Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map towards building a functional national...
The presidential bid of 35-year-old Diane Shima Rwigara was tested after she declared her intention to contest in Rwanda’s August general elections as the...
Tanzania has shut down one of the country's largest banking institutions, FBME, following charges of aiding the finance of terrorism by US authorities.
A statement from the central bank said it had revoked its licence.
It was accused in the US of, among other things, money laundering and facilitating the payment of thousands of dollars from a financier of the Lebanese Hezbollah Islamist militants.
Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base northwest of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing several government soldiers, officials and the militants...
More than one million children have fled South Sudan because of escalating conflict, the United Nations says.
A similar number of children are also displaced...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
