’
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…
ECOWAS Imposes Further Sanctions on Mali Junta
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…
Ramaphosa warns against destabilisation as ANC marks 110 years
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…
SA Bans Police Dancing On Social Media Following Recent Trend
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…
Fire guts South African parliament building in Cape Town
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…
South Africa to give Archbishop Desmond Tutu a ‘special official funeral’
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…
Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s ex-president, found liable for 2005 murder of Nigerian migrants
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.…
Harmful New Year prophecies attract five-year jail term – Ghana police warn religious leaders
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…
28 Migrants found dead on Libyan coast
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…
OBITUARY | Desmond Tutu: Tenacious, charismatic, and a thorn in the National Party and ANC’s…
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…
Ex-South African president Jacob Zuma granted leave to appeal imprisonment ruling
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…
TPLF rebels announce retreat to Ethiopia’s Tigray region
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 Recovers From COVID
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…
Airlines to pay $3,500 fine per unvaccinated passenger – Ghanaian Government
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…
Raila Odinga makes fifth bid for Kenya’s presidency with Uhuru Kenyatta’s support
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…