Guinea’s attorney general on Wednesday ordered legal proceedings against ousted President Alpha Conde and 26 of his former officials including the former prime minister and...
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I Snub Mali during West Africa Tour over ‘No Progress’ in Fight against Terrorism, UN Chief Explains
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres explained that his snub on Mali during this week’s West Africa tour was because his itinerary was meant to...
South Africans have been called upon by the judiciary to comment on the suitability of the next Deputy Chief Justice, Mandisa Maya after the president’s...
Kenya plans to hike the country’s minimum wage by 12% immediately. President Uhuru Kenyatta who disclosed this on Sunday said the hike is to help...
Morocco Raises Public Sector Minimum Wage by 16%, Private by 10%...
A high committee will be formed to prepare for the establishment of a new Tunisian constitution, President Kais Saied announced over the weekend. “The committee...
Six people died in a blast on Friday at a seaside restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, an ambulance service official said....
Just four months after the end of the last Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new case of the virus has been...
Ousted President Alpha Conde has been released from house arrest, Guinea’s ruling military government announced late on Friday. Coup leader and interim president Colonel Mamady...
Malian authorities has denied the United Nations (UN) human rights investigators access to a village where hundreds of people were killed, the UN disclosed this...
French President Emmanuel Macron took on his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen on Wednesday over the country’s diminishing influence in Africa in their only head-to-head...
Abigail Okunade Some South Africans have been complaining about how meagre the one million rand ($66,000; £50,000) donated toward flood relief effort by the Chinese...
Tech giant Google on Tuesday announced that it will build its first product development centre in Africa, in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi as it positions itself...
Militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Monday’s mortar attack on Somalia’s Parliament. While the joint parliamentary session was in progress, a single mortar shell...
The inaugural trial of Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court was postponed on its first day on Tuesday when lawyers for defendants boycotted proceedings. The...
To help avoid further suspensions, additional measures would be taken to increase security at mines, the president of Burkina Faso's mines chamber said on Monday....