2019-06-14 07:27
After 10 days of growing condemnation Sudan’s military rulers say they “regret that some mistakes happened” during the operation to clear the protest sit-in. But appar… Read More
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2019-06-14 06:39
The United Nations raised concerns on Thursday over reports that Sudan’s militias and Rapid Support Forces gang-raped women protesters and medical personnel during a crackdown on demon… Read More
2019-06-14 06:32
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said Thursday that his country was seeking to join the East African Community, a regional political and economic bloc.The DRC shares b… Read More
2019-06-13 17:12
The head of a parliament aligned with forces trying to seize the Libyan capital Tripoli from the internationally backed government said on Thursday there could be no peace talks until they h… Read More
2019-06-13 17:02
Authorities repatriated the relatives of two people who died of Ebola in Uganda back to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, including a 3-year-old boy confirmed to be suffering fro… Read More
2019-06-13 16:52
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali went on Thursday to visit the site of an ethnic massacre in central Mali in which gunmen killed dozens of people, his office said. Attackers bel… Read More
2019-06-13 16:45
“African Voices”: political cherry picking at its worst!Early this week, a motley network of African writers and journalist wrote an open letter to President Isaias Afwerki expre… Read More
2019-06-12 10:39
Police in Ghana have rescued two Canadian women who were kidnapped in Ghana’s second city, Kumasi, last week.The two were found on Wednesday morning, according to a statement signed by… Read More
2019-06-12 08:19
The chairman of Ghana’s main opposition party was released on bail on Tuesday evening after being briefly detained in the capital, Accra.Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, who is from the National D… Read More
2019-06-12 07:13
Gabon hopes to lead by example in stamping out illegal logging of the world’s tropical hardwoods, a prominent British conservationist said on Tuesday after being named the central Afri… Read More
2019-06-12 06:56
Sudan’s military and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks on the formation of a transitional council, an Ethiopian envoy said on Tuesday, as an opposition alliance said it was… Read More
2019-06-11 09:17
Egypt is trying to prevent the sale of a bust of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun at an auction in London early next month at the Christie’s auction house. The Egyptian embassy in London h… Read More
2019-06-11 08:00
Kenyan police have shot and wounded a fifth year student of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology brandishing a knife after he climbed into the grounds of state house in the… Read More
2019-06-11 06:32
A 21-year-old Ethiopian woman has taken one of her secondary school leaving exams 30 minutes after giving birth, she has told the BBC.Almaz Derese, who is from Metu in western Ethiopia, had… Read More
2019-06-11 06:18
Senegal’s justice ministry asked prosecutors on Monday to launch an inquiry into the country’s energy contracts after a report alleged that the president’s brother was invo… Read More
2019-06-11 06:07
Sudan’s opposition plans to nominate eight members of a transitional council and name a prominent economist to head a government, a leader in the alliance of protesters and opposition… Read More
2019-06-10 14:44
Sudan has deported to South Sudan three members of a rebel movement detained last week in the wake of a deadly raid on a protest sit-in, an official in the movement said on Monday.The three… Read More
2019-06-10 14:31
Attackers believed to belong to the Fulani ethnic group raided a rival Dogon village in central Mali overnight, killing at least 95 people and burning houses to the ground, local and governm… Read More
2019-06-10 05:21
A campaign of civil disobedience to demand civilian rule left the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum largely deserted as the working week began on Sunday, while a 20-year-old man was… Read More
2019-06-08 06:39
Liberians are angry about the apparent disappearance of state funds, they trooped to the street on Friday for protest march themed Save The State to demand answers.According to the BBC their… Read More
2019-06-07 14:45
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has warned opposition leaders against inciting their supporters following two days of protests in the capital, Lilongwe.In a televised speech, and in… Read More
2019-06-07 14:44
The president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, was released without charge in France on Friday, a day after being arrested for questioning, the Marseille public p… Read More
2019-06-07 13:00
Liberians on their way to a mass protest dubbed “Save the State” in Monvoria, Liberia, have abandoned their vehicles as police searches have brought traffic to a standstill.Shops… Read More
2019-06-07 12:38
Ethiopia’s prime minister was in Khartoum on Friday to meet the chief of Sudan’s ruling military council in a bid to ease the political crisis that has followed the overthrow of… Read More
2019-06-07 06:40
Eastern Libyan forces on Thursday conducted an air strike for a second night on the military section of the only functioning airport of the Libyan capital, a statement by the force said.&nbs&hell…Read More
