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Incumbent leader Paul Kagame swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda's presidential election, securing a third term in office and extending his 17 years in power, final results showed on Saturday.

The US military on Friday confirmed it killed a high-level commander of the al-Shabaab extremist group with an airstrike in Somalia over the weekend,...

A Senegalese music star has been arrested for criticizing the president of the country, Macky Sall.

Egypt's state-run news agency says a policeman and a civilian have been killed in a drive-by shooting attack.

The UK has extradited a self-styled Kenyan pastor, who claimed he created miraculous pregnancies, to Kenya to face child-trafficking charges.

Police and opposition activists clashed on Thursday in Mauritania's capital on the final day of campaigning for a controversial constitutional referendum.

Neymar's has an emotional farewell message for Barcelona fans

Rihanna is giving bikes to girls in Malawi to help them get an education. It's part of a new partnership between the singer's Clara Lionel Foundation and Chinese bike-sharing company Ofo.

The UN on Friday detailed more than 250 "extrajudicial or targeted killings" in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region from mid-March to mid-June,...

Passengers jostled with ticket touts and hawkers at Kenya's main bus stations on Thursday as thousands started leaving cities before next week's vote, some because they are registered in rural wards, others because they are scared of violence.