HARARE - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF now commands a two-thirds majority in parliament and could amend the constitution and prolong President Emmerson Mnangagwa's control, after by-election results released Sunday.
GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories -Israel pressed its blistering Gaza assault on Saturday as fears grew over a push into a southern area teeming with displaced Palestinians and Hamas said a truce deal was not yet within reach.
LAGOS — When artists step onto the stage for the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, all except one of the nominees for the newly created Best African Music category will be Nigerians.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — Many of the biggest stars at this year's Africa Cup of Nations have been eliminated from the tournament before the quarterfinals, but the continent's reigning player of the year Victor Osimhen is still standing as he aims to lead Nigeria to the title.
DAKAR, SENEGAL— Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 25, hours before official campaigning was due to start.
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — While most teams at the Africa Cup of Nations have relied heavily on players based in Europe, South Africa stood out as the nation with an almost entirely home-based squad.
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast - In the capital of Ivory Coast, crocodiles rival as tourist attractions the city's monumental basilica of Our Lady of Peace, a replica, but even bigger, than Saint Peter's in Rome.
NAIROBI - The African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab jihadists are waging an insurgency, said Friday the second phase of a drawdown involving 3,000 troops has been completed after a four-month delay.
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzanian lawmakers on Friday approved electoral reforms despite an outcry by the main opposition Chadema party, which has vowed to protest the legislation.
GOMA — An explosive device went off Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s city of Goma wounding two people, with authorities blaming the M23 militia that operates in the country's volatile east.
NIAMEY, NIGER — French nationals will no longer be allowed to fly into Niger, airline sources said on Thursday, as the rift between Paris and Niamey deepens following last year's military coup.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopian lawmakers on Friday extended a state of emergency in the restive northern region of Amhara, where fierce fighting had erupted last year.
DAKAR - The race to become Senegal's next president looks set to kick off on Sunday with anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye behind bars, according to his aides.
WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a handful of Jewish settlers as President Joe Biden said the level of violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank had reached intolerable levels.
GEBZE, Turkey -An armed man took a group of workers hostage Thursday at a plant owned by US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble near Istanbul in protest at the war in Gaza, police said.
DAKAR, SENEGAL — Mali’s governing junta has ordered the removal of television channel France 2 from broadcasting packages for four months over a story on the security situation, according to official documents seen by AFP on Thursday.
LAGOS — When he was alive, Nigeria's influential pastor TB Joshua had tens of thousands of followers at home and from overseas who flocked to see his claims of miracle working.
CONAKRY, GUINEA — Women blocked access to central Conakry on Thursday before being joined by other demonstrators in a spontaneous and rare protest in junta-led Guinea, an AFP journalist and news websites reported.
HARARE - A leading opposition politician before he went to prison, Zimbabwe's Job Sikhala said on Thursday that after almost two years in solitary confinement he needs to consider whether he can carry on in politics.
KANO - The governor of a troubled Nigerian state has inaugurated a 2,600-strong vigilante force to combat violent criminal gangs terrorising the country's northwest.
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