2019-06-07 06:24
Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah called on Thursday for all parties to launch an “inclusive dialogue” to prepare for presidential elections, following the co… Read More
2019-06-07 06:14
Liberian President George Weah faces a key test on Friday when demonstrators take to the streets of Monrovia to protest at inflation and corruption.The nation’s football icon is being… Read More
2019-06-07 06:04
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is expected in Sudan on Friday to mediate between the country’s military rulers and the opposition protest movement. His visit follows the kill… Read More
2019-06-06 16:25
The US ambassador to Malawi has been forced to hurriedly leave the main opposition party’s headquarters as police fired teargas.Police were firing the teargas at protesters outside who… Read More
2019-06-06 14:52
Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad was being questioned by French authorities in Paris on Thursday morning, world football’s governing body FIFA said.Ahmad… Read More
2019-06-06 14:45
The African Union Peace and Security Council says it had suspended Sudan until a civilian government was formed, intensifying international pressure on the country’s new military ruler… Read More
2019-06-06 14:18
Russia said it opposed foreign intervention in Sudan and the authorities in Khartoum must subdue what it described as extremists, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. Deputy Foreign… Read More
2019-06-06 14:06
Egyptian security forces have killed 14 suspected militants during a raid carried out in the restive Sinai Peninsula in response to a deadly checkpoint attack, the authorities said.Wednesday… Read More
2019-06-06 09:14
POPE Francis has changed the Lord’s Prayer after becoming frustrated at a line suggesting God might lead people into temptation.The head of the Catholic Church officially approved alte… Read More
2019-06-06 08:03
The U.S. Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi’s Mkango Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their supplies of strategic minerals, part of a plan… Read More
2019-06-06 07:28
It’s no secret that former Botswana president Ian Khama wants to see his successor, President Mokgweetsi Masisi, toppled. Then at the end of May 2019, after weeks of speculation, Khama… Read More
2019-06-06 06:24
Senegalese President Macky Sall said on Wednesday the government would find out the truth after a report alleged his brother Aliou Sall had been involved in fraud related to two major offsho… Read More
2019-06-06 06:04
The Swiss authorities have filed a suit against Nigeria at the international court over the detention of San Padre Pio, its vessel.The Cable reported that the Operation Forward Base of the N… Read More
2019-06-05 13:22
Sudanese protest leaders dismissed a call Wednesday for talks with
the ruling generals, saying the military cannot be serious about
negotiations while troops keep shooting and killing protes… Read More
2019-06-05 13:03
Officials say at least six people have been killed and 17 injured following a landslide in the Eastern Ugandan district of Bududa in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It is feared that t… Read More
2019-06-05 12:32
The Islamic State group has claimed a presence in Mozambique for the first time, announcing that its militants had repelled an army attack in the north of the country.Over the past year, att… Read More
2019-06-05 12:22
The brother of Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaoré could be sent home from France to face questions over the murder of a prominent journalist, after a court in Paris app… Read More
2019-06-05 09:40
The rape lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly been dropped. Ronaldo has denied the allegations made by Kathryn Mayorga that she was raped by the Juventus star in a Las Vegas hote… Read More
2019-06-05 08:52
Egyptian security personnel were killed Wednesday, June 5 in militant attacks on several security posts in the restive North Sinai region, according to media reports.One of the checkpoints n… Read More
2019-06-05 08:18
The number of people killed since security forces stormed a protest camp outside Sudan’s Defence Ministry in central Khartoum two days ago has risen significantly to 60, a doctors grou… Read More
2019-06-05 07:54
A conflict that has forced half a million people from their homes in Cameroon was on Wednesday named the world’s most neglected displacement crisis by aid workers who said the country… Read More
2019-06-04 11:50
Lawyers for a woman who accused Brazil star Neymar of rape are no longer representing her because of contradictions in her story, Globo TV reported on Monday.The lawyers said the woman initi… Read More
2019-06-04 11:04
Sudan’s opposition on Tuesday rejected a plan by its military rulers to hold elections within nine months, a day after the worst bout of violence since Omar al-Bashir was ousted as pre… Read More
2019-06-04 06:27
In a move to back the recent plastic bag ban, Tanzanian President John Magufuli made a surprise visit to a fish market in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, brandishing a reed basket.He… Read More
2019-06-04 05:45
Sudan’s ruling military council said on Tuesday it was canceling all agreements with the main opposition coalition and called for elections within nine months, following the worst viol… Read More
2019-06-03 20:01
A federal court in Lagos on Monday blocked Nigeria’s financial watchdog from replacing Oando’s chief executive and taking other action against the oil firm, pending further heari… Read More
2019-06-03 19:53
Caster Semenya will not need to take testosterone-reducing medication to compete after a Swiss court temporarily suspended a new IAAF ruling.The Olympic 800m champion, 28, last month lost he… Read More
2019-06-03 18:55
A former South African police officer will face trial over the 1971 killing of an anti-apartheid activist after a court ruling that could lead to the prosecution of similar crimes.The high c… Read More
2019-06-03 08:59
Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has denied that it used force to disperse protests outside the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum.“Sudanese forces did not dis… Read More
2019-06-03 08:03
Sudan’s protest organisers have called for a campaign of civil disobedience to topple the military council that has been running the country since long-time President Omar al-Bashir wa… Read More
2019-06-03 06:35
President Muhammadu Buhari’s slow decision-making process could once again impede his second term in office and endanger the economy.One week after signing the N8.92 trillion 2019 budg… Read More
2019-06-03 05:41
Sudanese security forces entered the site of a sit-in in central Khartoum early on Monday amid gunfire, witnesses and Arab television stations said, in what activists said called an attempt… Read More
2019-05-31 16:23
Armed Islamist militants have killed at least 15 people in the central Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, local newspaper Opais reports.The incident occurred when a group of militants, loc… Read More
2019-05-31 16:10
The Malawi opposition leader who placed a close second in the presidential election said Friday he has petitioned the High Court to nullify the results, calling them “daylight robbery… Read More
2019-05-31 12:31
Tens of thousands of Congolese are descending on a stadium in the capital to pay their respects to the late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.The 84-year-old died in Belgium two years ag… Read More
2019-05-31 06:11
Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrators converged on central Khartoum on Thursday night demanding civilian rule amid increasing tensions with the country’s military rulers who accu… Read More
2019-05-31 06:03
The body of Congo’s longstanding opposition figurehead and statesman Etienne Tshisekedi arrived home on Thursday to a packed and emotional welcome after a two-year wait in a Belgian mo… Read More
2019-05-30 14:16
Congolese forces killed 26 rebels on Thursday from a group thought to be linked to Islamic State while repelling an attack in east Congo’s Ebola zone, the army said. The shootout… Read More
2019-05-30 13:44
Six weeks after a coup d’etat in Sudan, high-profile military leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is evolving into an increasingly influential political force.The involvement of so po… Read More
2019-05-30 09:28
Mozambique says it needs $3.2 billion to recover from a pair of
powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation
earlier this year and left hundreds dead, raising alar… Read More
2019-05-30 08:59
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement legally came into effect at midnight, but the countries that have signed up have until July to work out the details of how it will work. It… Read More
2019-05-30 08:11
Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya is to appeal a Court of Arbitration ruling against her.AFP reports that the South Africn athlete has lodged an appeal in Switzerland’s… Read More
2019-05-30 07:46
A group of teens is set to make aviation history as they plan to fly a light aircraft from Cape Town to Cairo in Egypt.The group of 20 plans to fly the 10 139km distance on June 12 in a plan… Read More
2019-05-30 06:45
The body of opposition leader and father of Democratic Republic of Congo’s new president is set to arrive to his home country on Thursday, two years after he died in Belgium, his famil… Read More
2019-05-30 06:06
Angola’s main opposition party, Unita, has moved to cool tensions over the handling of the remains of former leader Jonas Savimbi, AFP news agency reports.A row erupted between the Ang… Read More
2019-05-30 05:36
The Eritrean government has welcomed the impending removal of the country from a blacklist of nations that the US accuses of “not fully co-operating” with anti-terrorism efforts… Read More
2019-05-29 10:15
Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a 2nd four-year term as president, he arrived the Eagle Square venue of swearing in ceremony at 10.03 am, in company of wife, Aisha.P… Read More
2019-05-29 07:04
An Algerian human rights campaigner and Mozabite Berber activist died in pre-trial detention on Tuesday, his lawyer said, accusing judicial authorities of causing his death.Kameleddine Fekha… Read More
2019-05-29 06:41
One of the most-wanted Egyptian militants who was captured in neighbouring Libya last year has been transferred to Egypt, state media reported on Wednesday.Libyan strongman Khalifa Haft… Read More
2019-05-29 06:24
West African states fighting Islamist militancy in the region should not take France’s military presence for granted because Paris will not be there forever, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves… Read More
