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South Africa and Russia, the 'strange bedfellows'
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with South Africa's President Cyril Ra...
Seventeen Niger troops killed in attack near Burkina...
The defence ministry added that another 20 soldiers had been wounded, six ser...
Kenya's debt rises to historic high, says treasury
The cost of debt servicing in the year ended June was 391 billion shillings (...
Zimbabwe police arrest 40 opposition members as vote...
The southern African country heads to the polls on 23 August to elect the pre...
African Union meets on Niger crisis
Those attending include AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat as well as re...
Six Niger soldiers, 10 suspected jihadists killed in...
Suspected jihadists on motorbikes ambushed the troops near the western town o...
Burkina junta suspends radio station over Niger crit...
Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday "until further notice," Com...
Zimbabwe's ruling party vows no repeat of violence a...
Zimbabweans will head to the polls on 23 August to elect the president and le...
West African bloc gathers for key summit on Niger coup
Important decisions are expected from the gathering in Nigeria's capital Abuj...
Niger coup leaders take aim at France on eve of key ...
Two weeks after a coup that toppled elected president Mohamed Bazoum, the reg...
Ethiopia troops push back Amhara fighters: residents
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government last week declared a six-month state o...
Diplomacy 'best way forward' in Niger but force stil...
Bola Tinubu, also head of the West African bloc ECOWAS, weighed in for the fi...
World Bank halts new loans to Uganda over anti-gay law
The move comes after pressure from human rights organisations and members of ...
Kenya's government, opposition begin talks after pro...
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga has organised 10 days of demonstration...
Guinea-Bissau president names PM after poll setback
The former Portuguese colony of around two million people has a chronic histo...
Niger closes airspace over 'threat of intervention' ...
The Economic Community of West African States issued its ultimatum a week ago...
