[allAfrica] South African actor Mpho Sebeng tragically passed away in a car accident on Sunday morning in Potchefstroom. The news was confirmed by his family in a statement later that evening.

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[HRW] Candidates in South Africa's forthcoming general elections have been scapegoating and demonizing foreign nationals, risking stoking xenophobic violence, Human Rights Watch said today.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- State-owned and private hired helicopter and speed boat are turning out to be the most preferred to save hundreds of people stranded by rising flood waters in in various parts of the country.,

[RFI] Chadians go to the polls on Monday three years after their military leader seized power, in the first presidential election in Africa's Sahel region since a wave of coups.

Maize output in Zimbabwe will drop by almost three-quarters this year as the nation experiences its worst drought in four decades, according to the government.

When Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, Daniel Francisco Chapo was only 2 years old. Now he will be the presidential candidate for Frelimo, that country's ruling party since independence.

Eighteen people were killed and 32 wounded on Friday when at least five rockets fell on camps sheltering displaced people around the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said,

Chad will be the first coup-hit Sahel country to reestablish a non-military government if the election succeeds, but it remained tense on Monday.

Former Botswana president Ian Khama has been branded a "fugitive from justice" approaching the courts with "unclean hands" by that country's minister of local government and rural development.

[RFI] Chadians go to the polls on Monday three years after their military leader seized power, in the first presidential election in Africa's Sahel region since a wave of coups.

[New Times] The government of Rwanda has dismissed reports from that the U.S. Department of State claiming that the country was behind the bombing of IDP (internally displaced people) camps around Goma, a city in DR Congo.

[RFI] Following three years of military rule, Chadians will cast their ballots in presidential elections on Monday, with General Mahamat Idriss Déby poised to consolidate the family dynasty.

[New Times] This past week, the government, through the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) announced that they would soon reinvigorate the programme to distribute laptop computers to various primary schools countrywide, a project that will cost over ...

[Nile Post] The Rwandan government has rejected blame for Friday's attack on internally displaced people's camp in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma.