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Burkina Faso's junta-led government has halted one of the country's most popular radio stations after it aired an interview that was deemed "insulting" to Niger's new military officials. Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday…

It was a funeral no one had envisaged: Sadig Abbas’ lifeless body was lowered hastily into a shallow unmarked grave in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, not long after dawn. Even the few family members and neighbours who could attend were…

A senior US diplomat says Niger's junta has told him it will kill ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring countries attempt a military intervention to restore his power, two Western officials told The Associated Press. They spoke…

According to accounts from the Amhara region residents, calmness returned in Ethiopia on Thursday, the day after the announcement of the "liberation" of several prominent cities. This came after several days of clashes involving the federal…

Israel has announced it's evacuated in a special flight over 200 of its citizens and Ethiopian Jews from two cities in the Amhara and Oromia regions affected by recent violence and moved them to the country’s capital Addis Ababa. Amhara…

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been spared from returning to prison, with officials saying this to ease overcrowding. Zuma, who was sentenced to 15 months for contempt of court, surrendered himself to the authorities on…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday voiced support for efforts of the West African bloc ECOWAS on Niger without explicitly backing its call at a summit for military intervention. The United States has in recent days…

The president of the Central African Republic said his country wanted good relations with France, in an interview that followed years of tension fuelled by the CAR's rapprochement with Russia. "We are not against France," President…

A Romanian security personel who was kidnapped from a manganese mining project in Burkina Faso in 2015 has been released and safely returned to Romania, the foreign ministry stated this on Wednesday. Iulian Ghergut was 39 years when he…

There is still room for mediation efforts in Niger", declared European commission spokesman Peter Stano during a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday. Even though, efforts by ECOWAS and the United States to parlay with Niger's new…