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Michael Moussa Adamo, the foreign minister of Gabon, passed away on Friday (Jan. 20) after having a heart attack in the middle of a cabinet meeting. An ally of President Ali Bongo

Thousands of people marched in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to demand the expulsion of the French ambassador. The Pan-African Leaders Collective, a political coalition that includes organizations that support Captain

After a ban imposed by former president John Magafuli was lifted, the opposition Chadema party in Tanzania held its first significant public gathering. The current president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, lifted the 2016

On Saturday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited a salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal, one of the most well-known representations of the atrocities of the transatlantic slave trade. It is

According to the country’s Health Ministry, a bus crashed into a canal in Egypt’s Nile River Delta region on Saturday (Nov 12), killing at least 21 people. Three children were among the

On Monday, Kenya commemorated 59 years of freedom from British colonial rule (Dec. 12). William Ruto, Kenya’s fifth president, praised those who assisted in the country’s liberation from British colonialism nearly 60