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Zimbabwe faces defining constitutional moment as Mnangagwa eyes extended rule

Zimbabwe has entered what many observers believe could become one of the most consequential political moments in its post-independence history after the government formally...

Tunisia’s main opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi jailed for life in controversial terror case

Tunisia’s main opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been sentenced to life in prison over controversial ‘terrorism-related’ charges. The ruling was issued on Monday against the...

Ethiopia heads to polls amid Tigray tensions and regional power struggles

Ethiopia heads to the polls at a moment of deep regional uncertainty, with unresolved tensions from the Tigray war, growing mistrust with Eritrea, and...

World Health Organisation chief warns countries against travel restrictions due to Ebola

Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged countries, which have imposed travel restrictions and closed their borders following...

Ghana’s parliament passes law criminalising LGBTQ promotion

Ghana’s parliament has passed a bill that would criminalise the promotion, sponsorship and funding of LGBTQ-related activities, further tightening the country’s laws on same-sex...

Senegal’s power struggle tests West Africa’s ‘model democracy’

Senegal, long regarded as one of Africa’s most stable democracies, is facing growing tensions at the highest levels of government. Just over two years...

Mozambique’s Muslim North: Gas wealth, state failure and a conflict with no end in sight

Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province has become the centre of one of southern Africa’s most devastating conflicts, where state neglect, political grievances, corruption, economic...

The First Hijrah: How Africa protected Islam in its most vulnerable hour

Around eight years before Madinah became the centre of the first Muslim polity, Islam’s first sanctuary was found across the Red Sea in Africa,...

Mali army drone strike kills 10 civilians as security crisis deepens

A Malian army drone strike has reportedly killed at least 10 civilians who were preparing for a wedding in the central San region, as...

Locals attack Ebola treatment centre, burn shelter in eastern Congo

Angry protesters attacked and torched tents at an Ebola treatment center in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province on Thursday, in an...

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