Category: Africa

Source BBC  Burkina Faso’s military government says it has arrested eight members of a Dutch-based humanitarian organisation, accusing them of “spying and treason”.  There are

Story: News Desk Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger on Monday, September 22, announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a joint statement,

Source: BBC The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths reported

Source: BBC  Dozens of people have died in Nigeria’s northern Niger state after a boat carrying about 100 people sank in a river. The reportedly

Source: BBC  A South African court has halted plans to bury former Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a private ceremony in South Africa just as

Source: Reuters A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured several others at a fish market on Friday night in Nigeria’s

Source: Reuters Togo has suspended broadcasts of French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24 for three months, its communications authority said on Monday,

Source: BBC  Nigeria’s president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage. Along with eight other campaigners, Mr

Kenya’s independent police oversight body has launched an investigation into the death of a man who had been detained “for false publication”, police have said.

Source: BBC Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by