A top aide of Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been banned from entering the US due to “involvement in significant corruption", the US embassy in the capital, Lilongwe, has said.Uladi Mussa had "engaged in and benefited from public corruption”...
The Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has dismissed a proposal by opposition leader Martin Fayulu to set up a team to review the country's constitution to pave way for a new election.He said that it was not...
Sudan's protest leaders Wednesday agreed to hold direct talks with the country's ruling generals after African Union and Ethiopian mediators called on the two sides to resume stalled negotiations to form a new governing body.Negotiations between the two sides...
Nigeria says it will sign the pan-African trade deal, known as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, at an African Union extraordinary summit in Niger on Sunday.President Muhammadu Buhari said on Twitter that he agreed to the...
Elisha Abbo, 41, a Nigerian senator caught on CCTV assaulting an assistant in a sex-toy shop has claimed that he was retaliating after being attacked.On Tuesday PremiumTimes newspaper released a video on its website that showed the senator in a shop...
Ethiopia’s mediator in the Sudan crisis urged the military rulers and the opposition coalition to hold direct talks on Wednesday to strike a deal on handing over power to civilians.The Transitional Military Council, which has ruled Sudan since President...
An air strike late on Tuesday hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, a health official said.It is the highest publicly...
A former member of the military junta that brought Yahya Jammeh to power in The Gambia in July 1994 has been charged with murder.Yankuba Touray had refused to testify before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC), which is...
Prominent Rwandan opposition figure Victoire Ingabire has accused the government of overshadowing Independence Day celebrations in favour of Liberation Day - the day the governing Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power after ending the 100-day genocide against the Tutsi...
Unidentified gunmen have killed 16 soldiers in an attack on a military camp in western Niger, local residents and security sources said on Tuesday.The raid occurred on Monday afternoon near the town of Inates, close to the border with...
The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwanda government concludes.The...
