Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, the first major protest against the leadership of President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. No to insecurity, terrorism, to corruption, to unemployment, chanted the protesters in the first such march organised by the opposition since the electi ...

Prime Minister Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini of eSwatini, formerly known as Swaziland, has died at the age of 76, the national television announced late Saturday. The cause of Dlamini's death in a clinic in Manzini, in the middle of the tiny country, was not given. It came a week after largely symbolic legislative elections were held in the landl ...

Penalty shootout heroics from Dutch goalkeeper Peter Leeuwenburgh ensured UEFA Champions League winner Benni McCarthy won his first South African trophy as a coach Saturday. McCarthy's Cape Town City dominated Supersports in an MTN8 final in Indian Ocean city Durban that ended 0-0 after extra time. Leeuwenburgh then saved two shootout kicks t ...

The United Nations has invited Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front to talks in December on ending their decades-old conflict over Western Sahara, diplomats said Saturday. UN envoy Horst Koehler, a former president of Germany and ex-director of the International Monetary Fund, has invited the two sides along with Algeria and Mauritani ...

Eritrea's foreign minister on Saturday called for sanctions against his country to be lifted as a result of the peace deal with Ethiopia and demanded compensation for the economic hardship. Two months after the peace deal was signed, the UN Security Council has not moved to lift the arms embargo and targeted sanctions imposed on Eritrea in 2009 ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 28, 2018 (ECA) ndash; The Sixth Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa-VI) begins in Addis Ababa Monday under the theme; Enhancing National Statistical System capacity to support policies for Africa rsquo;s economic diversification and industrialization. African Centre for Statistics (ACS) Dire ...

By Kester Kenn Klomegah, GNA 39;s Moscow Bureau Chief MOSCOW, Russia, Sept 28, GNA - With the current sanctions between Europe and Russia there is massive opportunity for African producers to develop their trading relationships with Russia, Managing Director at the Catalyze - International Events, Rex Bowden, has said in an interview with Ghana ...

The last civilian rescue ship in the central Mediterranean is unable to take 58 migrants to port for fear of being impounded as other boats have been in what aid groups say is an illegal campaign to stop their work. While the Aquarius waits to transfer its passengers to a Maltese coastguard vessel in international waters after Panama pulled its ...

The voice of dissent in Comoros is increasingly being stifled -- opposition figures, a writer and even military leaders have been arrested while the media has been silenced by the government of President Azali Assoumani. He is accused of trying to extend his rule at any cost and in July won 92.74 percent of votes cast in a referendum on increa ...