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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has thrashed speculation about his political future, by announcing on Thursday that he would not stand for re-election in October. He made the declaration in a speech…

South Africa slipped into recession in the final three months of 2019, the country’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday, the second contraction to hit the economy in as many years. It is the third recession the continent’s most…

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who died at the age of 91, will be accorded a military funeral in Cairo today. Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was forced out of…

International soccer star Didier Drogba has helped his birthplace, Côte d’Ivoire, strike gold by helping to collect MOUs for a total of $15 billion in commitments to back tourism…

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He was 91. Mubarak served as Egypt’s fourth president starting in 1981…

Pressure mounted on Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to step down Monday as he appeared in court over the murder of his estranged wife after failing to turn up for a hearing last week. The latest twist in a saga that has…

Two sides have claimed victory in Togo’s presidential election as the main challenger to incumbent Faure Gnassingbe cried foul, citing “revelations of fraud”. The national electoral commission Ceni has yet to announce results from…

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has gone to Cuba to seek medical help for an undisclosed illness. The embattled leader who has a suspended arrest warrant against him left South Africa on…

Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbe, looks set to claim a fourth term at the polls on Saturday and extend his family’s half-century domination of the West…

First Coronavirus case in Africa which was announced last week has tested negative, the World Health Organisation and Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population stated on Wednesday. Egypt’s health ministry had announced last week…

Angola’s ex-president has defended his son and a former central bank governor who are accused of embezzling $500 million from the country’s sovereign wealth fund, court documents showed on Tuesday. Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ family…

Rwandan gospel singer Kizito Mihigo, who was found guilty in 2015 of plotting to kill President Paul Kagame, has been found dead in a police cell, authorities confirmed on Monday. A police statement said Mihigo, 38, had committed…

Ratings company lowers South African economic-growth forecasts South Africa’s rand weakened and bond yields rose after Moody’s Investors Service lowered its forecasts for…

The South African government has decided to establish a sovereign wealth fund as a means to preserve and grow the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced during his…

The Ethiopian House of Peoples Representative (HoPR), the lower house of the Ethiopian parliament, on Thursday ratified a new law that criminalised hate speech and disinformation. The newly approved regulation described hate…

Murder, mystery, suspense and political drama — the cocktail of events playing out in Lesotho belong in a best-selling thriller. But it is the lived reality of a…

Portugal, in a sensational show of action, has ordered a freeze on bank accounts held in the country by Angola’s billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos, as the fraud case against her catches steam. Dos Santos is…

Sudan is handing over ousted leader Omar al-Bashir to the International Court Court (ICC) over charges against humanity, war crimes and genocide, Transitional Sovereign Council announced on Tuesday. Bashir evaded the charges for two…

Ivory Coast’s navy has seized a record amount of cocaine plastic-wrapped in small bundles bearing the tattered logos of French fashion house Louis Vuitton and Pacena Black, a dark beer from…

The first lady of Lesotho was charged with murder and remanded on Wednesday over the fatal shooting of her husband’s previous wife in 2017. Maesaiah Thabane, who was married to Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, had been in…

Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh Mohammed denounced the U.S. ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable”. Nigeria and Eritrea were among…

A South African court has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jacob Zuma, after he skipped court on grounds of needing medical treatment. The judge however suspended the execution of the warrant until 6 May when Zuma’s corruption…

Many world leaders including African heads of state have commiserated with the Kenyan people following the death of its longest-serving President Daniel Moi, who passed on at a…

Gay Tanzanian activist Tee, 34, recalls with nostalgia a time when Tanzania was like “paradise” for LGBT people — before the 2015 election of President John Magufuli ushered in fear and persecution. It’s all relative. Tanzania has…