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Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the…

More than a dozen heads of state of African countries are due to attend the first African Climate Summit as the continent seeks to assert a stronger voice on a global existential problem that it contributes the least to. Kenyan President…

As the African Union celebrates its 60th anniversary, delegates from across the continent gathered in Addis Ababa for the opening ceremony to mark the occasion.  Moussa Faki Mahamat, former Chadian Prime Minister and Chairperson of the…

The trial of 6 Chadian opposition leaders set to start Monday in the capital will finally take place 300 km away in the city of Moussoro. If the leaders were jailed for disturbing public order during a demonstration which French-owned…

Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a central figure of the 2011 "revolution" and Egypt's most famous political prisoner, has been on hunger strike since Saturday to protest his detention, his mother Laila Soueif said. "He refuses to eat because his…

After five years and several false starts, the Dakar Regional Express Train was on Monday 27th December opened to passengers. The first train took off at 14 15 for the inaugural trip between Darkar and Diaminiado. Though it had been…