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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed has former opposition leader John Steenhuisen as minister of agriculture on Sunday, bringing the Democratic Alliance and other parties into his new coalition cabinet. Ramaphosa's African…

Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalised late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the government said. It wasn’t immediately known why Conille was hospitalised.…

Chadian opposition leader says he has filed an appeal with the country’s constitutional council to challenge the preliminary results of the 6th May presidential election. In social media posts Sunday, Succès Masra shared a copy of a…

France commemorated victory over the Nazis, while Algeria remembered a darker event from its past. Both events occurred on 8th May, 1945. French President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the Arc de Triomphe to honour those who fought in…

A French court has handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity. The crimes were found to have happened between 1993 and 1994 during…

Senegalese lined up to vote Sunday in a tightly contested presidential race that followed months of uncertainty and unrest that has tested the West African nation’s reputation as a stable democracy in a region that has experienced a wave of…

An Opposition leader in Chad Yaya Dillo has been killed in a clash with security forces in Chad, officials report. Dillo was accused by the government of involvement in a deadly attack on the country's security agency, which he denied.…

Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi went on hunger strike in solidarity with other anti-government figures waging a protest fast. The imprisoned Ghannouchi, a fierce critic of President Kais Saied and head of the Ennahda main…

The leader of South Africa's third largest political party has addressed a packed 56,000-capacity Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. Julius Malema who launched the EFF's election manifesto renewed his commitment towards the…

Just over two years at the helm of the Citizens Coalition for Change, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa announced on that he was leaving the opposition party. "I inform you, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do…