Tags GENERAL Talk Africa: Africa in 2017 In the wake of 2016, many Africans had high hopes for what 2017 would hold. While news on the continent
Tags GENERAL 2017 In Review: Elections in Africa Elections are markers of important democratic milestones in countries and a way of shaping countries’ democracies. A number of African
Tags GENERAL Suicide blast kills 14 in Nigeria mosque Fourteen worshippers were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, civilians told
Tags GENERAL Equatorial Guinea confirms a thwarted ‘coup’ that would have ended president’s 38-year reign The West African state of Equatorial Guinea said on Wednesday it had thwarted “a coup” in late December mounted by
Tags GENERAL Israel offers to pay African migrants to leave or risk jail Israel has offered to pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave or risk being jailed
Tags GENERAL Ethiopia to release jailed political prisoners: PM Ethiopia is set to release jailed political prisoners in a move aimed at fostering national reconciliation, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Tags GENERAL Algeria breast cancer survivors shunned as ‘half-women’ As if losing a breast to cancer was not traumatic enough, Algerian mother-of-three Linda was then spurned by her husband
Tags NEWS 5 Kenyan policemen killed by suspected al-Shabaab extremists A Kenyan official says suspected members of the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab have killed five police officers in the northern
Tags GENERAL Zambia’s foreign minister Harry Kalaba resigns Zambia’s Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba has announced his resignation from government, over President Lungu’s failure to tackle corruption. In a
Tags GENERAL Egypt to extend state of emergency for 3 months: MENA Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from Jan. 13 to help tackle “the dangers