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Congolese political and civil society leaders Saturday announced an alliance to rally against constitutional changes they are meant to ensure President Felix Tshisekedi keeps power indefinitely. Named 'National Awakening', the…

Known as Buz Stop Boys, a group of mostly young professionals and tradespeople are driving a new wave of civic responsibility in Ghana, picking up brooms and shovels to clean up the mounds of rubbish that are an eyesore in cities and towns…

The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius will hold a national election Sunday, where Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth seeks to win a second term as leader of a nation often praised as one of Africa's success stories. …

At least 3 people were killed Thursday in Mozambique's capital following clashes with the police. Maputo's largest hospital made the announcement on Friday (Nov. 08), it added that 66 people had been injured. Independent candidate…

In the 10 years since Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art opened its doors in Morocco, the venue has featured artwork by some of the world's most renowned artists. It has become a landmark of the Moroccan capital Rabat over…

South Africa's radical opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), appears to be on a downward spiral after another high-profile member defected to ex-President Jacob Zuma's party. Dali Mpofu, an advocate and former…

Botswana’s new president has told reporter that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalised by granting them temporary work and residence permits. "They do jobs that would otherwise not get done," Duma Boko told reporter before his…

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to…

UK foreign secretary David Lammy has signed bilateral agreements in Cape Town with his South African counterpart. The talks he held with Ronald Lamola were aimed at bolstering the relationship between the two nations, which have agreed…

A court in Kenyan has sentenced two men to 35 years each for the murder of Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat at the end of last year. The Olympic steeplechaser was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve in the town of Eldoret,…