Burundi referendum: president gets right to extend tim...
Associated Press A majority of Burundi’s voters agreed to amend the constitution in changes that could prolong the r...Read More
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President Pierre Nkurunziza
Burundi opposition rejects referendum, alleges intimid...
By Associated Press THE leader of a Burundian opposition coalition said Saturday they would not accept the outcome of a re...Read More
After fumbling Ebola in 2014, Congo is key test for UN
By Associated Press NEARLY four years after the World Health Organization was accused of bungling its response to the bigg...Read More
Bloggers, cyber spies face jail as Kenyatta signs cont...
By AFPKenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping cyber-crimes act criminalising fake news and...Read More
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
Fearing bloodshed, Burundi faces vote on president’s...
By Associated Press BUJUMBURA: Burundians vote Thursday in a referendum that could keep the president in power until 2034 ...Read More
Gambia’s former leader Yahya Jammeh
Rights groups seek prosecution of Gambian ex-leader in...
By Associated Press BANJUL: A survivor, families of the disappeared and human rights organizations are seeking the extradi...Read More
Tanzania: opposition leaders on trial for saying Maguf...
By AFP The head of Tanzania’s main opposition party went on trial on Tuesday with eight other leaders on charges of ...Read More
‘No one cares’: Life in Johannesburg’s ‘hijack...
By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: A rat pauses on the puddled floor before disappearing under a bed. Somewhere in the larg...Read More
Egypt to put 278 people on trial for ‘terrorism&...
By AFP EGYPT’S prosecutor general referred 278 suspected members to military trial Sunday on “terrorism”...Read More
US man hospitalised after shot by own dog
By AFP A 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot by his own dog while playing with the pet in his home, local media reported on...Read More
DRC announces 1st confirmed death from Ebola outbreak
By Associated Press KINSHASA: Congo’s minister of health says the first death from a new outbreak of Ebola in the countr...Read More
Thousands mourn Mozambique rebel leader as talks to pr...
By Associated Press BEIRA: Thousands of people on Wednesday attended the funeral of Mozambican rebel and opposition leader...Read More
Risk of DRC’s latest Ebola outbreak spreading &#...
By Associated Press THE risk of Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak spreading is “very low...Read More
The late Afonso Dhlakama with President Filipe Nyusi
Mozambican leader to pay tribute to late rival Dhlakam...
By AFP MAPUTO: Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, will pay tribute to political rival and main opposition leader ...Read More
New outbreak of Ebola kills 17 in northwest DR Congo
By AFP KINSHASA: Seventeen people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died from Ebola, the health ministr...Read More
No ‘half-naked’ female students in library...
By AFP ZAMBIA’S leading university on Monday asked female students to stop visiting the library “half-naked...Read More
Nigeria military helps rescue 1,000 Boko Haram hostage...
By Associated Press LAGOS: More than 1,000 people held captive in northeastern Nigeria by the jihadi group Boko Haram have...Read More
NIGERIA: 45 dead in attack by armed bandits
By AFP Forty-five people died in an attack by armed bandits in northern Nigeria, civilian militia members said on Sunday, ...Read More
Death toll in South African mining accident rises to 7
By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: A mining company in South Africa says seven workers died and six were rescued after an e...Read More
Renamo names interim leader after Dhlakama’s death
By AFP Mozambique’s Renamo opposition party on Saturday named Ossufo Momade as its interim leader after veteran chie...Read More
