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President of Kenya, William Ruto, addressed a joint sitting of Parliament, with members of both the Senate and the National Assembly convening for the address. Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula and his Senate counterpart…

Senegal President Macky Sall appoints new prime minister a position he abolished in 2019 and reinstated last year, after July's tense legislative elections. A presidential decree named Amadou Ba, a former foreign minister, as the new…

Kenya newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the government's agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030. "In our country, women…

Renewed conflict in the north, crippling drought and stubbornly high inflation: Ethiopians rang in their new year with little to celebrate. At a livestock market in the capital Addis Ababa, traders and visitors alike bemoaned the various…

Burundi officially has appointed new Prime Minister, General Gervais Ndirakobuca was unanimously confirmed in his new position by Burundian lawmakers Wednesday. The 113 MPs approved the proposal of president Evariste Ndayishimiye who…

A committee set up by President Archange Touadéra, to draft a new constitution has been created in the Central African Republic, a country that has been in civil war for nine years, according to a decree signed by the President. The…

The Commonwealth has admitted Gabon and Togo as its 55th and 56th members respectively. Both countries are former French colonies. The Commonwealth leaders accepted applications by the two West African countries at the closing session of…

Somalian newly-elected president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, used his inauguration speech on Thursday to appeal to the diaspora and international community to help stave off the famine that threatens his drought-stricken country. Aid…

South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. The new increase in COVID cases is coming as the country enters the Southern Hemisphere's colder winter months,…

A new case of Ebola haemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in the north-western Democratic Republic of Congo. The case was detected in a 31-year-old male in Mbandaka city, the capital of Congo’s Equateur province. The World Health…