The legal team for Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, has revealed that the MP's health is deteriorating. Kyagulanyi was charged in the presence of his two lawyers and ... Read more »

President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has made major security shake-ups to step up the fight against Al-Shabaab. Read more »

Thousands of Zimbabweans showed up for 38th Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day celebration at the Sakubva Stadium in Mutare but for the first time, none of the Mugabe family members ... Read more »

Freelance journalist Emmanuel Freudenthal reports for IRIN on a week-long journey with a secessionist anglophone armed group which is fighting the government of Cameroon in a bid ... Read more »

A detachment of soldiers took their protests to the Maiduguri airport and shot sporadically into the air to protest against their redeployment to a restive part of the north-east ... Read more »

Although Mnangagwa might have some newfound authority following his recent disputed narrow election victory which gave him the people's mandate, Chiwenga's manoeuvres since the ... Read more »

With the declaration of war with Ethiopia, all Eritrean men between the ages of 18 - 50 were required to serve in the army for more than 20 years. This has been given as one of the ... Read more »

Sylvia Matambo-Maphosa was shot in her back in Harare when soldiers fired at youths who violently protested the opposition MDC Alliance's electoral defeat to Zanu-PF in the ... Read more »

Mobs looted shops and burned down properties in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region, as unrest gained momentum and spread across the province following deployment of soldiers. ... Read more »

The government has assembled what it described as 1,000-strong military force to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State. Read more »