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Ivory Coast opposition chief detained for creating rival government

-- 2020-11-07 18:11:53

Ivory Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattara’s election vict...

Ethiopia’s PM says air strikes in north will continue as risk of civil war looms

-- 2020-11-07 14:14:41

Ethiopian jets bombed the Tigray region on Friday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged more air strikes in the escalating conflict, as reports emerged that Tigrayan forces had seized control of key f...

Tanzania opposition rejects presidential election result, wants fresh vote

-- 2020-10-31 21:18:48

Tanzania’s two leading opposition parties said on Saturday they would not recognise the results of a presidential election that handed incumbent John Magufuli a second five-year term, reports Re...

Opposition in Seychelles wins presidency for first time in 43 years

-- 2020-10-25 17:40:36

The Seychelles elected an opposition candidate as president for the first time since 1977, authorities announced on Sunday, and winner Wavel Ramkalawan reaffirmed a pledge to hike the minimum wage aft...

At least six children killed in attack on Cameroonian school

-- 2020-10-24 21:49:06

Gunmen killed at least six children and badly wounded about eight others when they stormed a school in Cameroon's Anglophone South West Region on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, officials a...

Sudan agrees to normalise relations with Israel, Trump announces

-- 2020-10-24 13:50:20

Sudan is to normalise relations with Israel - the latest in a series of Arab League countries to do so. At the same time, US President Donald Trump has removed Sudan from the US list of state sponsor...

Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition activist

-- 2020-09-19 19:34:46

Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday, report...

South Africa commits $650 million to ailing airline SAA

-- 2020-09-18 16:38:01

The South African government has told administrators of South African Airways (SAA) that there is a ‘clear cabinet commitment’ to provide the state airline with 10.5 billion rand ($650 mil...

At least 50 feared dead in collapsed gold mine in east Congo

-- 2020-09-12 21:17:36

At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, a local mining NGO said, reports...

Nigerian doctors strike again over benefits amid coronavirus

-- 2020-09-08 19:18:34

Nigerian resident doctors began their second strike of the year over pay and working conditions amid the spread of the new coronavirus, the doctors’ union said on Tuesday. The strike began on M...

Sudan signs peace deal with key rebel groups

-- 2020-09-01 19:23:16

Sudan’s power-sharing government signed a peace agreement with key rebel groups on Monday, a step towards resolving deep-rooted conflicts from the long rule of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. Thr...

Locked out by Covid, refugees' lives on hold

Reuters 2020-08-31 15:56:41

When Michelle Alfaro left her office at the United Nations in Geneva on March 13, her job finding homes for the world’s most vulnerable refugees was under control. Four days later, the new coro...

Militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

Reuters 2020-08-22 19:12:44

Suspected Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute...

45 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya coast

-- 2020-08-20 13:34:40

At least 45 migrants and refugees, including five children, have died in the deadliest shipwreck off Libya this year, the UN refugee agency says. They were among more than 80 people on board a vessel...

Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis

-- 2020-08-19 11:57:08

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and...

11 prisoners shot dead in Papua New Guinea

Xinhua 2020-08-17 17:00:40

Eleven prisoners were shot dead while 33 others remained absconding following a mass jailbreak in Papua New Guinea's (PNG) second largest city, Lae. One prisoner was recaptured by the jail authoritie...

At least seven die after gunmen attack Mogadishu hotel

Reuters 2020-08-17 09:56:45

Militants stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with assault rifles in the late...

South Africa eases lockdown as ‘outbreak reaches peak’

-- 2020-08-16 12:31:05

South Africa's president has said coronavirus infections appear to have peaked in the country, as he announced a sweeping relaxation of lockdown measures. President Cyril Ramaphosa said nearly all re...

South Africa crime rate plummets during coronavirus lockdown

-- 2020-08-15 12:48:31

Crime in South Africa dropped by up to 40 per cent during the first three months of its lockdown, official figures show. The police minister said most types of crimes went down between April and June...

Gunmen kill six French aid workers in Niger

-- 2020-08-10 12:52:36

Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said. The group was attacked in a giraffe reserve just 65 km (40 mi...

South Africa's coronavirus cases surpass half a million

-- 2020-08-02 16:53:49

South Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million, reports Reuters. Africa&rsqu...

South Africa's Covid-19 cases surpass half a million

Reuters 2020-08-02 09:24:10

South Africa’s confirmed cases of Covid-19 have crossed half a million, its health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million. Africa’s most industri...

Kenya arrests two police after ‘shooting incident’, launches enquiry

-- 2020-07-26 16:16:03

Kenya’s national police service has arrested two police officers and opened an investigation after “a shooting incident” in the eastern county of Garissa, the police service said on...

Rwanda spends $60m in four months to contain COVID-19 outbreak

Xinhua 2020-07-21 19:37:59

Rwanda has spent 60 million US dollars within four months on different activities aimed at containing the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, Rwandan minister of health Daniel Ngamije said Monday. T...

Zambian economy hit by COVID-19

Xinhua 2020-07-12 17:40:10

The emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only brought health challenges but economic challenges as well. The pandemic, which has ravaged various countries of the world, has forced countries to...

Africa’s CDC urges more Covid-19 tests, masks, as continent’s cases top 500,000

-- 2020-07-09 15:43:58

African countries urgently need to scale up coronavirus testing and the use of face masks, a regional disease control body said on Thursday, as the epidemic gains traction across the continent with co...

Suicide car bomber hits checkpoint at Somalia’s Mogadishu port

-- 2020-07-04 12:39:28

An explosion shook parts of the Somali capital of Mogadishu early on Saturday as a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint just outside the port, witnesses said, but police made no immediate commen...

Explosion at Astron Energy’s South African refinery kills at least two

Reuters 2020-07-02 15:08:07

An explosion on Thursday at Astron Energy’s South African refinery in Cape Town has killed at least two people and injured several others, a source who works at the 100,000 barrel per day plant...

Sudan, Egypt say Ethiopia will not fill Nile dam without reaching deal

Reuters 2020-06-27 13:47:11

Leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt agreed that Ethiopia will not start filling its Nile dam without reaching an agreement within two weeks, Sudan and Egypt said on Friday. Ethiopia, which is buildi...

Senegal president self-quarantines after contact with Covid-19 case

-- 2020-06-25 13:45:29

Senegalese President Macky Sall is quarantining for two weeks after coming into contact with someone who has since tested positive for the coronavirus, state television said on Thursday. The measure...