Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital city of some 3.7 million people is known for its hustling and bustling but also now for something that puts fear...
AFRICA
Residents of the Amhara region in northern Ethiopia bordering Tigray say they are “ready” to support Ethiopian forces in their conflict with the Tigray People’s...
A day after being declared Guinea’s president for a controversial third term by the constitutional court, incumbent Alpha Conde staged an hour-long walkabout in Conakry...
Fuel trader and socialite Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, has been killed in a head-on collision. He was 36. His car veered off the road and...
Thousands of protesters in Senegal burned French flags and pictures of President Emmanuel Macron over his defence of the right to satirize religion and depict...
Seventeen bodies have been unearthed in newly found mass graves in western Libya’s Tarhuna region, the missing persons authority said Saturday. It takes the total...
Ethiopia’s parliament voted to dissolve the government of the northern Tigray region on Saturday as the dispute escalates. It comes a day after the army...
Ivory Coast opposition leader Pascal Affi Nguessan has been arrested for announcing the creation of a parallel government after boycotting last month’s presidential election. The...
Namibia will not consider or process new applications for mineral rights for a period of nine months to review the requirements and procedures, an official...
France is on the verge of cutting back its military presence in the volatile Sahel region to make room for reinforcements from other European countries,...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says there have been airstrikes on military targets in Tigray state, whose leaders have fallen out with the national government....
The Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed has vowed to continue a military offensive in the northern state of Tigray despite international calls for restraint. Tensions...
Sudan has closed the border between its eastern Kassala State and Ethiopia, following rising tensions between Ethiopian federal authorities and the Tigray region. The announcement...
Supporters of one of Africa’s most popular self-styled prophets, Malawian Shepherd Bushiri, have been celebrating outside a court in South Africa after he was released...
At least 640 hectares of farmland in the western Mozambican province of Tete have been swamped following the opening of a floodgate on Cahora Bassa...
The Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) has cancelled the 2020 final secondary school-leaving examinations after a number of test papers were leaked. The leaked subjects...