A KEY Benin opposition leader went on trial on terrorism charges on Friday, nine months after she was arrested just before President Patrice Talon’s re-election in April. Reckya Madougou, one …
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SEVEN United Nations peacekeepers were killed on Wednesday when a logistical convoy struck an explosive device in central Mali, the UN mission MINUSMA said. “The initial toll is seven dead …
THE World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended distribution of food aid in two northern Ethiopian towns after gunmen looted its warehouses. Looters from rebel Tigrayan forces held aid staff at …
A POLICE officer in Kenya shot dead his wife and five other people with an AK-47 in the early hours of Tuesday morning, officials have said. A neighbour heard “a …
ETHIOPIA’S government said Monday it had recaptured two strategic towns from rebel fighters, the latest in a rapid series of battlefield victories claimed by forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy …
SUDANESE police fired tear gas on Monday as thousands of protesters rallied against the military-dominated government near the presidential palace in Khartoum, witnesses told AFP. Separately in the country’s far-west, …
THE Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has easily won re-election, authorities there said, in the first vote for decades held without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. President Barrow received around 53% of …
GAMBIANS voted on Saturday in the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile. The voting will be closely watched as …
MILITANTS have killed at least 31 people in central Mali when they fired upon a bus ferrying people to a local market and attacked a UN convoy in the north of the …
CHAD junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has moved up to a higher rank in the military, from a lieutenant general to a general. On Wednesday, the Chadian leader wore …