A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic after more than two months in detention, his lawyers said.Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was arrested on November 6 and ch...
ADDIS ABABA, More than 3.3 million people in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected northernmost Tigray region have received humanitarian aid since early October, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The OCHA...
NAIROBI, Kenyan police have discovered the body of prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner Edwin Chiloba stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country, according to local media sources.Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumpe...
GABORONE, Botswana’s former president Ian Khama has filed an urgent court application seeking to strike down an arrest warrant issued against him by a magistrate last week.Court papers released on Thursday showed that he asked the high court in the cap...
Children tend to bear the brunt of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Children (defined as persons below the age of 18) show higher rates of multidimensional poverty with well over half of multidimensionally poor people in SSA being children under th...
A court in Mali has sentenced 46 Ivorian troops whose detention in Mali sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries to 20 years in prison, the public prosecutor said Friday.Three female soldiers among the original group detained in July, and who...
It's been more than a year since jihadis first stormed Igor Kassah's town in northern Benin, but the priest still lives in fear. His once peaceful life is now marked by threatening phone calls and extremist diatribes tacked on church doors demanding th...
A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday handed down life terms to four Malian men convicted of abetting a jihadi attack on a beach resort that left 19 people dead.The court in Abidjan, the country's commercial hub, found the four "guilty of the deeds for w...
Addis Ababa: An international relation expert urged the African Union (AU) to successfully navigate through the challenges it faces and demonstrate its importance as a beacon of hope for African citizens. The African Union stands at a pivotal moment i...
Kiambu: A land verification and validation exercise has begun in Mwihoko Estate, Ruiru Sub-County, to authenticate land ownership and facilitate the issuance of title deeds. The five-day exercise started on January 27, 2025, and will run until January...
Kiambu: A land verification and validation exercise has begun in Mwihoko Estate, Ruiru Sub-County, to authenticate land ownership and facilitate the issuance of title deeds. The five-day exercise started on January 27, 2025, and will run until January...
The exploration company "Avion Gold", a subsidiary of the Endeavor Mining group, presented through the President of the special delegation of the municipality, Souleymane Dianda, on Friday August 18, 2023 a brand new ambulance in the health district o...