2019-05-29 06:07
Botswana’s former President Ian Khama has told the BBC that his successor, who he used to see “as a brother”, is now “drunk on power”. He said “During the… Read More
2019-05-28 21:48
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday urged opposition parties to accept the outcome of an election clouded by fraud allegations as he was sworn in for a second term.Thousands… Read More
2019-05-28 21:39
Sudanese workers began a national strike on Tuesday, leaving air and bus passengers stranded as protesters piled pressure on the military to hand power to a civilian administration.The leade… Read More
2019-05-28 21:25
A mob in eastern Congo killed an Ebola health worker and looted a clinic, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, underscoring a breakdown in public trust that is hampering efforts to contain t… Read More
2019-05-28 21:12
South Africa’s deputy president David Mabuza was sworn in as a lawmaker on Tuesday, after a week’s postponement for him to address accusations he brought the ruling African Natio… Read More
2019-05-28 20:53
Tanzania expects a consortium of international oil companies to start building a long-delayed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in 2022, its energy minister said on Tuesday. Construct… Read More
2019-05-28 06:28
Sudan’s alliance of opposition and protest groups said on Monday that it would push ahead with a general two-day strike starting on Tuesday, in an escalation of tensions with the rulin… Read More
2019-05-27 22:59
Eight former soldiers were sentenced on Monday for plotting to overthrow Gambia’s president Adama Barrow in 2017 with the help of his ousted predecessor, the country’s Court Mart… Read More
2019-05-27 22:44
President Peter Mutharika won Malawi’s presidential election with 38.57% of votes, the electoral commission said on Monday, narrowly securing another five-year term after delays over s… Read More
2019-05-27 22:31
At least nine illegal gold miners have died in Zimbabwe after they detonated explosives underground and were trapped at a mine owned by unlisted London-headquartered Metallon Corporation nor… Read More
2019-05-27 22:12
Two former heads of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) were cleared of corruption charges on Monday after a high-profile case that led to a bustup with FIFA.Ex-SLFA president Isha… Read More
2019-05-27 21:53
French police have arrested a 24-year-old Algerian computer student suspected of planting a bomb in Lyon last week that wounded 13 people, authorities said on Monday. Three other people… Read More
2019-05-27 07:35
With talks suspended between protest leaders and Sudan’s military over a transfer of power to civilian rule, Islamist movements are backing the army in the hope it will keep sharia law… Read More
2019-05-27 07:14
Madagascar holds parliamentary elections Monday in what is being seen as the latest round of a bitter feud between President Andry Rajoelina and his longstanding rival Marc Ravalomanana.Beat… Read More
2019-05-27 06:58
Gunmen burst into a church in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday and shot dead four people, a security source said – at least the fourth attack on Christians in the past month. Other… Read More
2019-05-27 06:47
Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar has ruled out a ceasefire in the battle for Tripoli and accused the United Nations of seeking to partition Libya, according to an interview published… Read More
2019-05-27 06:38
Algeria will block Total from acquiring Anadarko’s assets in Algeria, energy minister Mohamed Arkab told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on Sunday. Occidental Petroleum… Read More
2019-05-24 15:04
Ghana’s football star Asamoah Gyan has been given a new title after he was stripped of the team captain role for the national team. Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, named Gyan &ld&hell…Read More
2019-05-24 09:37
South Africa’s women’s football team – Banyana Banyana – will for the first time earn the same amount of bonuses as the men’s team when they take part in the Fi… Read More
2019-05-24 09:17
Senegal started importing turbines for its first large-scale wind farm on Thursday, the biggest such project in West Africa that will supply nearly a sixth of the country’s power. &hell…Read More
2019-05-24 06:21
Rockets hit a luxury hotel in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, early on Friday in an attack the internationally recognized government blamed on eastern forces trying to capture the city. &hell…Read More
2019-05-24 06:10
Libya’s coast guard rescued 290 migrants clinging to inflatable rafts on Friday in two operations near the capital Tripoli, a naval forces spokesman said. The western coast of Lib… Read More
2019-05-24 05:55
Malawi’s scandal-hit President Peter Mutharika is leading his rivals after the counting of 75% of votes in Tuesday’s fiercely contested election, partial results released by the… Read More
2019-05-24 05:43
Sudan’s protest leaders are calling for mass rallies across the
country amid deadlocked negotiations with the ruling military over its
handover of power.The Sudanese Professionals&rsqu&hell…Read More
2019-05-23 08:19
A ten billion dollars port project in Tanzania backed by China has hit an impasse, with the two sides disagreeing on terms of the infrastructure investment, a senior Tanzanian port official… Read More
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