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Following the coup deposing Burkina Faso’s President Roch Kaboré, local Bishops say the new military junta should serve the people, as the nation faces important challenges, including an Islamist insurgency. Read all
Burkina Faso this week joined a list of countries that have recently experienced military takeovers — most plagued by insecurity,
After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday.
For the first time in Africa since the peak of the Omicron wave, weekly COVID-19 cases dropped significantly and deaths dipped, the World Health Organization (WHO) informed on Thursday.
Politicians rarely set out to piss off their constituents, much less admit to doing so. So when French President Emmanuel
The social media site had been blocked after it deleted a post from President Muhammadu Buhari about secessionist groups that
After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave, which has been mainly driven by the Omicron variant, is flattening, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Supporting innovations in the food system in Rwanda is the goal of a UN-backed initiative launched in the capital, Kigali, on Wednesday.
The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down
BAMAKO — In Mali, a coalition of political parties has rejected the military government’s plan for a five-year transition