Gunfire erupted in Bissau on Wednesday as Guinea-Bissau’s President, Umaro Embaló, said he was arrested around 1 p.m. inside his office at the presidential palace, describing...
The United States has sent an 11th-hour request to South Africa to attend the weekend G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg in what appears to be a reversal of...
Former International Relations Minister and chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Naledi Pandor, has had her United States visa revoked. Pandor confirmed to Eyewitness News that...
Cameroon’s opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has declared himself President-elect following the disputed October presidential election. He has also announced the appointment of a prominent lawyer...
Tanzania President Samia Hassan has appointed her daughter and son-in-law as ministers in her government. In a nationwide broadcast on Monday, Mrs Hassan, who was declared...
More than 150 Palestinians who have “mysteriously” arrived in South Africa appeared to have been “flushed out” of the Gaza Strip, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday....
The African Union Commission (AUC) has rejected recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump threatening military action against Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians. In a...
A months-long siege of Mali’s capital, Bamako, by the al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is testing the resilience of a city and the resolve...
The South African government has criticised the US’s decision to prioritise refugee applications from white Afrikaners, saying claims of a white genocide have been widely discredited...
Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya has promised to restore order in the country gripped by post-election violence, as he was sworn in for an eighth consecutive...