Accra: Ghana's parliament has voted to outlaw the death penalty for almost all crimes, becoming the latest African country to repeal capital punishment,...
Accra: Ghana's parliament has voted to outlaw the death penalty for almost all crimes, becoming the latest African country to repeal capital punishment,...
Nigeria’s central bank defended its independence by extending its longest phase of monetary tightening to tame inflation, despite calls by President Bola Tinubu...
South Africa’s state power utility increased the amount of scheduled outages because of delays in returning generating units to services and breakdowns at...
More than a month after Nigeria’s central bank dropped the naira’s peg against the dollar, the country’s market for exchange-traded futures has ground...
Nairobi: Kenya's opposition Saturday called a fresh anti-government rally for next week to protest rising prices and taxes after three previous demonstrations largely...
Geneva: The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical charity said Friday that armed men had attacked one of its teams in the Sudanese capital...
Nairobi: Kenyans largely ignored a call by the opposition to boost anti-government protests on Thursday, although isolated clashes flared in the capital between...
Nairobi, Kenya: Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the rising cost of living, but...
Johannesburg: A body was found in centralJohannesburgearly Thursday after an unexplained blast ripped through a main road at rush hour the previous evening,...
Algiers: At least 34 people were killed when anAlgerian passenger bus collided head-on with a commercial vehicle and burst into flames in the...
Doha, Qatar: Google Doodle today celebrates the memory of Asma Hamza, the first female Sudanese oud musician and songwriter. In 17 July 1997,...
Nigeria’s central bank slashed the mandatory cash reserve requirement for merchant banks by 70% to increase their liquidity and ability to extend loans...
Wad Madani, Sudan: Air strikes pummelled Khartoum on Sunday and fighting raged in Sudan's western Darfur region, witnesses said, as a three-month war...
Nairobi: Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday said that further opposition protests against his government would not be permitted, warning his rival against...
Wad Madani, Sudan: Sudanese army representatives have returned to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for talks with their paramilitary foes, a government source said...
Dakar: Senegal's main opposition party on Friday declared its firebrand leader Ousmane Sonko would be its candidate in upcoming presidential elections, brushing aside...
Cairo: Egypt and Ethiopia agreed to begin urgent negotiations to finalize the agreement regarding the filling of the Renaissance Dam and the rules...
Nairobi: Kenya's interior ministry on Thursday said more than 300 people had been arrested over anti-government protests that left nine dead as the...
