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Special police team to investigate killing of an anti-migrant leader in South Africa

A special police team has begun investigating the killing of a provincial leader of an anti-migrant group in South Africa. Police confirmed that Andile Mvuyelwa...

Kenyan court rejects Rastafarians’ bid to legalise cannabis for religious use

Kenya's High Court has dismissed a bid by a Rastafarian group seeking to legalise the use of cannabis for religious purposes. The Rastafarian community had...

Physically challenged man arrested for concealing drugs inside prosthetic leg

A physically challenged man has been arrested after customs officers allegedly discovered 1,590 ecstasy pills concealed inside his prosthetic leg during a routine operation...

Sierra Leone drops treason charge against ex-president over attempted coup

Sierra Leone's government has dropped its charges, including treason, against ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was arrested in connection with an attempted coup nearly...

South Africa says more than 53,000 foreigners deported in migration campaign

The South African government says more than 53,000 foreign nationals have been deported or repatriated since launching a "migration management" campaign five weeks ago. Most...

‘We live in fear every day’ – Stranded Ghanaian in South Africa

A Ghanaian woman stranded in South Africa has described the difficult conditions at the Pretoria West camp, where dozens of Ghanaians are awaiting evacuation...

Zambia Vice President escapes injury after helicopter accident

Vice President of Zambia Mutale Nalumango escaped injury after a Zambia Air Force helicopter carrying her was involved in an incident during takeoff in...

Sierra Leone introduces mandatory health declaration for Ghanaian travellers

Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised citizens travelling to Sierra Leone to complete a mandatory online health declaration before embarking on their journey. In...

GSS survey reveals wide variations in non-standard food measurements across Ghana

A new survey by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that non-standard measurement units such as olonka, cups, buckets, bundles and heaps remain...

Zimbabwean football star survives gun attack in South Africa

Zimbabwean footballer Divine Lunga has survived a gun attack in Johannesburg, South African police have said. The football star, 31, was driving in the inner-city...

Ghana declines Ramaphosa state visit over xenophobic attacks

Ghana has declined a request for a state visit by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa amid concerns over recent xenophobic attacks targeting Ghanaian nationals...

Nigerian student dies after suffering injuries in Russian airstrike

A 23-year-old Nigerian medical graduate, Nnani Adaobi Marian, has died after sustaining critical injuries in a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, just days before...

Why Ghana and other African nations are turning down Trump aid money

After dismantling the main US body for delivering foreign assistance last year, the Trump administration is again offering hundreds of millions of dollars to...

Ugandan gov’t evacuates 424 citizens from South Africa

The government of Uganda has evacuated 424 Ugandan nationals from South Africa following weeks of anti-migrant protests and xenophobic violence. The first batch of returnees,...

Nigeria says two nationals killed in South Africa amid rise of anti-migrant attacks

Nigeria says two of its citizens have been killed in South Africa "at a time when foreigners are being unduly targeted" there. A statement from...

International Criminal ​Court confirms Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger move to leave court

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have initiated a year-long process of withdrawing from the International Criminal ​Court (ICC), the court said in a statement. The...

Xenophobic attacks: South Africa rejects Ghana’s claim over Ghanaian’s killing

The South African government has disputed claims by Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a Ghanaian national was killed during anti-immigrant demonstrations in Cape...

Google has exceeded $1 billion Africa investment target

Google has exceeded a five-year target to invest $1 billion in Africa, it said on Wednesday, ​as it made public initiatives on infrastructure and...

Floods in Ivory Coast kill 59 people, government says

Floods in ‌the Ivory Coast have killed 59 people, ​government spokesman Amadou ​Coulibaly said after a cabinet meeting ⁠on Wednesday. The ​search is continuing, and...

Gov’t condemns killing of Ghanaian in South Africa, demands justice

The Government of Ghana has strongly condemned the killing of a Ghanaian national, Mr. Bashiru Isak, during anti-immigrant demonstrations in South Africa, describing the...

Xenophobic attacks: Nigeria to seek compensation for property abandoned by citizens fleeing South Africa

Nigeria has stated that it will seek compensation from South Africa for its citizens who have left the country following recent protests targeting undocumented...

South Africa: One Ghanaian shot dead during mass xenophobic protests

A Ghanaian tailor has been shot dead in his shop in Cape Town, South Africa, during violent protests targeting foreign nationals, the Ghana High...

South Africa’s anti-migrant protesters march nationwide, after thousands flee violence

Anti-immigrant protesters draped in flags and wielding wooden weapons marched ​across cities in South Africa on Tuesday to mark a deadline they had set...

Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion, UN says

The United Nations said on Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak could ​cost Africa up to $3.6 billion and hundreds of ‌thousands of jobs, potentially...

No Ghanaians detained in South Africa after latest protests – High Commissioner confirms

Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, Benjamin Quashie, has assured that no Ghanaian remains in police custody following anti-immigration protests that swept through parts...

Thousands of anti-migrant protesters march in South Africa amid heavy police presence

Thousands of people are marching in South Africa's main cities to demand that all undocumented migrants leave the country. Police officers – backed by private...

Heavy security deployed in South Africa ahead of anti-migrant protests

Police officers have been deployed across South Africa because of fears that anti-immigration protests could turn violent as President Cyril Ramaphosa urged those planning...

Ghana High Commission urges nationals in South Africa to stay indoors over anti-immigrant protests

The High Commission of Ghana in South Africa has advised Ghanaian nationals to remain indoors and suspend business activities on Tuesday, June 30, as...

Fear grows in South Africa as anti-migrant ‘deadline’ looms

People intending to protest against migrants should do so without “intimidation, threats or ultimatums”, President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned on the eve of an...

Gov’t prepares to evacuate about 900 Ghanaians from South Africa

Ghana’s High Commission in South Africa has moved nearly 900 Ghanaians to safe locations as part of urgent preparations to evacuate them ahead of...

MTN Chairman blames state failure for rising anti-foreigner sentiment in South Africa

Chairman of MTN Group, Mcebisi Jonas, has delivered a strong criticism of South Africa’s growing anti-foreigner sentiment, arguing that xenophobic rhetoric masks deeper failures of...

DR Congo takes Rwanda to international court over decades of conflict

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its neighbour of breaching multiple...

Thousands seek way out as South Africa braces for anti-immigrant protests

Thousands of Malawian migrants queued for processing at a makeshift camp in the South African city of Durban ​this week while hundreds of Zimbabweans...

Morocco and PSG player Hakimi to stand trial on rape charge

Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi, who is due to ​join the Morocco squad against Scotland later on Friday, ‌said he faced trial on a...

Zimbabwe MPs pass bill to extend president’s time in power

Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament has passed a bill to extend presidential terms from five to seven years, which would allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa...

Senegal’s President Faye calls for concrete action on UN reparations resolution

The President of the Republic of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has called for concrete and coordinated steps to ensure the full implementation of the...

Equatorial Guinea government resigns after failing to meet barely 10% of its targets

Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President...

Man jailed for storing human faeces outside his home in Northern Nigeria

A man in northern Nigeria has been sentenced to two weeks in prison after neighbours complained that he was storing bags of human faeces...

Libya recovers 15 bodies of migrants east of capital Tripoli

The bodies of at least 15 migrants have washed ​ashore in Libya in a ‌coastal city east of the capital, Tripoli-based medics said on...

WHO Chief condemns deadly xenophobic attacks in South Africa

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has strongly condemned the recent wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, describing the violence...