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BANJUL, Gambia: A powerful West African economic bloc has sent 20 observers to monitor Gambia’s historic first elections since the fall of its...

Mogadishu: At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the Somali...

Bangui, Central African Republic: With EU help, the Central African Republic is seeking to turn the page on years of bloodshed by retraining...

Lagos: Health workers in Nigeria on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to try to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis that has...

NAIROBI: Kenya’s electoral body on Monday said the opposition's plan to hold parallel vote tallying in Aug. 8 presidential election was illegal. Opposition...

KHARTOUM: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has distributed humanitarian aid to 1,300 South Sudanese refugees in Sudan. The aid was distributed...

HARARE, Zimbabwe: The World Food Programme (WFP) and Zimbabwe’s government launched a $253 million, five-year plan to end hunger on Monday, amid claims...

LUSAKA: One man was killed in a confrontation between Zambia police and supporters of the five opposition political parties who attempted to attend...

MOGADISHU: A Turkish delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday.  Kaynak and his delegation...

Abuja: Three suicide bombers have been killed in two foiled suicide attacks in the outskirts of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri in northeastern...

Johannesburg:  South Africa's main opposition party said on Sunday that it had charged a provincial leader with misconduct after she posted on Twitter...

NAIROBI, Kenya: A Kenyan court Friday temporarily blocked a government move to hire foreign doctors from Tanzania and Cuba in the wake of...

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The UN human rights office in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Friday it knows of 23 mass...

JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma replaced several high-profile ministers in a cabinet reshuffle announced Friday, leading to a five-percent drop in the...

Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP...

JOHANNESBURG: President Jacob Zuma’s midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets on Friday, undermining his authority and threatening to split...

Johannesburg:  South African President Jacob Zuma has come under fire from both his own party and the opposition over a cabinet reshuffle in...

Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday extended the country's state of emergency by four months, national broadcaster EBC reported, two weeks after...