A trial related to one of the worst massacres during Ivory Coast’s post-election crisis of 2010-2011 started on Wednesday. It is a long-awaited trial that could determine who were the... Read more
Eighteen men who were believed to have been held by Uganda’s security services have been freed and allowed to return to their villages. The men were arrested in the run-up to the elections i... Read more
The third wife of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died earlier this month, is expected to name the late monarch’s successor, South African media report. Queen Mantfombi MaDlamini, w... Read more
Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, one of the main contenders in Congo-Brazzaville’s presidential race, died on Sunday after becoming seriously ill with Covid-19. His campaign director told th... Read more
Tanzania’s late President John Magufuli will be buried next Thursday, 25 March, in his western home village of Chato, his successor has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart compl... Read more
South Sudan’s Fourth Vice-President Rebecca Nyandeng, who is the widow of the country’s liberation leader John Garang, has tested positive positive for coronavirus, her office an... Read more
On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken his place as the country’s... Read more
Tanzania’s newly sworn-in President Samia Suluhu Hassan has spoken of the “heavy load” on her shoulders as she takes over as the country’s first female president. Ms... Read more
Reports from Libya say that up to 15 bodies have been found handcuffed and dumped in the eastern city of Benghazi. The security forces have cordoned off the area around a cement factory as t... Read more
South Africa’s apartheid-era President FW de Klerk has been diagnosed with cancer, according to his foundation. It said the former president was found with “mesothelioma, which i... Read more
Goodwill Zwelithini, the 72-year-old king of the Zulu nation in South Africa, was laid to rest at a private ceremony shrouded in secrecy and attended only by a select group of royal men in t... Read more
The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo says 30 people have been killed in fighting between government troops and the Codeco militia in the eastern province of Ituri. The military said... Read more
On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan is due to take his place as the country... Read more
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Ha... Read more
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