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The 62-year-old general, Abdourahamane Tchiani is from Niger’s western region of Tillaberi, close to the border with Mali. He studied...

Kenya has been in a state of mourning since Friday (April 22, 2022) when president Uhuru Kenyatta announced the death...

Tanzania has been marking 100 years since the birth of its founding father, the late Julius Nyerere. Events have been...

Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere was awarded with the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. The announcement was made on...

The fourth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Merkorios, has passed away after several weeks of hospital treatment...

Burkina Faso's new strongman, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has had first-hand experience of the brutal militant insurgency that he cites...

By Peter Kimani* Kenya’s most celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong'o marked his 84 birthday on January 5. Having published his...

Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was...

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a controversial figure in Malian history, was born January 29, 1945, in the southern Malian city of...

By Gavin Evans* Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, who has died in hospital in the capital, Lusaka, at the age...