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leader of the opposition party Les Socialistes Congolais and a candidate, Lassy Mbouity, in Congo’s March 2026 presidential election, was abducted in Brazzaville by armed and masked men just days after surviving an assassination attempt.…

Unidentified attackers raided cattle camps in a south-eastern area of South Sudan last week, killing at least 35 people and wounding 46, a community leader said. Cattle raiding linked to competition for scarce resources is one of the…

Nigerian Afrobeats Star Timaya has named Rema as the frontrunner of the new generation of Nigerian musicians. In a recent interview with Cool FM, the 'Dem Mama' hitmaker shared his admiration for Rema, calling him an "intentional"…

French President Emmanuel Macron embarked on a twelve-hour visit to Lebanon, just eight days after Michel Aoun was elected as a president, ending a two-year political deadlock caused by power struggles and divisions. The French…

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, sparked controversy by attending the inauguration of Ghana’s new president, John Mahama, on Tuesday with a holstered pistol visibly strapped to his waist. The unusual move, seen by…

The Mozambique opposition leader who has been heading more than two months of deadly protests against disputed election results from outside the country announced that he would return this week ahead of the inauguration of the new…

Sudan's Sovereign Council leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has declared that a return to the pre-conflict status with the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is off the table. Speaking on the country's 69th independence anniversary,…

A Sudanese man accused of ordering thousands of pro-government Janjaweed militia to carry out atrocities including murder and rape in Sudan's Darfur region told judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday that they had the wrong…

A Ugandan army court on Tuesday further remanded opposition leader Kizza Besigye to prison until next January. Besigye's defense team had requested a short adjournment but the court martial head sided with the state which demanded a long…

Freeman Mbowe, the leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema, has been released on bail after being arrested, just days before local elections set for November 27th. Chadema announced the release on Saturday via the social media…