Patients being monitored as possible Ebola patients fled a camp in eastern DR Congo on Thursday after it was attacked by demonstrators protesting further delays to the country's election, the health ministry said. Around 20 patients fled the centre during the incident, at a holding centre in the Beni region, the epicentre of this latest outbreak ...

Uganda's Bobi Wine condemns police ban of his Boxing Day concert in Kampala, vows to step up legal battle to hold political concerts against President Museveni's regime. Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reports that security forces cordoned off the One Love Beach venue in the Kampala neighborhood of Busabala, where the popular popstar and lawmak ...

Andry Rajoelina, who returned to the helm of Madagascar after last week's hotly-contested election, is one of three politicians to have dominated the politics of the Indian Ocean island nation. Nicknamed the disc jockey , a moniker he earned from his popularity for promoting parties in the capital Antananarivo, Rajoelina burst onto the politica ...

Former Madagascan president Andry Rajoelina has beaten his rival and predecessor Marc Ravalomanana in an election beset by allegations of fraud from both sides, the electoral commission said Thursday. Rajoelina has returned to power after he won 55.66 percent against 44.34 percent for Ravalomanana, it said. The results, announced under high s ...

Did South Africa's Gupta Brothers also capture the bankrupt SABC? The names of the powerful Guptas at the center of the State Capture scandal which caused the downfall of ousted President Jacob Zuma have emerged in the list of businessmen who fed fat on the bankrupt public SABC broadcaster. City Press says the footprints of the Gupta ...

The French presidency has written to Emmanuel Macron's disgraced former bodyguard Alexandre Benalla raising concerns over his recent work as a consultant in Africa, according to the letter seen by AFP on Thursday. Benalla faces criminal charges after it emerged in July that he roughed up protesters during a May Day demonstration in Paris while ...

Five African heads of state on Wednesday voiced strong concern over the violence during the presidential campaign of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where voting has been postponed until March in the regions of Beni-Butembo and Yumbi. Clashes in some locations are enough to compromise voter's peace of mind, said a statement issued at the end o ...