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Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday approved the appointment of intelligence service chief Temesgen Tiruneh as deputy prime minister, replacing Demeke Mekonnen, who had served in the role for 11 years, the government said. In addition,…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has convened an emergency meeting to address pressing issues across the region. Among the key concerns are the political turmoil in Senegal and ongoing tensions with military regimes…

At least 13 Sudanese migrants have died and 27 others are missing after their boat sank off Tunisia's coast, a Tunisian official has said. Only two people on board survived, while search operations were under way for those missing, he…

One of eastern Congo’s most active rebel groups is attacking a community considered the last line of defense before the region’s largest city of Goma, fleeing residents said Wednesday, even as the rebels claimed they had no intention to…

Ghana's government has suspended plans to implement a 15% tax on power, following a public uproar that it will worsen the cost-of-living crisis. The value-added tax (VAT) was to be levied on domestic consumers of electricity. But…

A man who fled the US after allegedly killing his girlfriend has mysteriously escaped police custody in Kenya. Kelvin Kangethe, 41, was arrested last week while leaving a club in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a months-long manhunt by…

Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest. The defendants all denied the charges brought before…

Thirteen children are dieing each day of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10-month war in their country, a medical charity said on Monday. The head of the U.N. refugee…

Namibians held a candlelit vigil in the capital, Windhoek, on Monday evening to pay condolence visit to their late president, Hage Geingob. The much-respected leader, who was receiving treatment for cancer, passed away on Sunday at the age…