Liberia President George Weah
Liberia slaps travel bans on 15 people as it probes mi...
By AFP Liberia on Thursday imposed travel bans on 15 people, including the son of ex-president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, foll...Read More
Africa
Africa
At least 58 dead in Ethiopia ethnic violence
At least 58 people were killed during a weekend of ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s capital, an Amnesty International r...Read More
Saad Lamjarred
Campaign for radio ban on rape accused Morocco musicia...
A social media campaign has been launched to ban the songs of Moroccan pop star Saad Lamjarred on the country’s radi...Read More
Liberia hunts for $100m in missing bank notes
An inquiry is underway into the disappearance of newly printed bills worth nearly $100 million destined for Liberia’...Read More
100 die in severe flooding in Nigeria: relief agency
Nigeria has declared a national disaster after severe flooding left about 100 people dead across 10 states, the country...Read More
Protests paralyse Ethiopia capital after violence kill...
By AFP Demonstrators flooded the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Monday, blocking roads and shutting businesses in an exp...Read More
Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue
Equatorial Guinea says Brazil search of Vice President...
By Associated Press SAO PAULO: Equatorial Guinea on Monday accused Brazilian authorities of conducting an illegal search a...Read More
Jean-Pierre Bemba
ICC sentences ex-Congo VP to 1 year for witness tamper...
By Associated Press THE HAGUE: Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday re-imposed a one-year prison sentence ...Read More
African tourism alarmed by rhino, elephant losses
By AFP Animal conservation in Africa has suffered several setbacks in recent months prompting experts at an African touris...Read More
Rwanda President Paul Kagame
Rwanda pardons 2,000 prisoners including opposition fi...
Rwanda has pardoned more than 2,000 prisoners, including a top opposition figure. Victoire Ingabire, of the FDU-Inkingi pa...Read More
Former President Honsi Mubarak
Two sons of Egypt’s Mubarak arrested for alleged...
The two sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were arrested on Saturday for alleged stock manipulation, a judici...Read More
Rwanda pardons Kagame’s female opponent jailed in 2013
The Rwandan cabinet has approved a presidential pardon of over 2,000 convicts in a move that will benefit two prominent pe...Read More
Cholera outbreak has killed 55 in Niger: UN
A cholera outbreak in Niger has killed 55 people and sickened thousands near the country’s border with Nigeria since...Read More
Minister Eugene Fahngon
George Weah’s Minister jailed 2 days for insulting M...
No court conviction just a legislative debate and a deputy minister in Liberia was sentenced to two-days in jail for rude ...Read More
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
‘Relax’: South African leader makes the case for l...
By Associated Press JOHANNESBURG: Relax. That’s the message South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has for anyone frett...Read More
President George Weah makes football comeback aged 51
By AFP Liberia president and former world footballer of the year George Weah made a surprise return to international footb...Read More
Africa’s young female ministers: Mali follows Bo...
Mali’s president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday named Kamissa Camara as his new foreign minister, joining a 33 member...Read More
Nigeria gas tanker explosion kills dozens
At least 35 people were killed and hundreds injured when a gas tanker exploded in the northern Nigerian state of Nasarawa ...Read More
Ebola: Outbreak in DR Congo claims 90 lives
New cases of Ebola in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo show the outbreak is not yet under control. The char...Read More
John Magufuli seeks end to contraception in Tanzania
President John Magufuli has urged Tanzanian women to “give up contraceptive methods” insisting his country nee...Read More
