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LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 150 people were killed and several thousand others displaced in communal clashes last week in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Cross...

ACCRA, Ghana: A 15-member rescue team was deployed on Tuesday to search for survivors after 14 miners died in a collapsed mine in...

Luanda:  Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned to Spain on Monday for a "private visit", officials said, five weeks after a monthlong...

Algiers: The Algerian army killed 63 terrorists and confiscated a large quantity of military weapons during operations carried out in the first six...

Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram fighters have been found among refugees returning to northeast Nigeria from neighbouring Cameroon, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency...

Geneva: The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on Saturday, the WHO...

Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari faced a fresh call to quit Thursday, nearly two months after he left the country on indefinite sick...

Paris: Investigators have widened a corruption probe into the French assets of three African ruling families, charging the daughter and son-in-law of Congo's...

MONROVIA, Liberia: Liberia and a Chinese company signed Friday the first ever steel manufacturing agreement in the West African country in more than...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria's senate President Bukola Saraki on Friday condemned the government's appeal against the tribunal ruling that acquitted him from corruption charges...

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: UN experts will be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate violence in which hundreds of...

LUSAKA, Zambia: Zambia police Friday arrested and detained the entire provincial executive committee of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) in...

MAROUA, Cameroon: At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials said Thursday. The attack...

JOHANNESBURG: Some 100 people were reportedly killed in intense fighting that broke out Tuesday in the Central African Republic (CAR), local media and...

Geneva: The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by Boko Haram...

Juba: A famine that was declared in parts of South Sudan four months ago is over, UN aid agencies said Wednesday, but extreme...

ROME/TUNUSIA: At least 126 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

KHARTOUM: A prominent Sudanese journalist declared a one-man strike Monday to protest the confiscation of his newspaper -- for the third consecutive day...