South Africa holds South Sudan rebel Machar as “guest”
By Ed Cropley | JOHANNESBURG South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting, is being Read more
By Ed Cropley | JOHANNESBURG South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting, is being Read more
Military intervention in The Gambia is “possible” if President Yahya Jammeh does not step down after having lost elections, the head of the West African Read more
BANJUL: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s ruling party challenged his defeat in a Dec. 1 election at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as West African leaders Read more
By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) – Nigeria said on Tuesday Gambia’s veteran ruler seemed receptive to a message from West African leaders that he accept Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won two of the three senatorial districts in the re-run Read more
Folorunsho Alakija had her hard-earned oil block taken away by greedy politicians; she fought tooth-and-nail to get it back. The article below tells her story, Read more
On the eve of the 3rd anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s passing, the eagerly-awaited Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital was unveiled. The state-of-the-art hospital is the result Read more
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a mission to Gambia on Tuesday to mediate in a crisis brought on by long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh’s Read more
By Tiamiyu Arobani President Muhammadu Buhari, his Liberian and Ghanian counterparts, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and John Mahama, will on Tuesday, leave for Banjul to put diplomatic Read more
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss the refusal by Gambia’s ruling President Yahya Jammeh to step Read more
By Ahmed Mohammed Hassan and Ali Abdelaty | CAIRO A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many Read more
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh, who initially accepted his defeat in a Dec. 1 election before making a dramatic about-face, will challenge the Read more
A vehicle carrying fuel has collided with several vehicles on a Kenyan highway, killing at least 33 people and injuring scores of others in a Read more
The African Union is calling on Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to accept the results of the presidential election earlier this month as he said he Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo, on his historic win of the December 7 Ghana Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — As a girl, Tracy Reese thought she might be an architect. Then she caught the fashion bug. She knew, of course, Read more
BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia’s President Elect Adama Barrow said that the country’s outgoing leader Yahya Jammeh had no constitutional authority to reject the results of Read more
By Emma Farge | DAKAR – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday he rejects the outcome of last week’s election that he lost to opposition Read more
By Tom Gardner ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As many as 3.5 million people in Africa were uprooted from their homes in 2015 due Read more
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Mahama said on Friday he aimed to “make the country proud” regardless of the final outcome of Wednesday’s election, Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s rand weakened against the dollar early on Friday, extending losses from the previous session after weak domestic economic data and Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Sibanye Gold will pay $2.2 billion for U.S.-based Stillwater Mining, Sibanye said on Friday, extending its push into platinum group Read more
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s main opposition leader is heading to victory in a presidential election with an absolute majority over President John Mahama, private Joy Read more
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s economy has stagnated this year while its budget deficit has exploded, the government said on Thursday, adding to Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African court on Thursday denied bail to two white men charged with assault and kidnapping after a video showed them Read more
By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s in a “silent extinction” driven by Read more
By Sylvain Andzongo YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Police in Cameroon shot dead four anti-government demonstrators in one of the Central African nation’s minority anglophone regions on Read more
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday he was “quietly confident” he had defeated President John Mahama in a Dec. Read more
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s electoral commission spokeman said the agency would start releasing results on Thursday from a presidential and parliamentary vote held the day Read more
By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) – An alleged senior commander in the infamous Lord’s Resistance Army was notorious among his fellow soldiers for enslaving Read more
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