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Algiers- The Algerian army on Friday killed two gunmen, south of Algiers. The Algerian Defense Ministry said in a statement today that its...

Tunis: An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit the southern town of Zarzis in southern Tunisia. A statement by the Tunisian...

MUTOKO, Zimbabwe: As the young senior student at Tabudirira primary school hits a huge iron metal dangling from a tree, which serves as...

Berlin: Congolese President Joseph Kabila on Saturday said he had never "promised anything" about whether to hold elections in the Democratic Republic of...

Algiers: A homemade bomb killed two Algerian soldiers and wounded four others in the Bir el-Ater area near the Tunisian border on Saturday,...

MAROUA, Cameroon: Seven people were killed Friday in a double suicide bomb attack in Cameroon’s Far North region, officials said. The two attackers...

JUBA, South Sudan: Botched measles vaccines claimed the lives of 15 South Sudanese children near the Kenyan border, health officials said on Friday....

Maseru, Lesotho: Voters in the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho cast ballots Saturday in an election widely expected to lead to another...

JUBA, South Sudan:  Fifteen young children have died in a botched measles vaccination campaign that saw people as young as 12 years old...

Niamey: At least 44 migrants, including women and babies, were found dead after their vehicle broke down in the desert of northern Niger...

Nairobi: Eight people, including seven police officers, were killed Wednesday when their vehicle ran over an improvized explosive device in Kenya. The police...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Unknown gunmen kidnapped a member of Nigerian parliament in northwestern Kaduna state, his aide said on Wednesday. “Honorable Garba Durbunde was...

ONITSHA, Nigeria: Members of Nigeria's Biafran separatist movement on Tuesday marked 50 years after civil war saw more than one million people die...

Niamey:  Niger opposition leader Hama Amadou's wife was jailed for baby smuggling Wednesday along with others who were tried and convicted in the...

KHARTOUM: Several prominent Darfurian rebels on Tuesday returned to Khartoum from Chad to join an ongoing peace process sponsored by the Sudanese government. ...

DAKAR: Thousands of Nigerian refugees uprooted by the jihadist group Boko Haram have returned home from Cameroon in recent weeks, piling pressure on...

Bangui, Central African Republic:  A damning United Nations report on Tuesday alleged horrific crimes in the Central African Republic including rape, murder, torture,...

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The European Union Monday adopted sanctions against another nine senior government officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo...