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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has approved a law which allows low-income earners to secure loans from banks using livestock, crops and household appliances such as Read more
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman has hit back at critics who accuse him of falling asleep at public events, saying the 93 year old is Read more
A Ugandan academic was released on bail on Wednesday after spending more than a month in jail on charges related to posts she made on Read more
The Nigerian Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has charged the ECOWAS Parliament to prove itself as an effective instrument to foster regional integration and development. Read more
Medical samples from four of the victims of a disease in Liberia that initially baffled scientists have tested positive for a type of meningitis, the Read more
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, the government said in a statement, about two months after his previous Read more
Armed South African wildlife rangers and police scoured farmland around a small town near the Mozambican border on Tuesday for five lions that escaped from Read more
MOGADISHU – Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base northwest of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing several government soldiers, officials and the militants Read more
KAMPALA — In Uganda, the case of a university lecturer jailed last month for allegedly insulting the president on Facebook has revived concern over what civil Read more
The new Confederation of African Football (Caf) President, Ahmad, says he has refused to accept a salary from African football’s governing body. His election in Read more
War and famine have forced more than 2 million children in South Sudan to flee their homes, creating the most worrying refugee crisis in the Read more
The Somali government says the leader of al-Shabab in the Lower Shabelle region and three of his associates have been killed in a raid in Read more
A Frenchman who was kidnapped in Chad in March and taken to the Darfur area of Sudan has been rescued in a raid organised by Read more
WASHINGTON — Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia have beheaded two government soldiers they captured on Saturday near the town of Mahaday, 35 kilometers north of Jowhar, and Read more
Tanzania was plunged into deep mourning today after 29 pupils, two teachers and a driver died in a bus crash in the northern part of Read more
A member of the US military has been killed in Somalia, the first confirmed US combat death there since the 1993 disastrous Black Hawk Down Read more
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — President Jacob Zuma has five days to explain himself to a court — and by extension, to his country — over Read more
Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has suspended the salaries of about 26,000 public sector workers. It is part of a drive to clean up government payrolls Read more
Results from Thursday’s legislative elections in Algeria show that the governing National Liberation Front (FLN) and its allies have won a majority of the seats. Read more
South Sudan’s government has increased registration fees nearly six-fold for international aid groups seeking to operate in the war-torn nation, an official told Reuters. Two Read more
Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has said. He denied that the country was a fragile Read more
A Somali government minister was shot dead Wednesday near the country’s presidential palace in Mogadishu. The minister of public works and reconstruction, Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Read more
South Africa’s Cosatu labour federation abruptly canceled speeches at a May Day rally on Monday including an expected address by President Jacob Zuma after the Read more
France has killed more than 20 militants hiding in a forest near the border between the West African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso this Read more
Mali’s National Assembly has voted to extend a state of emergency by six months in a bid to quell an upsurge in attacks by Islamist Read more
Pope Francis warned against religious fanaticism on Saturday, wrapping up a brief trip to Cairo where he urged Muslim leaders to unite against violence by Read more
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma has signed the anti-money laundering bill FICA, which allows increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of “prominent individuals”, including Read more
Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali has called for a greater military cooperation between Nigeria and Sudan particularly in the area of procurement and production Read more
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report Read more
Nine people have died and eight are sick in Liberia after attending the funeral of a religious leader, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Read more
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