Burkina junta chief names new PM after dissolving government
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - (AFP) - Burkina Faso's junta head on Saturday named former communications minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister, according to...
Ghana votes in tight presidential election race
Accra, Ghana - (AFP) - Ghanaians voted in elections on Saturday with frontrunners vice president Mahamudu Bawumia of the NPP ruling party and opposition NDC...
Guinea prosecutor orders probe into arrest of anti-junta journalist
Conakry, Guinea (AFP) - A Guinean public prosecutor on Friday announced the opening of a probe into the arrest of a journalist critical of the...
Air strike on Khartoum mosque kills 7: Sudan lawyers’ group
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) - A Sudanese military air strike on a north Khartoum mosque killed seven civilians on Friday, pro-democracy lawyers said, in...
Six bodies pulled from illegal South African goldmine
Johannesburg, South Africa - (AFP) - Six bodies have been extracted over the past two days from an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein...
