5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (27+ words) africanews.com Ethiopia: Authorities in Tigray accuse Addis Ababa of drone strike near Mekelle...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (403+ words) Dozens of journalists protested in Tunisia on Tuesday over the arrest of a reporter on money-laundering charges, accusations his lawyer said were unfounded. Mohamed Yousfi, editor-in-chief of the Alqatiba website, was detained on Friday when he arrived for a radio…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (328+ words) Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for deliberately setting forest fires after a recent wave of blazes killed 12 people. The move comes as authorities investigate fires that erupted across several eastern provinces. Tebboune issued…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (442+ words) Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has ordered security forces to track down gunmen accused of killing dozens of people and abducting residents from four villages in Niger state. The attacks took place last Friday in the remote Borgu area, near Nigeria's…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (314+ words) A Tanzanian court on Friday ruled that the treason trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go ahead after finding that he has a case to answer. Lissu, head of the opposition Chadema party, was detained in April 2025 and charged…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (451+ words) Liberia has charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking, money laundering and related offences in an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network. She was detained while attempting to leave the country, marking a major development in Liberia’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (434+ words) Nigerian authorities have arrested a social media personality they say was a senior figure in an international cocaine trafficking operation following the seizure of 184.5kg of the drug in Lagos. Afolabi Kazeem Micheal, 49, was detained at Lagos's Murtala Mohammed International Airport…...