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An outspoken member of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) party has been charged with ill-discipline for speaking out against President Jacob Zuma. MP Makhosi...

Tanzania’s university education authorities have banned 19 universities in the country from enrolling new students after a report blacklisted them for providing poor quality...

Schools in Ghana have been hit by a shortage of toilets and pit latrines which could affect the learning process of pupils, and a...

Seven people, including four children, were killed by fires in two separate incidents in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Cape Town.City of...

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have kidnapped 10 members of a university research team prospecting for oil in northeast Nigeria, the state oil company, which...

Suspected Christian militiamen killed two Moroccan peacekeepers from the United Nations mission in Central African Republic on Tuesday, the mission said, in the second...

Shops closed their doors in Addis Ababa's largest market on Tuesday in protest at a recent hike in business taxes, bringing anger over the...

Libya's opposing governments have committed to a conditional ceasefire following talks in France. UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and Khalifa Haftar, the rival military commander...

Suspected jihadists killed five people in a series of attacks overnight in northern Burkina Faso, local officials and security sources said Tuesday.Gunmen carried out...

Egypt's military said on Tuesday it has killed more than 40 extremists in a wide-ranging campaign in the Sinai Peninsula where the Islamic State...