Gabon President Ali Bongo hospitalised

President Ali Bongo of Gabon has been taken into medical care after suffering a bout of exhaustion during a trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, four days after he was hospitalised.The President's spokesman…

Ethiopan migrants drown in Indian Ocean

Seven Ethiopian migrants have drowned after a boat carrying 13 people capsized off the coast of Tanzania, Reuters news agency reports quoting the police boss in north-eastern Tanga region."Of the peo…

BREAKING: Cameroon's President Paul Biya wins re-election by a landslide

Cameroonian President Paul Biya won an emphatic election victory with 71 percent of the vote, the Constitutional Council announced on Monday, extending his 36-year rule and cementing his place as one…

Students protests at top Ghana university turns violent

Students at Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Knust) have mounted road blocks, vandalised property and boycotted lectures in protest over what they describe as unwarranted b…

Five journalists at a newspaper in the Democratic Republic of Congo were "abducted" on Friday, their managing editor said, after the publication of articles on the misappropriation of rations for pol…

Algeria orders enforcement of niqab ban

Algerian authorities on Thursday banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision.The country has been split between moderate and more …

Cameroon court rejects all petitions calling for re-run of elections

Cameroon's Constitutional Council on Friday rejected the last of 18 petitions calling for a re-run of an Oct. 7 election that the opposition said was marred by fraud, paving the way for results expec…

Flash floods in Tunisia leave five dead, two missing

Flash flooding in Tunisia has killed at least five people while a further two are unaccounted for, the interior ministry said on Thursday.Two died in the Kef region in the northwest and another in Gr…

Ethiopia's PM says soldiers who marched on palace sought to 'abort reforms'

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that soldiers who marched on his palace last week had "nefarious aims" and wanted to abort the government's reforms.In an address to parliament, …

Kenyan Olympic great Kip Keino surrenders to police in corruption case

Running great Kip Keino handed himself over to police in Kenya on Thursday and is under arrest, set to face charges of corruption and abuse of office that threaten the reputation of one of track and …

Five killed in fresh Adamawa attack

Fresh attacks have been carried out on the indigenes of Bali village in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa by suspected ethnic militia which has resulted in five deaths.A spokesperson for the Ada…

30 killed over two months in fighting in Central Africa diamond hub: UN

At least 30 civilians were killed in August and September by armed groups in and around Bria, the diamond hub of the restive Central African Republic, the UN said, adding that some of the killings co…

Madagascar secure first ever AFCON appearance

Madagascar have qualified for their first ever Africa Cup of Nations after defeating Equatorial Guinea 1-0 in Antananarivo on Tuesday to become the first team to join hosts Cameroon in next year's fi…

Ethiopia gets first female defence minister

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed the country's first female defence minister in a new cabinet in which half the posts are taken up by women.Aisha Mohammed, from the country's Afar r…

Train crash kills four in Morocco

At least four people were killed and dozens injured when a train derailed near the Moroccan capital Rabat on Tuesday, a railway official said.Another official said as many as eight might have been ki…

Family of abducted billionaire offers reward

The family of kidnapped Tanzanian dollar billionaire Mohammed Dewji says it will give a reward of a billion Tanzanian shillings ($440,000) for information leading to his rescue.Speaking for the first…

Somalia: 42 Cholera related death reported since December 2017

No fewer than 42 people have been reported killed by cholera, acute watery diarrhea (AWD), in war-torn Somalia since December 2017,The country which has also been battling hunger and malnutrition is …

Landslide in eastern Uganda leaves over 30 dead

At least 31 people were killed when a floodwaters triggered by a landslide swept debris through a town in eastern Uganda, destroying homes and burying livestock, a government official said on Friday.…

Zambia suspends officials after '$1.6m embezzled'

The Zambian government has suspended more than 80 officials from the ministry of general education after an estimated $1.6m (?1.2m) of donor funds was allegedly embezzled, reports the state-owned Zam…

Africa's youngest billionaire kidnapped in Tanzania

Africa's youngest billionaire was kidnapped on Thursday morning by gunmen in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salaam, officials said.Mohammed Dewji, 40, who heads the MeTL Group which operates in a…