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Tanzania’s main opposition party faces election ban after leader is charged…
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania's main opposition party faces exclusion from general elections set for…
Is Ethiopia at war again? A look at the rebellion in one of its most powerful…
A loose collection of rebel groups is challenging Ethiopia’s military in one of the country’s most populous and…
Death toll from flooding in Congo’s capital reaches 33 as officials race to…
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of…
Uganda president holds talks with South Sudanese leaders to try to avoid civil war
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was expected to meet South Sudanese officials on the…
2 killed as Sudan’s paramilitary intensifies attacks on displacement camp in…
CAIRO (AP) — At least two people were killed in attacks by Sudan's paramilitary forces on a famine-stricken camp in…
Guinea’s former dictator pardoned over the 2009 stadium massacre
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea's ruling junta has pardoned the country's former dictator, Moussa “Dadis” Camara, who…
Zimbabwe mourns veteran journalist and critic who challenged state media hegemony
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe is mourning Geoffrey Nyarota, one of the country’s most prominent journalists best…
South Africa president says persecution of whites a ‘false narrative’…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a…
Rwanda-backed rebels push into a mineral-rich town in Congo despite ceasefire…
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels battling Congo’s army captured another strategic town in the country's…
