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By Enyichukwu Enemanna The Constitutional Court has cleared Ivory Coast's former First Lady Simone Gbagbo to contest in the October presidential election, a surprise inclusion that adds her to the list of five candidates who have...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Top officials of the South African government have been dispatched to the US for trade negotiations after attempting for months to strike a deal with Washington in order to roll back steep tariffs,...

By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue  Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated the continent’s biggest hydroelectric project, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The facility is a $4-billion megastructure. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hailed it as a “great achievement for...

By Emmanuel Nduka Obisue  The United States has deported Charles Mbayo, a former high-ranking junta member in Sierra Leone, over his alleged involvement in war crimes and human rights violations. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna An official of Uganda's largest opposition party, National Unity Platform (NUP) was on Monday arrested near a court while attending his colleagues bail hearing, an MP from the party and police spokesperson confirmed....

By Ebi Kesiena President Cyril Ramaphosa has stressed that South Africa’s fight against corruption cannot be reduced to arrests alone, insisting that prevention, institutional reform, and oversight are essential to achieving lasting change. His comments follow...