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Cameroonian President Paul Biya has welcomed Gabon's transitional president Brice Oligui Nguema to Yaounde for a short state visit. The Cameroonian leader is the latest to receive Oligui Nguema who is on a tour of central African states…

Nine months after disturbing the state of the nation address in South Africa, 6 members of parliament including EFF leader Julius Malema were slapped with heavy sanctions by Parliament, including the docking of a month's salary. The…

Imprisoned Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, whose bid for the 2024 presidential election is in doubt, has ended the hunger strike he has been on since mid-October, announced two of his party officials who visited him in prison.…

Opposition leader, Moise Katumbi, officially launched his campaign for president of the Democratic Republic of Congo at a rally in Kisangani, one month ahead of the election. The 58-year-old millionaire businessman has promised to fight…

The Kenyan preacher at the centre of a doomsday cult that led to the deaths of more than 400 people, Paul Mackenzie, was found guilty, but not of their killings. The senior resident magistrate in the town of Malindi, Olga Onalo, instead…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he held an impromptu meeting in Ireland's Shannon airport with the head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and that they discussed Russia-funded armed groups.…

Thousands gathered in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, on Sunday as opposition leader Joseph Boakai officially launched his campaign in anticipation of the upcoming October elections. These elections are poised to serve as a litmus test for…

Thousands of people, some dressed in traditional warrior clothes, attended the funeral of South Africa's divisive Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who was implicated in a wave of deadly violence that marked the country's emergence from…

Gabon new military leader was sworn in as the head of state Monday less than a week after ousting the president whose family had ruled the Central African nation for more than five decades. General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, took the…

Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed victory in the country's election after challenging official results that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa winning a second term in office. "It is clear that we are rejecting the…