Africa

The Malawi government on Saturday revoked the diplomatic status of eight recalled diplomats who had refused to leave the United States in a stand-off over the shipping home of their personal effects. „We have revoked […]

The hero of „Hotel Rwanda“ failed to appear in a Kigali court on Monday as State prosecutors sought to increase his sentence on terrorism charges from 25 years to life. A judge adjourned proceedings until […]

A Rwandan court ruled on Tuesday that an appeal by prosecutors in a case involving Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie ‚Hotel Rwanda‘ sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide, could proceed […]

Two people have died and two others were injured in a collapse at French nuclear group Orano’s Cominak uranium mine in Niger, Cominak said in a statement on Sunday. The cause of Saturday’s collapse was […]

Sudanese security forces have killed at least three protesters during rallies against last year’s military coup, medics and an activist have said, before a visit by US diplomats seeking to revive a transition to civilian […]

The ousted President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, has died aged 76, family and former colleagues say. Two years ago he suffered a minor stroke but the cause of his death on Sunday was not […]

Brazzaville, 13 January 2022 – After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded […]

Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight (23:00 GMT) onward after the social media platform pledged to open a local office, among other agreements made with authorities in the West African country, a […]