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Guinea-Bissau opposition leader excluded from presidential vote list

Bissau – Guinea-Bissau’s main opposition leader, former prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira, was excluded from a provisional list of... Read more

14 Oct

Taipei – Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed Friday to speed up construction of a multi-layered air defence system as... Read more

10 Oct

Nairobi – South Sudan’s opposition said Saturday it had misidentified a prisoner in a photograph as a bodyguard of... Read more

22 Sep

Dakar – Senegal’s government has replaced the justice and interior ministers in a cabinet shake-up, pledging a “government of... Read more

8 Sep

Niamey – The Niger army on Thursday said that it had killed a leader of the jihadist group Boko... Read more

22 Aug

Abidjan – Ivory Coast’s ruling party on Wednesday accused the opposition of “fuelling a climate of tension” after it... Read more

21 Aug

Abidjan – The leader of Ivory Coast’s main opposition party suffered a blow to his presidential hopes on Thursday... Read more

15 Aug

Cape Town – Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie has instructed his party’s legal team to take action against the... Read more

6 Aug

Blantyre – Two former Malawian presidents on Sunday launched separate campaigns to unseat President Lazarus Chakwera in the country’s... Read more

4 Aug

Kinshasa – The trial of Democratic Republic of Congo’s former leader Joseph Kabila on charges including treason will open... Read more

25 Jul