Riot police fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters rallying on Monday against plans to build on part of a national park in Kenya’s capital. Officers moved in and arrested at le...
The United States has imposed sanctions on commanders of armed groups it accused of driving the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where fighting has continued despite mediation e...
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has departed Abuja for Cotonou to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the inauguration of Romuald Wadagni as the President of the Republic of Benin. S...
Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko. The President also dissolved the government, in a move that risks deepening uncertainty in a country grappling w...
Mali’s Defence Minister, General Sadio Camara. has been killed during coordinated attacks on military sites nationwide. The news on Sunday came the day after his residence in the garrison town of Ka...
Gunmen have attacked Mali’s capital, Bamako, and several locations across the country, says Mali’s army in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups. Two loud explosions and s...
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of firearm-related offences linked to a 2018 political rally. The leader of the Econom...
Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh on Saturday claimed a landslide victory in an election that secured his sixth straight term in office, strategically placed in the Horn of Africa nation. Gue...
Libya’s House of Representatives and the High Council of State have approved the country’s first unified state budget in more than 13 years, its central bank said in a st...
Chad intends to deploy 800 police officers and gendarmes to Haiti this year to participate in an international force to help Haiti’s police fight powerful armed gangs, a senior Chadian police of...
…As President Tinubu assures regional body of nation’s commitment to implementation of reforms …Applauds decision to bring Gabon, Guinea back into union’s fold Nigeria has endo...
South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said in a statement late on Saturday. R...
