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Over 14000 students of Uganda's Makerere University are reported to have secured fake marks towards graduating.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has for the first time ordered a war criminal to pay reparations to victims of his atrocities.

An Egyptian appeals court suspended a jail sentence on Saturday against the former head of the journalists' union for harboring colleagues wanted by authorities and for spreading false news, judicial sources and a lawyer said.

A court in Niger has freed fifteen civilians accused of complicity in an attempted putsch against President Mahamadou Issoufou, their lawyer said on Saturday.

One man was killed and three others injured in an explosion in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Nigeria has launched an online system aimed at enabling business executives to apply for a visa online and collect it on arrival 48 hours later, its immigration service said on Thursday.

Officials in The Gambia on Thursday announced that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission will soon be set up following the exit of former longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.

Ten people are reported to have been killed on Wednesday at Merti along the Samburu-Baringo border in Kenya Rift Valley following a cattle raid.

The President of Tanzania John Magufuli on Thursday sacked his information minister.

Rwandan prosecutors charged a dual Rwandan-British citizen of treason on Thursday, accusing her of forming an armed group and conspiring to unseat the president.