Author: Gbenga Aborowa

The talks were launched on Monday, but a rebel group says it would pull out unless the government withdrew from its territories

Bongo said he was “fiercely determined” to push ahead with a campaign against graft

It will arrive in the eastern city of Goma, in North Kivu province, on October 18 and be used from the beginning of next month

The Boeing 767 aircraft had just taken off from Dakar airport en route to Addis Ababa when the pilot made an emergency landing

Police fired teargas to disperse the protests but demonstrators kept regrouping

A fourth Senegalese UN peacekeeper has died in hospital after he was injured in a combat helicopter crash

The last elections in December 2014 led to a coalition between Lepep (The People) and Jugnauth’s Socialist Militant Movement (MSM)

Observers expect voters will use the legislative poll to reinforce their choice of political outsiders in the presidential race

Egyptian authorities have freed a Sudanese student detained during a crackdown on rare rallies against President Abdel Fattah al-Sis

Two separate Al-Shabaab strikes rock Somalia