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Some 300 demonstrators from opposition parties waved Tunisian flags and carried signs with the images of detainees at the rally organised by the main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front. Since early February, authorities…

Tunisian President Kais Saied has rejected "foreign diktats" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in stalled talks with the heavily indebted country over a bailout package. "Regarding the IMF, foreign diktats that will…

The U. S. vice president has ended her weeklong trip across Africa. Kamala Harris met with Zambia's, Tanzania's and Ghana's heads of state during her 3-leg journey. If the influence of other foreign powers loomed over her trip, she tried…

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Tanzania on Thursday and praised the country's first female leader as a "champion" of democracy. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan has been in power since 2021 and is the first female …

Botswana's former president Ian Khama has vowed to vigorously campaign to dethrone his handpicked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi, now a bitter rival whom he accuses of being a threat to democracy, in next year's elections. The 70-year-old…

Chad's interim president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, has pardoned 380 rebels from group, The Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT). They were part of a group of 400 people who were handed life sentences last Tuesday in connection with the…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says that the United States will increase investment in Africa and help spur economic growth as she began a week-long tour of the continent aimed at offering a counter to the influence of rival China.…

US Vice President, Kamala Harris, starts a week-long trip to Africa in what is being seen as the latest attempt at counterbalancing China's influence. Vice President Harris is expected to visit Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia as she focuses…

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country's former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was detained for over 10 years for war crimes, as the country's defence minister in a sweeping government…

400 rebels in Chad were handed life sentences following the death of former ruler Idriss Deby Itno, who was killed in 2021, a public prosecutor said. After a mass trial, they were sentenced for "acts of terrorism, mercenarism,…