President Ramaphosa begins a two-day working visit to Ghana
President Cyril Ramaphosa has kicked off a two-day working visit to Ghana on Saturday. The visit is part of four West African countries, including Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Senegal to str…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has kicked off a two-day working visit to Ghana on Saturday. The visit is part of four West African countries, including Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Senegal to str…
Uganda said on Friday that its troops sent this week into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo would stay as long as needed to defeat Islamist militants, with the progress of the mission …
Zimbabwe has detected a case of the Omicron variant in the country, its Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said on Thursday on state television. “We are now in a particularly dangerous …
Two soldiers were killed and several more wounded when Islamist militants attacked a border security post in northern Benin on Wednesday night, the army said. The raid in Porga region was…
Congolese authorities on Wednesday sought to allay concerns about the arrival of Ugandan troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for an ongoing joint operation against a militia li…
The Burkina Faso government said it was lifting a suspension on the mobile internet from Sunday evening, a week after imposing the ban for what it said was security and defence reasons. T…
Six Sudanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack by Ethiopian forces on a Sudanese army post near the border between the countries, Sudanese military sources told Reuters . Suda…
At least two people were killed and 18 injured in western Niger on Saturday when protesters clashed with a French military convoy they blocked after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso…
Ethiopia has announced new restrictions on the sharing of information about the war in the north of the country which stipulate that battlefront updates can only come from the government. …
Sierra Leone’s anti-corruption commission has indicted six officials on corruption allegations,including an opposition front-runner for the 2023 presidential election. Samura Kamara was t…
Burkina Faso’s government, facing mounting public anger over repeated killings by Islamist militants, extended its suspension of mobile internet service on Wednesday while offering conflic…
An investigation has been launched into violations committed against protesters since the military power grab on October 25, Sudan’s newly reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said, ac…
Burkina Faso on Tuesday buried many of the 49 military police officers killed in a recent strike on a security outpost, even as the government reported the killing of around 20 more milita…
The strengthening of political and economic relations between South Africa and Kenya is set to dominate talks between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta l…
The United States is lifting restrictions on four Burundians whom it had sanctioned in 2015 over violence in the country, the White House said on Thursday. In 2015, the United States sanc…
United States (US) President Joe Biden will hold a meeting with leaders from Africa in 2022 which would focus on building global partnerships and alliances, the White House said in a stat…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday and discussed domestic and regional security, and West Africa’s democratic backsliding, including A…
At least 43 people have died following raids by gunmen in Nigeria’s Sokoto state this week, three times more than the initial death toll given by officials, a spokesperson for the state go…
Security forces shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens as thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Wednesday on the deadliest day in a month of demonstrations against military…
Washington on Wednesday removed Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns, just a day before Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in the country as part of a …