Zimbabweans cast ballots on Saturday in parliamentary and local authority by-elections seen as a yardstick of what is to come in next year’s general polls.
The polls, which opened at 7:00 am, have generated so much interest that President Emmerson...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has threatened to impose financial and economic sanctions against Burkina Faso if the military government fails to set a timetable to return the country to constitutional rule.
At an extraordinary summit in...
Hundreds of striking Sibanye-Stillwater (SSWJ.J) workers blocked a major highway outside Johannesburg on Friday to press their demands for higher wages, and union leaders said they would not back down despite the gold miners no work, no pay policy.
The National Union...
Fourteen people, including seven children, have been killed with machetes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Red Cross has said, as a community leader blamed a notorious armed group for the bloody attack.
The attack took place in a...
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Sudan’s Central Reserve Police, accusing them of using excessive force against peaceful protesters demonstrating against last October’s military coup.
The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that the Central Reserve Police,...
At least one person was killed and 17 others injured in skirmishes at an opposition party rally in Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, on Sunday.
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters were attacked by a group of men armed with spears,...
China-Africa trade has bucked the global economic downward trend and analysts believe it has contributed to the African economy’s resilience in the face of COVID-19 challenges.
China has remained Africa’s largest trading partner for 12 consecutive years. According to the...
About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say.
The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses...
Sudan on Monday rejected what it described as a “unilateral step” by Ethiopia the start of electricity production from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
“Ethiopia’s decision to unilaterally begin the operation of the GERD constitutes a violation to the...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned attempts by the global community to single out African countries for the imposition of travel bans due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The President made these remarks...