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TWELVE people including a senior army officer are in custody in Burkina Faso after a suspected plot to ‘destabilise institutions’…
THE United Nations called Thursday on Mali’s ruling junta to announce an election timetable amid anger over its suggestion of…
AS the country prepared for next year’s presidential election, opposition politicians formed the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) to select a…
A WEST African air-traffic agency has told Mali that a French military plane violated its airspace, a Malian airport official…
AN American Peace Corps employee in Tanzania in 2019 killed a mother of three and injured two others in a…
NIGERIA lifted its ban on Twitter from midnight on Wednesday, a move that will give millions of people in Africa’s…
RUSSIA and China blocked the UN Security Council on Tuesday from supporting new sanctions on Mali for its military leaders’…
A BUS station in Mali’s capital stands unusually quiet, with foreign passengers left in limbo after West African countries closed…
UN envoy Annadif Saleh says the resurgence of coups d’état, particularly in West Africa is often the consequence of political…
UGANDAN authorities on Tuesday brought criminal charges against an author critical of the government whose ongoing detention has sparked concern…
MALI’S army-dominated government has called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday against stringent sanctions imposed by the West Africa bloc ECOWAS…
POLITICAL dynasties are not new, with families grooming and later handing over power to their offspring. However, analysts say this…
MALI’S military government has reacted strongly to the decision by the regional economic and political grouping ECOWAS to impose sanctions…
SOMALI leaders have announced they struck a deal to complete parliamentary elections by February 25, after repeated delays that have…
ETHIOPIA’S government on Friday announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including opposition figure Jawar…
THE Speaker of Tanzania’s National Assembly Job Ndugai resigned from his position on Thursday days after a public fallout with…
UGANDAN authorities face growing pressure to free an author who has been in detention for 10 days, allegedly over his…
CHINA is transforming Kenya and the rest of Africa through infrastructure projects and investments. Many Africans welcome the developments, while…
CHINA Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Thursday that Beijing would appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, signalling…
THE UN Security Council got five new members Tuesday, as Ghana , Gabon, Albania, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates…