WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday said Zimbabwean officials last month "abruptly detained and deported" U.S. Agency for International Development officials who had been in the country on an assessment mission.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four more years in the White House.
With two-term President Macky Sall now out of the presidential race, several candidates are hoping for the chance to lead the West African nation, if elected on March 24th. Olivia Chan has more on who the main contenders that could replace Sall are.
JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday said South Africa is acting "as the legal arm of Hamas" after Pretoria again petitioned the International Court of Justice to take measures against Israel — allegations dismissed by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration.
WINDHOEK — Namibian communities whose ancestors were massacred by German colonial forces and had their property seized more than a century ago are calling for fresh talks with Berlin to negotiate the return of ancestral land.
MONROVIA — Liberian President Joseph Boakai on Wednesday issued an executive order to identify and recover stolen state assets and prosecute complicit current and former officials under a crackdown on graft launched since his January inauguration.
NAIROBI — Ekuru Aukot, a Kenyan opposition leader on Wednesday said he would launch a fresh court challenge to a plan to send police officers to gang-ravaged Haiti, after the two countries signed a deal last week focused on fast-tracking the stalled deployment.
BUDUBURAM, Ghana—Sitting on a tattered mattress among the rubble of his former home, Wendell Elijah Mallobe is one of 15,000 Liberian refugees left destitute after authorities in Ghana demolished the camp where he has lived for more than 30 years.
NAIROBI — Kenyan police on Tuesday said two people died in the East African nation’s capital, Nairobi after a crash involving a training aircraft and a passenger plane.
LONDON, March 5 —Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote is planning to set up an oil trading arm, likely based in London, to help run crude and products supply for his new refinery in Nigeria, six sources familiar with the matter said.
ACCRA — Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill could lead to a loss of $3.8 billion in World Bank financing over the next five to six years if it becomes law, derailing a $3 billion IMF loan package, the finance ministry said in a document seen by Reuters on Monday.
LONDON —The Church of England has accepted a 1 billion pound target to address historical financial links to the slave trade as recommended by an oversight group led by descendants of enslaved Africans which said the initial 100 million pounds was too low.
The United States military carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Saturday, U.S. officials said, and aid agencies warned of a growing humanitarian disaster in the Palestinian enclave as Israel pressed on with its offensive.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said, in an area where people are seeking sanctuary from Israel's devastating offensive.
After Ghanaian lawmakers unanimously passed an anti-LGBT bill, one activist who fled to Germany says she fears for the safety of the friends she has had to leave behind. David Doyle of Reuters has more.
Ghanaian trans woman and activist Angel Maxine fled to Berlin before Ghana’s parliament passed an anti-LGBTQ bill. She fears for the safety of the friends she had to leave behind.
DAKAR — Senegal's President Macky Sall on Friday condemned a violent knife attack on a prominent female journalist and director of a private television station.
HARARE — Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa abandoned a trip to Victoria Falls on Friday due to an anonymous threat of attack against the nation's airports, his spokesperson said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A wave of panic swept through downtown Port-au-Prince on Thursday as violence and heavy gunfire broke out, in what a gang leader said was a demonstration against authorities.
LAGOS — A Nigerian designer is making waves in fashion with a gender-fluid clothing line, which he says is intended to challenge the notion that non-binary dressing is a Western concept and societal norms in a country where LGBTQ+ rights are restricted.
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