Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nov 4, (dpa/GNA) – The largest opposition party, has accused the security forces in the East African country, of excessive…
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Tanzania’s president, sworn in for 2nd term, warns troublemakers
Dar es Salaam, Nov 4, (dpa/GNA) – Tanzania’s incumbent President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, was sworn in for a second term on Monday, despite the…
Hassan declared winner in Tanzania’s landslide presidential election
Dar es Salaam, Nov 1, (dpa/GNA) – Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan, was declared the outright winner of the presidential election by the electoral commission…
West African regional integration under the spotlight
By Desmond Davies, GNA Special Correspondent  Abuja, Oct 30, GNA – Fifty years after the creation of the Economic Community of West African States…
Doctors Without Borders ordered to leave Libya by November
Cairo, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Libyan authorities in Tripoli have ordered the aid organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), to leave the country by November…
460 people killed in maternity hospital in Sudan
Cape Town/Geneva, Oct 25, (dpa/GNA) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has expressed shock at reports that more than 460 patients…
Eight Hungarians, two Germans among 11 dead in plane crash in Kenya
Nairobi, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Eleven people have died in a plane crash in Kenya, including eight Hungarian nationals and two Germans. The Kenyan…
Sudan’s army loses the last major city in the Darfur region to RSF
Omdurman, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has taken control of the last major city in Sudan’s western Darfur region,…
Tens of thousands flee to refugee camp after Sudan’s RSF seizes city
Dakar, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Tens of thousands of people have fled from Sudan’s El Fasher to a nearby refugee camp, after the paramilitary…
UN says ‘hundreds of thousands’ trapped amid fighting in Sudan
New York, Oct 27, (dpa/GNA) – Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped amid an escalation of fighting in El Fasher, the capital of…
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara re-elected to controversial fourth term
Abidjan, Oct 27, (dpa/GNA) – Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term in office, according to results released by the country’s…
World’s oldest president, Paul Biya, re-elected in Cameroon
Yaounde, Oct 27, (dpa/GNA) – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been re-elected for an eighth term at the age of 92, the country’s Constitutional…
Houthi rebels enter UN compound in Sana’a
Cairo, Oct 19, (dpa/GNA) – Fighters from the Houthi militia in Yemen have invaded the United Nations compound in the capital Sana’a, according to…
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies aged 80
Nairobi, Oct 15, (dpa/GNA) – Longtime Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a central figure in the country’s politics for more than three decades, has…
Madagascar’s military seizes power after protests against president
Nairobi, Oct 14, (dpa/GNA) – Madagascar’s military said on Tuesday it has seized power, following weeks of protests against the fugitive president, Andry Rajoelina.…
At least 40 killed in South Africa bus crash
Cape Town, Oct 13, (dpa/GNA) – At least 40 people were killed in a bus crash in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province, authorities said…
World leaders gather in Egypt for Gaza peace summit
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct 13, (dpa/GNA) – As US President Donald Trump addressed the Knesset in Israel on Monday afternoon, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi…
Madagascan leader flees country on French plane after protests
Antananarivo, Oct 13, (dpa/GNA) – Madagascar’s President, Andry Rajoelina, has fled the country after weeks of protests, French media reported on Monday. Rajoelina was…
Madagascar gets new prime minister in effort to calm youth protests
Antananarivo, Oct 8, (dpa/GNA) – Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina, has appointed a new prime minister from the previous government’s inner circle in an effort…