A senior Nigerian army officer has been shot dead by gunmen while travelling from the central city of Lokoja to the capital Abuja. Maj-Gen Hassan Ahmed was attacked in the late hours of Thur... Read more
The only female candidate in Somalia’s presidential election has said if she doesn’t win she’ll have broken the glass ceiling for other women to run. Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam... Read more
A total of 450,000 Covid vaccine doses have been destroyed in nine African countries, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. The WHO Africa’s immunisation programme manag... Read more
Ethiopia’s media regulator has suspended the licence of Addis Standard newspaper over what it termed as “advancing terrorist group’s agenda”. The newspaper announced... Read more
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of starting to fight along aid corridors in the war-torn northern Tigray region. The TPLF, the fo... Read more
Lorries owned by Mozambicans have been looted and set on fire by protesters in neighbouring South Africa, an association of road transporters in Mozambique says. The Federation of Road Trans... Read more
South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was temporarily barred from tweeting on his official account for violating Twitter guidelines, local medi... Read more
There’s anger especially among young supporters of Liberia’s governing Congress for Democratic Change party after a junior minister in the office of the president was videotaped splash... Read more
The African Union Commission has condemned the violence in South Africa that has left 72 people dead. Protests against the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma morphed into looting and des... Read more
Islamic police in Kano in northern Nigeria have arrested five men accused of breaking laws on homosexuality. Same-sex relationships are illegal across Nigeria under secular laws, and also pr... Read more
At least 30 people have died in the violence which has been engulfing parts of South Africa since the country’s former President Jacob Zuma handed himself into police last week. Almost... Read more
The UK envoy to South Sudan has urged South Sudanese citizens to hold their leaders accountable for promises they made, Bob Fairweather said while President Salva Kiir and his former rival R... Read more
Nigerian newspapers have jointly published the same front page as part of a campaign by the country’s media industry to oppose two media bills that they see as undermining press freedo... Read more
South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. Shops were looted and buildings set on fire on Monday as Zuma cha... Read more
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