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President Félix Tshisekedi at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow.DR Congo

Tshisekedi enacts referendum law as opposition warns of third-term bid

2 hours ago
Photographs of victims at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre.Rwanda

Rwandan genocide suspect Jean Leonard Teganya deported from the United States

10 November 2026
Biram Dah Abeid addresses supporters in Nouakchott in 2024.Mauritania

Mauritania: anti-slavery campaigner Biram Dah Abeid resigns from parliament

10 November 2026
Moïse Katumbi, Congolese opposition leader.DR Congo

Moïse Katumbi: "We will go to Goma to meet Joseph Kabila"

9 November 2026
President John Dramani Mahama speaking in Accra, July 2026.Ghana

Mahama: reparations for the slave trade are not limited to cash payments

9 November 2026
Tundu Lissu arrives at the High Court in Dar es Salaam, 6 November 2026.Tanzania

Tanzania: Tundu Lissu cleared of treason but jailed for four years for incitement

6 November 2026
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud at the UN General Assembly, 24 September 2026.Somalia

Somalia's Supreme Court declares President Mohamud's term extension unlawful

5 November 2026
Public hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.Kenya

Kenya's Phoebe Okowa elected to the International Court of Justice

4 November 2026
Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine at the UN General Assembly, September 2026.Niger

Niger signs cooperation agreement with eastern Libya's Haftar

4 November 2026
A Sahrawi refugee at the Boujdour camp near Tindouf, Algeria.Western Sahara

UN mission in Western Sahara ends after 35 years

2 November 2026
Somaliland's ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Hag, arrives in Jerusalem, May 2026.Somaliland

Israel's first ambassador presents credentials in Somaliland

2 November 2026

JUST IN

11 November 2026
  1. 15:01Helen Zille refuses to drop Johannesburg mayoral bid as coalition talks open
  2. 15:01Algerian court sentences Kamel Daoud and his wife to five years in absentia over Houris
  3. 13:16Tshisekedi enacts referendum law as opposition warns of third-term bid
  4. 13:00Dangote ready to invest heavily in Nigeria's upstream oil sector
  5. 12:00US signals it cannot afford to lose South Africa despite AGOA and G20 exclusions
  6. 11:36Ethiopia's coffee export earnings rise 15 per cent to $878.5 million
  7. 11:30Nigerians hit by worsening blackouts as El Niño reduces hydropower
  8. 11:19Ghana moves to clear decades of toxic waste at Agbogbloshie
  9. 10:58Olympic champion Tatjana Smith to represent the Netherlands
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