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Package similar to 2005 deal needed, as struggling African countries suffer severe funding squeeze, says officialWestern countries need to put together a debt relief and aid package to match that of the landmark Gleneagles summit deal in 2005 in order …
Three defendants accused of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old Moroccan girl have been sentenced to between 10 and 20 years behind bars on appeal, after lower sentences awarded in a lower court sparked outrage.
The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently called on Africa to “save the world from homosexuality”, suggesting he would sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by parliament last month. In Uganda and abroad, activists are mountin…
Ghana is the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine, from Oxford University, aimed at children under the age of three, who are most at risk of dying from the disease.
A Moroccan court has sharply increased the jail sentences handed down against three men convicted of “indecent assault” for the repeated rape of an 11-year-old girl in a case that sparked public outrage.
The head of the military junta has said he aims to recapture 40% of the country’s territory, as the deadly insurgency continues.
Rapist and murderer’s escape sparked outrage over competence of country’s police and criminal justice systemA fugitive rapist and murderer who left a burnt corpse in his cell during a jailbreak has returned to prison in South Africa after fleeing to Ta…
In a report presented to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Mali’s ruling junta to “accelerate” the pace of the handover, in order to return power to elected civilians by early 2024 as promised.
Dozens of mostly sub-Saharan Africans have drowned in region in recent weeks trying to reach EuropeAt least 25 people have died after a boat carrying people from sub-Saharan Africa towards Europe sank off the coast of Tunisia.Fifteen bodies were discov…
The Sudanese army said on Thursday that the mobilisation in the capital Khartoum and other cities of a paramilitary force headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo had raised the risk of confrontation.