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Seven judges in Nigeria have been suspended by the country’s judicial council over corruption allegations.Last month the country’s security agency announced it has seized...

A high court in Uganda has ordered the shutting down of several primary schools run by the US social enterprise, Bridge International Academies. The schools...

Russia on Thursday criticized U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's decision to fire a Kenyan peacekeeping commander in South Sudan as premature, saying the mission there...

The government of Burundi has announced it will withdraw its troops from the African Union (AU) force fighting militants in Somalia over unpaid allowances...

Ghana’s election management body has stated that it is confident presidential and parliamentary elections in that country will take place on the scheduled date...

The 19-year-old goalkeeper of The Gambian national women's football team drowned while crossing the Mediterranean in the hope of starting a new life in...

South Africa's parliament is to debate a “no confidence” motion against President Jacob Zuma on November 10. The opposition leader Mmusi Maimane told Reuters news...

The drug enforcement authority in Mali has destroyed over four tonnes of drugs by burning them.This is part of renewed efforts at dealing with...

The government in Nigeria has said that it’s national tax authorities have been reviewing some 700,0000 applications for just 500 jobs. The West African nation...

Five pro-democracy activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested in October for protesting have now been released on bail by the government.The Filimbi...