Isaac Kaledzi

Tough talks between the parties hoping to form Germany's next government failed to reach a breakthrough overnight and were expected to resume on Friday as Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that "serious differences" remained between the sides.

A man believed to be a leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kamwina Nsapu militia has been detained over a beheading in the troubled Kasai region, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday.

Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been dropped for disciplinary reasons.

Kenyans would on Monday know the outcome of the current petition at the country’s Supreme Court challenging the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta in the October 26 presidential re-run poll.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who is under house arrest after the military takeover has been holding crisis meeting over his future.

Opposition supporters in Togo continue to hold street protests demanding that their president, Faure Gnassingbe exits power and make way for political reforms.

The opposition leader in Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called on the embattled president of the country, Robert Mugabe to step down and make way for a peaceful transition process.

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution increasing the UN peacekeeping force in the conflict-torn Central African Republic to a total of 11 650 military personnel.

The embattled President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe is reported to be refusing to cede power as he holds back ongoing mediation for an end to the current political crisis.

Over the mature tenure of my forty-one years of existence, I have become ever more convinced that Ghana’s dream of becoming a beacon of democracy and development must necessarily hinge on freeing up the competitive business spirits of its citizens. To do so, there are features of this nation’s idiosyncrasies that must be toppled.