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Kinshasa: Twenty-three people died in weekend clashes triggered by tribal rivalry in Congo's central Tshikapa region, the deputy governor of Kasai province said...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Thousands of health workers went on strike across Kenya on Monday in a bid to get the government to implement a...

Accra: Ghana's President John Mahama is a man of the people who is known for his good humour, but forced onto the back...

BANJUL: Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh was celebrating his 48th birthday in Banjul in May 2013 when he saw a poor street hawker selling...

ACCRA: Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade...

The Hague: Dominic Ongwen, the former child soldier who became a Lord's Resistance Army warlord, will go before war crimes judges on Tuesday...

Accra: Two old foes are stepping back into the ring to fight in Ghana's hotly contested presidential election on December 7. This is...

Johannesburg: For nearly 40 years Angolans endured a bloody civil war and extreme poverty as power rested solely in the hands of autocratic...

Banjul, Gambia: The Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow was to hold talks with his coalition Saturday to plot his transition to power, following a...

Bobigny, France:  A French jury retired to consider its verdict Saturday over an appeal by a former Rwandan intelligence agent jailed for 25...

BOSASSO, Somalia: Soldiers allied to the Western-backed Somali government said they killed seven insurgents from a faction loyal to the Islamic State group...

Banjul, Gambia: Opposition candidate Adama Barrow hailed a "new Gambia" Friday after he pulled off a stunning presidential election victory, putting an end...

Banjul:  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has conceded defeat to the opposition, the chairman of the electoral commission said yesterday, bringing a dramatic end...

Lagos: A billion dollars are needed to provide aid for victims of Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria's restive northeast next year, the United...

BANJUL: Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for “a billion years”, was handed a shock election...

Nairobi: Two Iranians have been charged with planning a terrorist act after their arrest for filming the Israeli embassy in the Kenyan capital...

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG: Ethnic cleansing is taking place in some areas of South Sudan and the stage is set for a repeat of the Rwandan...

Dakar: The Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow, one of the giants of African art, died Thursday in Dakar aged 81, his family told AFP....