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Ghanaian peacekeeper named UN gender award winner

Ghanaian peacekeeper named UN gender award winner

A Ghanaian peacekeeper working in the contentious Abyei border region between Sudan...

Probe as Malawi fire guts sensitive state offices

Probe as Malawi fire guts sensitive state offices

The Malawian administration claims to be looking into a strange fire that burned...

Nigeria seizes UK-bound narcotics worth $1.2m

Nigeria seizes UK-bound narcotics worth $1.2m

A 30kg shipment of methamphetamine worth $1.2 million (£960,000) was intercepted...

SA opposition wants ministers' lavish homes probed

SA opposition wants ministers' lavish homes probed

According to South Africa's largest opposition party, inflated contracts for maintaining...

Scans seek to show how Egypt artists created mummy coffins

Scans seek to show how Egypt artists created mummy coffins

The scans are part of a study to find out how artists created the elaborate coffins...

Nigerian police search for kidnapped priest

Nigerian police search for kidnapped priest

The kidnapping is the most recent in a string of incidents in which clergy members...

Gambian army 'sorry' after soldiers tear off opposition posters

Gambian army 'sorry' after soldiers tear off opposition...

After some troops were spotted tearing down Mayor Taliba Ahmed Bensouda's campaign...

Zimbabwe pardons over 4,000 prisoners to decongest jails

Zimbabwe pardons over 4,000 prisoners to decongest jails

A presidential amnesty decision intended to relieve pressure on the nation's overcrowded...

Mass graves as survivors flee Nigeria's Plateau attack

Mass graves as survivors flee Nigeria's Plateau attack

Following an attack on a hamlet in Nigeria's Plateau state, dozens of victims have...

Tunisia frees students detained for satirical song

Tunisia frees students detained for satirical song

Two teenagers who were jailed in Tunisia due to a satirical song criticizing the...

Dozens of Ghanaian police officers sue over promotions

Dozens of Ghanaian police officers sue over promotions

The officers, under the leadership of deputy inspector Kofi Osal, contend that despite...

Two arrested over US convoy attack in Nigeria

Two arrested over US convoy attack in Nigeria

Police in the Nigerian state of Anambra report having detained two men they believe...

Nigerian authorities rescue US convoy kidnap victims

Nigerian authorities rescue US convoy kidnap victims

Washington claimed there were no US citizens in the convoy, which was traveling...

UN seeking $3bn for Sudan aid as fighting rages on

UN seeking $3bn for Sudan aid as fighting rages on

The United Nations urgently needs to raise $3 billion (£2.4 billion) to support...

Egypt accused of torturing women over alleged IS ties

Egypt accused of torturing women over alleged IS ties

According to the report, some of the women and girls were also victims of the IS-affiliated...

Four killed in attack on US convoy in Nigeria

Four killed in attack on US convoy in Nigeria

According to Nigerian police, gunmen ambushed a US convoy and killed four individuals,...

Kenya cult deaths rise to 211 as exhumation resumes

Kenya cult deaths rise to 211 as exhumation resumes

After starving in the forest, three members of the religious cult were found and...

Death toll in Sudan’s clashes rises to 822 - doctors union

Death toll in Sudan’s clashes rises to 822 - doctors union

According to a union of doctors in Sudan, 3,215 people have been injured and 822...

Canada denies welcoming Kenyans for jobs

Canada denies welcoming Kenyans for jobs

The Canadian government has refuted claims that Kenyans can now enter the country...

Tunisia opposition leader jailed for a year

Tunisia opposition leader jailed for a year

Opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has been given a year in prison by a Tunisian...

Police officer killed in Senegal clashes ahead of Sonko's trial

Police officer killed in Senegal clashes ahead of Sonko's...

Authorities said that a police officer died during riots in the southern town of...

Comoros to allow migrants voluntarily returning from Mayotte

Comoros to allow migrants voluntarily returning from Mayotte

The Comorian administration first rejected accepting the deportees because it asserts...

Sudan's interior minister sacked amid lawlessness

Sudan's interior minister sacked amid lawlessness

Anan Hamed Mohammed Omar, who serves as both the acting interior minister and police...

Over 20 missing as hippo hits boat in southern Malawi

Over 20 missing as hippo hits boat in southern Malawi

After a canoe carrying them was struck by a hippo and crashed on the Shire River...

South Africa will stay neutral on Ukraine war - Ramaphosa

South Africa will stay neutral on Ukraine war - Ramaphosa

According to Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, the nation is under "extraordinary...

Sudan's warring sides trade blame over church attack

Sudan's warring sides trade blame over church attack

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are located in Omdurman, a city...