Madagascar’s new military ruler, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, said he will be sworn in as president on Friday, after the African Union suspended the membership of the...
He also called on the military, security forces and government administrators to remain loyal to the "republic, not the regime".
NAIROBI, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Madagascar’s top court on Tuesday invited Colonel Michael Randrianirina, an army commander who declared the military had taken power after leading...
The Nairobi conclave represents an attempt to rebuild an opposition front against his successor, President Félix Tshisekedi.
Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and...
At a meeting at an army barracks on the outskirts of the city earlier, the soldiers said they would not take action against the protestors.
Last year, Ugandan opposition figure Colonel (retired) Dr Kizza Besigye mysteriously disappeared in Nairobi only to surface four days later in a military court in Uganda,...
A Sudanese militia leader has been found guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region more than 20 years ago. Ali...
Sparked by anger against persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished Indian Ocean island, the demonstrations started on September 25 and have grown into an...
A witness who was with them at the time of the alleged abduction said four armed men, including a woman in the front seat of a...
Somali government forces were fighting on Saturday to repel al-Shabaab militants who stormed a high-security underground prison in the capital Mogadishu, a witness and the government...
With Chadema and ACT-Wazalendo out of the presidential race in mainland Tanzania, Chama Cha Ukombozi wa Umma (Chaumma), a fringe party that has benefited from the...
Kenyan activist Bob Njagi, the National Chairman of the Free Kenya Movement, has allegedly been abducted in Kampala, Uganda, alongside the movement’s Secretary General Nicholas Oyoo,...
KINSHASA, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday by a military court that...
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – Authorities in Madagascar on Thursday imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the capital, after protests over frequent power outages and water shortages turned violent,...
Ugandan opposition leader, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine, was cleared on Wednesday to stand for president, pitting him against Yoweri Museveni for a second time during a...
After seizing power in 1986, Museveni said the problem facing Africa was not its people but "leaders who want to overstay in power".
