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Benin voted for a new parliament on Sunday with opposition candidates authorized to stand in the legislative elections for the...

Kenyan police have arrested more suspects over the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was found on...

Laser beams illuminate a darkened restaurant turned dance hall in Cairo as revelers move to thumping beats from female DJs...

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July departed the capital Bamako on Saturday, a day after being pardoned by...

Beninese vote on Sunday for new lawmakers with the strong presence of women and young candidates giving voters a sense...

"I was able to come this year because there is peace," says Asme Mamo as he joins crowds of worshippers...

Kenyan police said Friday that they had arrested a suspect in the killing of an LGBTQ rights campaigner whose body...

Benin goes to the polls Sunday for a legislative ballot marked by the opposition's electoral return following a de facto...

World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record...

Government forces in the self-declared Somaliland republic have withdrawn from a contested town near the border of Somalia after days...

The government in Chad said Thursday that it had foiled an "attempted destabilization" plot by army officers and a prominent...

At just twenty-three, Hayat fears her long quest for a new life in Britain will come to nothing and she...

Mauritania's ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who faces a trial for alleged corruption, said on Thursday that he had been...

Dozens of Tunisian lawyers protested on Thursday against newly imposed taxes on legal services, part of a 2023 budget that...

"They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades...

A low voter turnout has been witnessed in  Garissa and Kandara constituencies as members of the public line up to...

Equatorial Guinea's vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, has accused Spain of interference after Madrid opened a probe into top...

Tunisia faces a year of low economic growth and runaway inflation, and urgently needs a bailout deal with the International...

The EU on Wednesday defended a trip by its top diplomat to Morocco, which has been linked, along with Qatar,...

A Tunisian former environment minister has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the illegal import...

Nineteen people have been killed in twin car bombings in central Somalia claimed by Al-Shabaab, a local militia commander in...

The Tunisian government on Tuesday presented a three-year development plan that relies heavily on private sector investment, particularly in industry,...

A court in Spain has opened a probe into three people close to Equatorial Guinea's veteran president on suspicion of...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor,...

Twenty-eight bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso at the weekend, the government said, as rights campaigners blamed a volunteer...

The European Union on Saturday urged Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebel group, which has captured swathes of territory...

In 2019, Ghana had the world’s fastest-growing economy after a period of promising economic growth. However, that is not the...

The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank off the country's southern coast while attempting to...

Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the Suez Canal...

The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected,...