Burundi government will not take part in peace talks with the opposition scheduled for Wednesday, a senior official said, casting…
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The United Nations (UN) has launched a fact finding mission into new allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused four underage…
Zambia will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on August 11 under a new constitution, a government spokesman has said. President…
Theresa Ahok is in a hurry in a remote northwest corner of South Sudan. The 35-year-old is from the village of…
The President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, has threatened to fight African Union (AU) peacekeepers if they were deployed in the…
Top African police officials met in Algiers this month to ratify legal documents related to the creation of Afripol, the…
The capital of Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui is quite different to the first time I was here. Then, the…
West African nation of Guinea has been declared Ebola free after more than 2,500 people died from the virus, leaving…
Is Central African Republic (CAR) matured to hold a free and fair poll? After enduring a series of delays, this time…
The British parliament, last year, despite fierce lobbying from tobacco companies, decided that from May 2016 cigarettes would be sold…
United Nations (UN) Security Council has given its backing to Libya’s new government of national unity, a move it hopes…
A rebel leader in Burundi said on Wednesday that opposition has come together for the first time with the stated aim…
According to a report by a UK-based human rights group, Burundi’s security forces systematically killed dozens of people on December…
South Sudan recently marked the second anniversary since a brutal conflict began that has killed thousands of people and forced…
The government of Burkina Faso has issued an international arrest warrant for ousted leader Blaise Compaore in connection with the…
Not less than two people have been killed in an ambush on a passenger bus in Kenya’s northeast near the border…
Gracious Omondi invigilates the classroom. With incessant, searching eyes, he zigzags the only quarter filled, unpainted room, looking out for…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has come under renewed criticism for failing poor and developing countries in their 14-year-long battle…
The government of Niger has arrested nine military officers on suspicion of planning a coup, government officials said. The arrests,…
Somali police said several people have been killed after armed men detonated a car bomb and opened fire on a…