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A TV station based outside Ethiopia broadcast footage of the fire.  Photo Credit: ESAT At least 38 inmates have been charged in an Ethiopian court with...

South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) and President Jacob Zuma listen to the national anthem at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town,...

Nigeria's security forces have killed more than 150 peaceful protestors since August 2015, a human rights group has claimed. Amnesty International said the country's military...

Women in Ethiopia live under constant fear of violence, illness, hunger and poverty but they are now also facing a new threat - human...

Two days of fighting between armed groups in Central African Republic has left 16 people dead including civilians while 10,000 have fled their homes,...

An unnamed African "high-ranking" diplomat has told Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya TV that African countries will soon hold an emergency meeting to look into disagreements over...

Lawyers and teachers in Cameroon are opposing the influence exerted by Francophone speakers in their lives in a country that is officially bilingual.The opposition Social...

No longer in cuffs - Zimbabwe War Veterans former spokesman Douglas Mahiya. Zimbabwe's war veterans are celebrating after a Harare magistrate suspended their trial and...

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said her investigations into alleged war crimes would not be impacted by the plans of three African countries to...

Mosquitoes are spreading agents for the deadly dengue virus. Photo Credit: AFP Dengue fever has killed at least 20 people in Burkina Faso where about...