Three women were charged in Gambia over the death of a one-month-old girl who had undergone female genital mutilation, the police said, in the first such case since the country stopped short of ...

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The trial has sparked intense political debate and drawn sharp reactions from his allies and the government, reports the Eastleigh Voice. Ferdinand Kambere, a senior figure in Kabila’s now-banned PPRD ...

Uganda’s Attorney-General’s Office is working on a process to establish a new unified examining body to oversee examinations for law graduates, reports the Daily Monitor. The 55-year monopoly that the ...

South Africa's Chief Justice Mandisa Maya has announced the introduction of a sexual harassment policy for the judiciary. TimesLIVE reports that she said the policy was necessary and an urgent ...

President John Mahama has assured Nigerian nationals living in Ghana, and the Government of Nigeria, that there will be no mass deportation of Nigerians from the country, dismissing recent tensions as ...

* Ghana has opened investigations into the crash of a military helicopter that killed all eight people aboard, including the country's Defence and Environment ministers and other top officials. The ...

Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have multiplied their attacks in the past weeks, causing mass displacements ahead of the possible resumption of construction on TotalEnergies’ huge natural ...

‘If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond ...