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VETERAN Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga launches his fifth bid for the presidency on Friday, this time with the support…
A KEY Benin opposition leader went on trial on terrorism charges on Friday, nine months after she was arrested just…
THE US has sanctioned Liberia’s ex-warlord and current senator Prince Yormie Johnson for alleged corruption. The sanctions against Johnson, announced…
PRESIDENT Roch Marc Christian Kabore faced demands Thursday for tougher action against Burkina Faso’s jihadi insurgency, a day after the…
THE World Bank has withdrawn its support for a population and housing census in Sierra Leone just days before it…
POLICE in Malawi have arrested two former cabinet ministers and a former reserve bank governor over the sale of a…
BURKINA Faso President Roch Kabore fired his prime minister on Wednesday amid an escalating security crisis that has killed thousands…
TANZANIA marked its 60th independence anniversary on Thursday, with President Samia Suluhu Hassan (pictured) hailing the country’s progress even as…
GAMBIA’S newly re-elected president, Adama Barrow, said on Tuesday that his government plans to draft a new constitution that would…
ETHIOPIA’S Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Wednesday that he was returning to Addis Ababa from the battlefront after pro-government forces…
ETHIOPIA on Tuesday accused the United States of ‘perpetuating a destructive narrative’ after Washington and its allies sounded the alarm over…
A SPECIAL court in Benin on Tuesday sentenced one of the country’s opposition figures, Joel Aivo, to 10 years in…
GAMBIAN police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse supporters of losing presidential candidate Ousainou Darboe as they took to…
WITH a population of 1.4 million, Equatorial Guinea is one of the smallest countries in Africa. The country possesses abundant…
THE African Union (AU) restated its support for the political transition process in Guinea, which remains under military rule three…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been honoured with the status of a traditional chief in Cote d’Ivoire. He was…
GENERAL Abdel Fattah al Burhan has announced Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023. Burhan said the deposed former ruling…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Accra on Saturday to begin a two day tour of Ghana where he…
POLLS opened in Gambia on Saturday with voters using a unique voting system, marbles dropped in each candidate’s ballot drum,…
RECENTLY, when the corruption scandal involving Credit Suisse’s phantom loan to Mozambique emerged, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, in reaction…