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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader looked set on Sunday to return home from South Africa to face Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off poll despite a risk of "more violence, more…
It took two days of trekking through the bush, before navigating a crocodile-infested river and then scrambling underneath a barbed wire fence for Peter Nkomo and his family to…
Zimbabweans who have fled to South Africa marked the International Day against Torture on Tuesday by recounting their experiences at the hands of President Robert Mugabe’s…
Nigerian armed separatists holding four foreign oil workers on Sunday threatened more attacks on oil facilities, while authorities sought five Chinese telecommunications workers…
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the former military dictator better known as ”IBB” who ruled Nigeria with a rod of iron for eight years and who once dubbed himself ”the evil…
Armed men on Monday kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria’s southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the…
Liberia will celebrate its independence anniversary next week with something of a light show when Monrovia’s street lights are turned on for the first time in 15 years, officials…
Officials from the United States and African diaspora on Tuesday urged African countries to look inwards to find economic breakthroughs and much-needed investments. Florizelle…
Stressing gains in financial stability and democratisation, African heads of state meeting hundreds of foreign business leaders in Abuja, Nigeria, called on Monday for stepped-up…
African leaders, farmers and heads of international development agencies will meet in Lagos on Friday hoping to bring a new lease of life to the continent’s degraded soil and so…
The drive for peace in the devastated Sudanese region of Darfur took a tentative step nearer success on Friday with one rebel faction agreeing to sign a peace deal, although…
The United States and other international mediators battled on Thursday to strong-arm Darfur’s rebel leaders into accepting a peace deal to end three years of slaughter in their…
International mediators battled on Wednesday to save the African Union’s make-or-break bid to end Darfur’s bloody civil war after peace talks between the Khartoum government and…
Two plane crashes which killed more than 200 people, including schoolchildren, and a clampdown on opposition figures were the striking events that blighted Nigeria’s social and…
Avenging lynch mobs have seized and burnt alive more than 20 suspected kidnappers over the past month in and around the Nigerian city of Lagos where terrified residents have…
Sudan’s government on Thursday defiantly dismissed a United Nations deadline for it to disarm its proxy militia in the Darfur region, insisting it would resolve the conflict…
Just about everything about Nigeria’s mushrooming movie industry is huge, apart from its latest generation of stars; a team of dwarf actors whose small statures belie their…
While Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was basking in the international spotlight as host of the Commonwealth summit, his impoverished countrymen were angrily demanding to…
The litter-strewn streets of Africa’s largest and arguably dirtiest city woke up to a new broom on Monday, as Lagos’s latest uniformed enforcement squad launched a mammoth…
The death of Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, the elder brother of Nigeria’s Afrobeat king Fela, will likely have repercussions throughout the country’s health care system, health…
