Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, candidate for the presidential elections of 2024 and threatened with ineligibility, launches a new challenge to the power by announcing his next return to Dakar at the head of a popular convoy through the cou...
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Many African countries have refused to take sides in the European conflict, with several abstaining from votes at the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia’s invasion. Ethiopia is one of them.
Turner died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager
The report said an estimated 50 million people were "living in situations of modern slavery" in 2021, an increase of 10 million over 2016, when the problem was last measured.
Highly popular among young people, Sonko has branded the trial a political plot aimed at scuttling his bid for the 2024 presidency. The complainant maintained her accusations, saying she had been abused five times by the PASTEF party leader.
Kenya's economy is burdened by a debt of $70bn (about €65bn) and a sharp devaluation of its currency, the shilling, against the dollar.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday made another formal referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure the court will focus on the alleged systematic pillaging of its natural resources in the country’s east by the Rwanda Defen...
The United Nations is appealing for a full $7 billion in funding ahead of the upcoming UN Horn of Africa Pledging Conference scheduled to start later this week.
Tabbou was one of the most-recognisable faces during unprecedented mass rallies, led by the Hirak pro-democracy movement, that began in February 2019.
A man died in Namibia of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, known as Congo fever, a viral disease that is transmitted by ticks, we learned on Wednesday from the Ministry of Health.
