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Ghana’s parliament adjourned indefinitely on Tuesday following a legal dispute over the speaker’s decision to declare four parliamentary seats vacant.
Christian rights groups have spent millions over four years in efforts to push anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQIA+ agendas
Cameroonian president Paul Biya landed on Monday at the capital Yaounde’s international airport, after several weeks out of the country amid rumours about his health, state broadcaster CRTV showed.
Egypt has become the fourth African country to eradicate malaria, a “disease that plagued pharaohs”, in what the World Health Organisation said was a significant public health milestone that took almost a hundred years to achieve.
The African Union and the European Union have condemned post-election violence in Mozambique that claimed two lives of prominent opposition figure Venâncio Mondlane’s party, Podemos.
Ivory Coast became one of sub-Saharan Africa’s top-rated sovereigns alongside Botswana and Mauritius after S&P Global raised its credit rating, giving its bonds room to narrow their extra spread over South Africa.
Human rights bodies fear that geoeconomic interests will overshadow promotion of democracy and human rights during the visit
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A South African investor in a R16 million pipeline deal seeking to connect Mozambique to Zimbabwe from Beira to Harare along the Feruka corridor has been flagged over a 2016 corruption allegation in Ghana.
Interest in dugong conservation is surging beyond Mozambique, with regional initiatives being launched to protect the sea mammals
Internet connectivity from the satellite service could change how children learn in schools.
In Tanzania, restrictions on social and mainstream media, extrajudicial killings of political activists, and arbitrary arrests have become routine ahead of local authority elections on 27 November.
United States President Joe Biden will finally make his long-awaited African trip a month after the presidential elections slated for 5 November, the White House announced on Wednesday.
Batswana living abroad, election officials, the police, and the army will cast their votes this Saturday ahead of general elections in two weeks, when all other voters will keep alive Africa’s longest-running continuous democracy.
An explosion has killed more than 140 people in northern Nigeria as crowds rushed to collect fuel spilling from a crashed tanker, officials told AFP on Wednesday.
Adverse and biased narratives about the continent inflate perceptions of risk, leading to unjustifiably high borrowing costs
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has killed almost 100 people and left 50 injured, police said on Wednesday.
African activist Kemi Seba, known for his virulent anti-Western stance, has been arrested in Paris, a source close to the case told AFP on Tuesday.
Chinese trafficking cartels are allegedly demanding up to R200 000 per head from the Kenyan government to free its citizens after they were lured to Myanmar with the promise of customer care jobs in Thailand, according to Kenya’s ambassador to Bangkok.
The hotel and its grand staircase were built in the Art Deco style in the 1950s when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal
Election observer missions deployed in Mozambique say the 10 October polls were generally peaceful, and have urged Mozambicans to remain calm as results trickle in.