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MOGADISHU, At least 11 Somalis were killed in the southern city of Baidoa on Thursday and early Friday in clashes between police and...

BAMAKO: Gunmen on motorbikes have killed more than 40 Tuareg civilians this week in north Mali, where clashes over land and scarce water...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenyan police officials on Tuesday said they have detained the man they believe to be responsible for the kidnapping of an...

DAKAR, Senegal:  The death toll from Ebola has risen to 235 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of an outbreak...

DAR ES SALAAM:  Ten opposition parties in Tanzania say proposed amendments to a law governing political parties would criminalise their activities. Critics of...

Kano, Nigeria: Two soldiers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters loyal to factional leader Abubakar Shekau attacked a military base in northeast...

NAIROBI: Three people were injured by an explosion on a highway in northeast Kenya on Saturday, an official told Reuters, without saying who...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sent the 2018 electoral bill back to the National Assembly, his legislative adviser, Ita Enang, said, without revealing whether...

Yaoundé:  A separatist leader from the anglophone west of Cameroon went on trial Thursday on charges of "terrorism" and "secession" over unrest that...

NAIROBI, Kenya: The United Nations human rights office says Burundi's government has asked it to leave. Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani in Geneva confirms that...

Lome: Togo's government has banned a series of planned opposition protests on security grounds, saying the marches posed a security risk. A coalition...

Bangui, Central African Republic, The line of parents waiting to see doctors stretches back outside the hospital into the dusty courtyard. Mums and...

Police officers show seized 11 pieces of ivory weighing 55 kg estimated to be of street value 5.5 million Kenyan Shilling (about 47.300...

Ouagadougou: Five people, four of them police, were killed when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Burkina Faso, security sources...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar's president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, conceded defeat in his bid for a second term after managing a distant third in the first round...

CAPE TOWN:  South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge on Friday brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's...

JOHANNESBURG: At least 1.5 million children in the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR) require urgent aid and protection, the United Nations said on...

Kinshasa:  A Catholic activist group which has strongly campaigned against President Joseph Kabila warned Friday against any delay in the transfer of power...