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The authorities in Niger said on Sunday that three police officers had been arrested after allegedly assaulting a demonstrator at a violent student protest...

A Cairo court acquitted on Sunday an Egyptian-American woman and seven others who worked with street children and had been detained for nearly three...

Police in Guinea have arrested an army colonel on suspicion of animal trafficking and seized a menagerie of animals from two properties he owns...

Two men were killed in the Somali capital after they were spotted firing mortars that appeared to be aimed at the international airport on...

Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers. More than...

A top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official, Ulrich Jacoby, has said the Gambia is at an economic turning point following the transition of power...

rop-eating caterpillars known as fall armyworms have damaged crops across southern Ethiopia, the latest country to be struck by the pests in a region...

The Speaker of South Africa’s Parliament has postponed the debate on a no confidence motion against the country's President Jacob Zuma.Baleka Mbete in a...

Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has announced that it has discovered about $43m in a flat in Nigeria's Lagos city. Officials from the agency stormed the said...

Close to 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said.Coastguard spokesman...