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Sudan’s Prime Minister has written to the African Union, the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States to formally request their mediation on the Nile water being used to fill Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Sudanese…

Senegalese President Macky Sall declared Thursday a day of national mourning in memory of those killed in recent unrest sparked by the arrest of a rival politician accused of rape. Sall also announced in a statement on Wednesday that a…

The United States on Wednesday blacklisted two Islamist extremist groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique as foreign terrorist organizations over accusations of links to Islamic State (ISIS). The Allied Democratic…

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in Freiburg, South-Western Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former…

Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara strengthened his grip on a third term in office after the ruling RHDP party retained its parliamentary majority in Saturday’s legislative elections. According to a tally provided by the electoral…

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has granted amnesty to 5,255 prisoners, a presidential decree dated March 5 2021 was made public on Monday. It grants amnesty to “prisoners definitively sentenced to less than or equal to five…

Mahamadou Issoufou, the outgoing President of Niger after having served two terms in office, on Monday won the Mo Ibrahim Prize, Africa’s top award for leadership. “I consider this award an encouragement to continue to think and act in…

Senegalese President Macky Sall has broken his silence over the series of protests witnessed in the country for days over the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. The president called for calm and serenity in the country, saying,…

Pope Francis entered a narrow alleyway in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to hold a historic meeting with the county’s top Shi’ite cleric, and visited the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham on Saturday to condemn violence in the name of God as…

Thai police warn anti-government protesters planning demonstrations in Bangkok on Saturday that they risked being arrested following an order overnight that banned public gatherings in the capital and surrounding provinces. A youth-led…