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The European Union donated £5 million to contribute to providing life-saving food assistance to 1.6 million people in Burkina Faso. The United Nations World Food Programme, WFP said the donation is meant for those who are unable to meet…

Kenya and Sierra Leone signed seven bilateral agreements following talks in Nairobi by delegations led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his visiting Sierra Leonean counterpart Julius Maada Bio. President Bio arrived in Nairobi on Saturday…

Sudanese authorities have released 125 political prisoners after the country's military leader lifted the state of emergency on Sunday. They were leaders of the Resistance Committees who opposed the military coup. According to the…

Cameroonian soldiers have freed a kidnapped senator of the ruling party, plus several other hostages, in an operation in the country's English-speaking North-West region. The army says Senator Elizabeth Regina Mundi was kidnapped along…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame held a phone conversation with his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Félix Tshisekedi along with the African Union chairman Macky Sall amid cross-border tensions. The Kinshasa government accuses Rwanda…

South Africa’s Gauteng health department is investigating the cause of a fire at a hospital in the capital, Pretoria that occurred in the early hours of Monday. Government said there were no patients or staff casualties from the fire…

Morocco and Sudan are investigating suspected cases of monkey pox. This comes after outbreaks of the virus have recently been found in Europe, Australia, America, and the Middle East. Africa's Health Body reports that monkey pox is…

The Gambian Government has accepted a recommendation by a truth and reconciliation commission to prosecute former president Yahya Jammeh for killings and other suspected crimes he committed while he was in office. The Country's Attorney…

Eleven newborn babies have been killed in a fire in a hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the country’s president said Senegalese President Macky Sall said in a tweet  “learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of…

South African police said they are on high alert following an incident in which three men accused of being drug dealers were burnt alive inside a house by a mob. The victims, who were aged between 22 and 36, burnt and died in the house,…