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Death toll from Kenyan floods rises to 108, police say
Weeks of heavy rains and flooding have now killed 108 people in Kenya, the National Police Service said on Saturday...
Read moreDetailsECOWAS appoints veteran diplomat to mediate with Sahel States
Lansana Kouyaté, a former Guinean prime minister, has been tasked with re-establishing dialogue with Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso after...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa: 12 police officers charged with corruption appear in court
South African anti-graft investigators have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday. The...
Read moreDetailsSenegal federation vows ‘crusade’ against decision to strip country’s African Cup title in landmark case in front of Court of Arbitration for Sport
The head of Senegal's soccer governing body vowed on Thursday to mount a “crusade” against a decision by the Confederation...
Read moreDetailsTrade ministers meet in Cameroon for critical WTO reform talks amid deep divisions
Trade ministers will meet in Cameroon on Thursday for crucial discussions on reforming the World Trade Organization, as some diplomats...
Read moreDetailsUN adopts Ghana’s slavery resolution, defying resistance from US, Europe
A resolution proposed by Ghana at the United Nations on Wednesday to recognise transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity" and calling for...
Read moreDetailsToumba Diakité, principal figure in 2009 massacre in Guinea, has died
One of the principal figures convicted in an infamous 2009 stadium massacre in Guinea died in custody Wednesday in the...
Read moreDetailsSenegal denies secret €650M borrowing allegations
Debt-laden Senegal has denied a report in the Financial Times that it covertly borrowed 650 million euros ($754 million) to...
Read moreDetailsGhana’s president, in New York, says US is ‘normalizing’ the erasure of Black history
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, speaking in New York on Tuesday, criticized the U.S. administration for what he described as...
Read moreDetailsTaiwan skips WTO meeting after Cameroon labels it ‘Province of China’
Taiwan has announced it will for the first time skip a major World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting after a...
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