The office of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is “not happy” that he was among the world leaders targeted for phone tapping using spyware. The country’s acting minister in the... Read more
Britain has placed an asset freeze and travel ban on the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and four others it accuses of serious corruption. Teodoro Obiang Mangue is accused of misappropri... Read more
The Spanish authorities said more than 200 migrants managed to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco earlier on Thursday. Three hundred migrants had tried to climb the border fen... Read more
Madagascar says it has thwarted an attempt to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina. The chief prosecutor’s office said several Malagasy citizens and foreigners had been arrested this... Read more
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been granted permission to attend the burial of his younger brother, Michael, who is set to be buried on Thursday afternoon. “As a short-t... Read more
Mali has opened investigations into the attempted knife attack on interim leader Assimi Goita inside a mosque during Eid al-Adha festivities. Prosecutor Bourama Kariba Konate said an inquiry... Read more
The death toll in South Africa from the violence that followed the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma has risen to 276. Thousands of businesses were looted in the riots that mainly affec... Read more
An overloaded boat carrying food aid off northern Mozambique has capsized killing at least 12 people. It was travelling between the costal city of Pemba and the island of Ibo off Cabo Delgad... Read more
A well-known former radio DJ in South Africa has been denied bail after appearing in court on charges of inciting violence that followed the jailing of ex-President Jacob Zuma. In a video on... Read more
An activist and national youth co-ordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed for “incitement to civil disobedience”. Jacky Ndala, from the Together for the Rep... Read more
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is among world leaders believed to have targeted for phone tapping using spyware. Known as Pegasus, it infects phones and allows operators to spy on t... Read more
The lawyer of a Nigerian separatist leader has confirmed reports that his client, Sunday Igboho, has been detained by the authorities in neighbouring Benin as he prepared to board a flight t... Read more
The South African authorities are still assessing the true economic cost of the looting and violence that broke out after the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. The estimated... Read more
Tunisia’s Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi has been sacked as the country struggles to cope with surging numbers of coronavirus cases. The disease has put the medical system under severe p... Read more
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