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Ethiopian prime minister’s hometown shows strong support ahead of polls
Campaign posters of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party line the road leading to his birth town of Beshasha...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo and Uganda report 263 confirmed Ebola cases with 43 deaths, Africa CDC says
As of May 30, 263 confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the...
Read moreDetailsSenegal president sacks PM Sonko, dissolves government after months of friction
Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government, a move that risks...
Read moreDetailsMorocco’s King pardons Senegal fans convicted on hooliganism charges
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned the Senegal supporters convicted of hooliganism during the Africa Cup of Nations soccer...
Read moreDetailsBenin’s Talon bids farewell ahead of Wadagni inauguration, Sunday
Ten years after taking office, outgoing Beninese President Patrice Talon on Thursday delivered a farewell message to the nation ahead...
Read moreDetailsNigeria busts meth cartel in largest seizure, arrests kingpin
Nigeria's anti-drug agency said it had dismantled a methamphetamine syndicate in the largest seizure of its kind in the country,...
Read moreDetailsSierra Leone receives first group of West African deportees from US
A plane transporting nine West Africans deported by the Trump administration arrived in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, part of Washington's...
Read moreDetailsIndia, Africa Union postpone New Delhi summit amid Ebola outbreak
India and the African Union (AU) have decided to postpone the India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled to be held next week...
Read moreDetailsRwanda tightens border controls over deadly Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
Rwandan authorities have intensified health screenings and tightened movement along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as a...
Read moreDetailsNigeria arrests ex-power minister Mamman after 75-year graft sentence
Nigeria's anti-graft agency has arrested former power minister Saleh Mamman, days after a court sentenced him in absentia to 75 years in...
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