Moroccans on Sunday mourned the victims of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people, as rescue teams raced to find survivors trapped in the rubble of flattened villages. The strongest-ever quake to hit the country has killed at least 2,012 people and injured over 2,059, many of them critically, according to the […]

  Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, an aspiring presidential candidate and head of state Macky Sall’s fiercest critic, on Saturday, ended a hunger strike he began on July 30. Sonko has faced a string of legal woes since 2021 he claims are aimed at keeping him out of politics. Sonko was arrested in late […]

  A fire that engulfed a five-storey building killed more than 60 people including children in central Johannesburg on Thursday, the South African city’s emergency services said. Another 43 were injured, some suffering from smoke inhalation, and were taken for treatment at local hospitals, Emergency Management Services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said. “The death toll is […]

  Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon on Wednesday to announce they have taken over power in the Central African country, BBC reports. They said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner. The soldiers who introduced themselves as members of the CTRI […]

  The military has announced a coup in Gabon, deposing President Ali Bongo, who was declared winner of Saturday’s election. Bongo, who came to power after the death of his father in 2009, won a third term in an election which opposition argued was heavily disputed. According to Reuters, tensions were running high amid fears […]

  Russia says 10 bodies and flight recorders have been recovered from the scene of a jet crash presumed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. “Molecular-genetic tests are now being carried out,” investigators say. The plane crashed near Moscow on Wednesday, prompting speculation that a bomb or a missile was to blame.   Claims […]

  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute to his one-time ally and Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who was killed in a plane crash Wednesday, calling the mercenary group chief “a person with a complicated fate,” multiple outlets reported. In a televised address, Putin revealed he had known Prigozhin since the 1990s. While […]

  No fewer than 10 people were said to have died in the plane crash. Russian agencies are saying the mercenary chief was on the passenger list. Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia’s army in June, was on the […]

  Emmerson Mnangagwa became Zimbabwe’s second president after outmanoeuvring long-time ruler Robert Mugabe with a military-backed coup in 2017 — and at 80 shows no signs of wanting to retire. Nicknamed “The Crocodile” because of his ruthlessness, Mnangagwa, who analysts judge more autocratic than his predecessor and lacking Mugabe’s intellectual flair and ideological vision, is […]

  Abdourahmane Tiani, Niger Republic’s self-declared head of state, says the country will return to civilian rule within three years. Tiani spoke late Saturday night in a televised address. The coup leader gave no details on the plan, saying only that the principles for the transition would be decided within 30 days at a dialogue […]