Zimbabweans on Saturday mourned the death of their country’s founding father Robert Mugabe but confusion swirled about when his body…
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Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has died aged 95, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on his official Twitter account.…
Enough is enough, it is the clear message sent by these Zambian students to respond to xenophobic violence in South…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on donor nations to give the money they’ve pledged to fight Ebola on Monday…
Two generals who were accused of plotting Burkina Faso’s 2015 failed coup have been found guilty and sentenced to 10…
A ban on abortion and harsh sentences in Madagascar is putting women at risk. Volatiana has hidden a terrible secret…
Inflow of refugees and returnees from the Central African Republic to Chad has increased pressure on host communities, now leading…
A Kenyan professor and human rights crusader has described the seventh Japan – Africa summit in Yokohama as a disgrace.…
The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday,…
Spurred by the projection that Africa’s agribusinesses are pressing ahead to create a market worth $1.00 trillion, around N360 trillion…
Following a 2018 spate of inter-communal violence, which has so far displaced 800,000 people in the Gedeo-West Guji Zones of…
A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for Europe capsized Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, with at least…
Over twenty African leaders are participating in seventh edition of the Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD) summit, which…
First president of The Gambia, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, has died at the age of 95, multiple privately-owned portals have reported. President…
Kenya has added intersex to the gender options as it undertakes a population census. Kenya thus becomes the first African…
In an arid region of West South Africa, a mine containing rare earth reserves with some of the highest concentrations…
A host of African leaders are expected in the Japanese city of Yokohama for the seventh edition of the Tokyo…
The human rights record of Cameroon does not seem to be showing any sign of improvement. Reports by rights groups…
Burundi authorities have stepped up health controls along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo increasing surveillance and safety…
The U.S.-China trade war and uncertainty over Brexit pose risks to Africa’s economic prospects that are “increasing by the day,”…
Ghana will offer tax breaks of up to 10 years to automakers that set up local manufacturing plants, as the…
A U.S. judge sentenced a leading Kenyan drug trafficker, Baktash Akasha, to 25 years in prison on Friday after he…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says Africa needs huge investments to create jobs and employ its teeming youthful population, in a…
The first confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province was announced on Friday (August…
Burundi has started vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of…
Uganda said on Wednesday it had recorded a 40% surge in the incidence of malaria, attributing the increase to a…
Two Ebola patients who were treated with new drugs in the city of Goma in eastern Congo have been declared…
The death toll in a fuel tanker explosion that occured in Tanzania has gone up to 69 from the earlier…
The World Health Organisation has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the…
A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three United Nations’ staff on Saturday. The explosion…