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The International Criminal Court has sentenced Democratic Republic of Congo's former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to 12 months in prison.He has also been fined...

Officials in Burkina Faso say about 50 girls have been hospitalised after undergoing female genital mutilation. According to BBC Afrique, some of the girls...

Angolan officials say five people were killed during a stampede in a stadium after a football match over the weekend.The country's sports ministry said...

Ghana’s government is marking a year since it rolled out its much publicized free education policy.The policy was meant to widen access to secondary...

A protest has been held over ongoing reported cases of human rights abuses and torture of opposition political activists in Comoros.Members of the United...

Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame has granted presidential pardon to a jailed opposition leader, Victoire Ingabire.Justice minister of Rwanda said on Saturday that Ingabire, jailed...

Fresh fighting broke out on Friday in South Sudan just two days after the warring parties signed what the government called a "final final"...

Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has postponed a reported plan to “inaugurate” its leader Nelson Chamisa as ‘President’.The party wanted to...

The U.S. government says it has no intentions of lifting sanctions against some key Zimbabwean leaders including its President.Zimbabwe held fresh elections recently but...

The late former UN secretary General, Kofi Annan has been laid to rest in his home country Ghana. A private burial ceremony was held...