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Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg said he tested positive to COVID-19, joining other top government officials in contracting the disease as the daily infection rate surpassed 100,000 for the first time amid an outbreak of the Omicron…

Ethiopia's government says it will free several prominent opposition figures as the country marks Orthodox Christmas. Speaking on Friday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the government was making the move in a bid to achieve national…

Crowds thronged the streets of Sudan's capital Khartoum and other cities on Thursday in the first of several anti-military rallies planned this month, and security forces fired tear gas to disperse the protests, footage posted on…

Twelve Rwandans including women and children have been pushed out by Burundian authorities after refusing to get the Covid jab. They spent more than five days on the Nyakarama hill in Kirundo province in northern Burundi.…

The rescue mission in Tanzania's boat accident has been called off after all persons were accounted for, according to the authorities. The total fatalities have been put at 10 and 10 survivors. All those who died have been…

China will appoint a 'special envoy' for the Horn of Africa to support efforts to overcome security challenges in the region, China's foreign minister Wang Yi said on Thursday during a news conference with his Kenyan counterpart in Mombasa.…

Morocco and China have signed an agreement aimed at greatly increasing cooperation under Beijing’s joint "Belt and Road" initiative. Under the agreement, which was sealed via video conference, Chinese companies will be…

A bill introduced in Senegalese parliament meant to toughen existing laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, people has been rejected. Gay sex is already punishable by up to five years in jail. The bill…

A Kenyan MP was on Wednesday suspended from parliament for one day for distributing sweets to colleagues during a contentious debate. Fatuma Gedi said the "sugar levels of members had gone down" after the day-long session.…

All 15 prison facilities in Liberia have this week run out of food for inmates. This has caused two prisons, including the main Monrovia Central Prison, to temporarily "shut their doors to newcomers, prison officials have…