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Most of those leaving the country in anticipation of violence are women. Photo Credit: Getty Gambians are reportedly fleeing their country days before the tenure...

President Salva Kiir has sacked the central bank governor a week after a Swiss firm offered to bail out the nascent state's empty coffers....

The Alliance for Democratic Change (ACT-Wazalendo) has said it would table in Parliament a motion of no confidence against President John Magufuli in the...

The last king of Rwanda, who died aged 80 in October in the United States after decades in exile, was buried in his ancestral...

At least 10 people were killed in a Brazilian prison uprising late on Saturday, local media said, adding to chaos in the country's penitentiary...

Men play cards in the light of a lamp as the city witnesses a break in electricity for long hours  in Benghazi. Photo Credit:...

Cameroon"s Jacques Zoua Daogari is tackled by Burkina Faso"s Bakary Kone. African Cup of Nations - Burkina Faso v Cameroon - Stade de l"Aball...

At least eight migrants died when their boat overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday but the death toll may be much higher,...

The Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow is to remain in Senegal until his planned inauguration on Thursday, state media in Senegal say. The move was requested...

Gunmen kidnapped five students and two staff, including a Turkish national, from an international school in Nigeria's southern state of Ogun, police said on...