Tension erupted at the Home Affairs Refugee Reception Centre in Durban when about 15 anti-immigrant demonstrators confronted asylum seekers waiting in line. Some protesters wore masks and carried sticks or knobkerries as…
Mali’s army, supported by Russian paramilitary forces, has regained control of the northern town of Kidal after Tuareg separatists declared a “strategic…
Large hailstones battered Masvingo in southeastern Zimbabwe, damaging homes, vehicles and other property. Residents said unusually large chunks of ice struck the…
Ghana is preparing to elevate its space ambitions by converting the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI) into a fully fledged…
A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 carrying 25 passengers and seven crew members crashed into a swamp near a naval base in Igbokoda,…
A proposed constitutional overhaul could fundamentally reshape Malawi’s Vice-Presidency, including ending the automatic transfer of presidential powers to the Vice-President. Lilongwe resident…
Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his wife, Lucy Muteke, were killed last Wednesday when the Bell 430 helicopter carrying them crashed near…
When terrorists struck northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province nine years ago, the country’s Defence Armed Forces (FADM) were caught off guard, despite…
Repeated attacks in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau State have killed dozens in recent weeks, prompting residents to demand that authorities identify and apprehend…
Dafroza Gauthier, a survivor of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who spent decades helping identify suspects living in France, has died of cancer at…
Fighting between Ethiopian government forces and rebels has drawn closer to Mekelle, prompting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to temporarily pull its…
