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Thousands of Malians took to the streets of Bamako on Friday, protesting against France, while they waved Russian flags, a week after the French ambassador was expelled. The protesters burned cardboard cut-outs of French…

A political novice, Tunisia’s president stunned opponents and admirers alike by seizing near total state power in a move that thrust his country’s young democracy into turmoil. Kais Saied, a former law professor with an…

South Africa’s tax authority has uncovered a 1.8-billion-dollar gold scam, in which coins and jewellery were illegally smelted into gold bars for sale overseas, a watchdog said Thursday. Between 2012 and 2020, the scammers…

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup on Tuesday and suggested that the plotters may have been linked to drug trafficking. Earlier, heavy gunfire rang out near a government compound where…

Guinea Bissau’s president Umaro Sissoco Embalo said Tuesday that people had been seriously injured or had died in a failed coup in the perennially unstable West African nation. “The attackers could have spoken to me before…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has rejected the timeline for election by the Malian Military Authorities, vowing to keep sanctions on the West African nation.…

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Sunday accused Russian private military company Wagner of plundering Mali’s resources. Tensions have increased between Paris and the country’s military junta in recent weeks,…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of a military coup, making it the third member nation to be punished for a military…

Burkina Faso’s coup leaders have yet to say if they will install a civilian or military leader after deposing President Roch Kaboré, who has since resigned formally. In an interview with VOA, U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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’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…