Residents of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, have reported renewed clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It comes despite US sanctions imposed following…
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Tensions remained high in Senegal on Saturday, after new overnight clashes raised the death toll to 15 in the two days since an opposition leader, Ousmane…
The Senegalese presidential coalition has accused the opposition of “destabilizing the country” following riots over the sentence of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko to two years in…
According to Mozambique’s justice minister, prison guards who assist inmates in obtaining drugs and other prohibited substances are “worse than the criminals” themselves. “Alcohol, cigarettes, mobile…
Following the announcement that fuel subsidies would be phased out in neighboring Nigeria, petrol prices in Benin nearly doubled. Nigeria is one of Africa’s oil behemoths,…
Former Auditor General Daniel Yao Domelevo has spoken out after the Supreme Court ruled that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s instruction for him to go on…
According to Reuters, the Gambia has hired a US law firm to investigate legal action after a government-funded inquiry determined that tainted medicine supplied from India…
Tanzania has declared the Marburg virus outbreak to be over. In March, the presence of haemorrhagic fever was initially established in the northwestern Kagera region. There…
Angola has denied that it is eliminating fuel subsidies due to International Monetary Fund (IMF) pressure. According to Finance Minister Vera Daves, the withdrawal of fuel…
The Zambian government has denied allegations that women are prevented from carrying handbags to state occasions. This follows a complaint about “gender-insensitive security measures” at a…