Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Monday said his country can offer help to African countries without political conditions.

Putin’s remarks which also took a swipe at what he described as the ‘exploitative […]

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari recently called for stricter laws against sexual abuse after a documentary showed a university lecturer propositioning a reporter posing as an underage student.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have called on the central African country’s new government to prioritize two major […]

Alain Serge Dzotap has made writing for children his main focus.

This Cameroonian publisher, born in 1978 in Bafoussam, Western Cameroon and the youngest of a large family of ten, first discovered storytelling […]

Hundreds of Haitians took to the street of Port-au-Prince Sunday, piling pressure on President Jovenel Moïse to resign.

The protesters gathered in the Champ de Mars, the largest plaza in front of the National […]

The main opposition party in Togo has validated its leader, Jean Pierre Fabre as a candidate for the presidential election scheduled for early 2020.

His confirmation was held at a congress by his National […]

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday named a commission to probe a raid on a sit-in in June this year.

Security forces killed dozens near the Defence Ministry in Khartoum after repeated calls for […]

South Sudan’s main opposition leader Riek Machar said Sunday he will likely not be a part of a unity government in November.

Machar revealed this to a visiting UN Security Council delegation, thus dashing hopes […]

At least 55 elephants have starved to death in the past two months in Zimbabwe’s biggest national park as a serious drought forces animals to stray into nearby communities in search of food and water, a […]

African nations championship 2020 will have Morocco defend its title in Cameroon but it will be without the vice-champion, Nigeria. The Togolese Hawks flew higher than the Super Eagles. There were many surprises […]

Three African players have so far been named in the nomination list for the 2019 Ballon D’Or award. The French outfit that organizes the award has been releasing the list of nominees today, October 21.
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Police said on Saturday they had freed nearly 150 students from a purported school in northern Nigeria that claimed it was teaching the Koran but had instead subjected them to abuse.
It was the fourth such […]

Nearly one million voters are set to determine the fate of Botswana’s future, when they take part in the presidential, parliamentary and local elections on Wednesday.
All eyes will be on the presidency, where i […]

South Africa reaches semis
South Africa on Monday began preparations for their Yokohama semi-final against Wales, having knocked out hosts Japan.
“We want to try and go all the way,” coach Rassie Erasmus sai […]

*South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar ON Saturday arrived in Juba to try and save the fragile peace agreement as the mid-November deadline for forming a government with President Salva Kiir approaches.*

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In what was a first World Cup quarter-final for the Japanese, neither an entire nation seemingly now besotted by rugby, nor a raucous 50,000 crowd packed into Tokyo Stadium, could carry the hosts to […]

The U.N. human rights office called on Egypt on Friday to free a prominent blogger, lawyer and journalist allegedly mistreated in custody who are among nearly 2,000 people detained since street protests began a […]

A military court sentenced former Equatorial Guinea Chief of Staff Ruslan Hermes Nguema Oyana to 18 years in prison on Friday for embezzlement of public funds, the country’s military sources reported on S […]

Mozambique’s main opposition party, Renamo on Saturday accused the government of violating a recent peace agreement by using “violence” during the general elections this week and called for the election to be ca […]

The NGO Positive Youths Africa has launched a project in Cameroon to offer psychological support to victims of the anglophone crisis. Called the Afrogiveness project, organizers say victims of trauma or […]