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Zambia’s former first lady, Esther Lungu, has been arrested on money laundering charges, her lawyer said Friday, days after her husband claimed he was being targeted as part of a political vendetta. Lungu, 66, was held…

Bismarck Rewane, chief executive officer of Financial Derivatives, says Ghana is now doing better than Nigeria economically. Rewane spoke on Wednesday on Channels TV while analysing President Bola Tinubu’s first year in…

The African National Congress (ANC) may be on course to lose the parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years, following the early…

South Africa’s ruling ANC was fighting Wednesday to defy expectations that it could lose its three-decade-long exclusive grip on power, as voters turned out for a watershed general election. More than 27 million voters…

Bracing up for tomorrow’s election, one of these politicians will become South Africa’s next President, commander-in-chief of it’s armed forces for the next five years. The African National Congress (ANC), a major…

Chad’s new Prime Minister Allamaye Halina announced his first government on Monday marking an end to three years of military rule in the desert nation. Senior ministers, mostly allies of President Mahamat Idriss Deby…

South Africa’s general election witnessed early turnout on Monday as those who must work on polling day or who have special needs were given a…

Burkina Faso’s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman said. “The duration of the…

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is losing ground, according to a poll released on Friday, less than a week before the tightest election since the advent of democracy in 1994. The ANC, which has been…

Chad, on Thursday, ended three-year military rule as Mahamat Deby was sworn in as president after an electoral victory contested by the opposition. The inaguration was graced by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and seven…

Three Americans have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for their alleged involvement in a failed coup attempt. The men were apprehended following a shootout in the capital, Kinshasa, and are…

The South African apex court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament seat days before the country’s election. Mr Zuma was disqualified for the May 29 election based on his 15-month jail…

The DR Congo military on Sunday thwarted an attempted coup near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa involving “foreigners and Congolese”, the army spokesperson said. The coup bid took place in the early…

A devastating incident has sparked outrage and calls for justice, as a 43-year-old Nigerian citizen, Prince Ebuka, was allegedly shot and killed by South African police in Danielskuil, Northern Cape. According to…

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo of Ghana has granted Ghanaian citizenship to music maestro, Stevie Wonder, at a ceremony at the Jubilee House in Accra. Akufo-Addo disclosed this on his official X account on Tuesday. His…

Libyan authorities arrested several high-ranking customs officials in connection with a foiled attempt to smuggle about…

Cape Town the second-largest city and legislative capital of South Africa has been ranked the second-best city in the world this year according to a survey of major world cities by Timeout, a global media and hospitality…

Mali's leadership has proposed postponing democratic elections for three years and extending the tenure of military leader Assimi Goita. This move…

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has extended his warm congratulations to the President-Elect of the Republic of Chad, Mahamat Déby, on his election victory. President Tinubu affirmed that the successful conduct of elections in the…

The death toll from a building collapse in South Africa climbed Friday to 12 with 40 people still unaccounted for, four days after the structure came crashing down. The tragedy struck Monday afternoon when an…

Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released on Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on power.…

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that abolishes presidential elections. The new constitution has been widely condemned by the opponents and civil societies saying it…

Rescuers raced against time to find more survivors amid the rubble of a deadly building collapse in South Africa on Wednesday, as search operations were about to enter their third day. Dozens of people are still…

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda took a bold swipe at world leaders during his speech at the World Bank’s International Development Association summit for African Heads of state, held in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday. In…