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Forty-six Ivorian soldiers recently pardoned by Mali's junta flew home to Ivory Coast's Abidjan airport after around six months in captivity. Their return signals the apparent resolution of a diplomatic standoff between the West African…

A Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic is “extremely strained” after a two-week hunger strike he launched in protest of his detention, his lawyer said. Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was…

The Tunisian electoral authority has announced that turnout for parliamentary elections stood at only 8,8%. Despite the low turnout, the lowest in any poll since the revolution in 2011, the president of the electoral authority described…

Senegalese authorities were searching for two male opposition lawmakers after they assaulted a female MP during a brawl in parliament last week. MP Massata Samb slapped Amy Ndiaye and she received a kick to her stomach from Mamadou Niang…

Fighting with heavy weapons resumed in eastern DRC between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army, after five days of a truce following the decisions of the Luanda summit on November 23. This summit had decided on a ceasefire from Friday…

Ethiopia commemorated the two-year anniversary since the outbreak of war in Tigray during a ceremony in Addis Ababa, the morning after the warring parties agreed to a breakthrough deal for a cessation of hostilities. The warring sides in…

Angolan President Joao Lourenço delivered his first speech before the National Assembly since his re-election admitting to devoting all his strength and attention to the search for the best conditions for the population. The speech comes…

Chad's prime minister resigned on Tuesday, the day after General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno announced the appointment of a "government of national unity", N'Djamena said, after extending his two-year term as president for a period of…

Lesotho's villagers from the rural area of Thaba Bosiu (western Lesotho) hope the country will usher into a new era following 7th October general elections. The southern African kingdom has been governed for the past decade by…

The military captain who claims to have taken power from Burkina Faso's interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba held a parade in the capital Ouagadougou on Sunday. But in a TV message after attacks on the French embassy, supporters…