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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…

President Donald Trump has said he would be cutting off all future funding to South Africa due to poor treatment of “certain classes of people.”…

Rwanda-backed fighters advanced on a second front in their lightning offensive across eastern DR Congo on Wednesday after seizing control of most of the key city of Goma during heavy fighting with the Congolese…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has directed its members to continue granting citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic free movements despite the exit of the three countries from the…

Junta-led Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso will officially quit the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on…

A mass jailbreak was taking place on Monday morning at a prison in the besieged Congolese city of Goma, hours after fighters from the armed group M23 and Rwandan troops entered the city, a security source told AFP.…

Kenyan President William Ruto has voiced his support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that the U.S. government will…

The Kenyan government has approved recommendations to enhance its electronic travel authorisation (eTA) system for African visitors. The approval was granted during the federal government’s first cabinet meeting of…