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Former cabinet minister Paul Otuoma will fly the ODM flag in the Busia governor race in the August 9 general...

The much-postponed corruption trial of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma ran into fresh legal delays and health problems on Monday...

DR Congo's top court on Monday tossed out a 13-year jail term handed to a former aide to President Felix...

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday blasted vigilante groups for harassing migrants in South Africa, likening their behaviour to strategies adopted...

It's the Algerian start-up that made good: despite the country's notoriously complex business climate, taxi and home-delivery firm Yassir has...

Former Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Azimio Secretariat.  Azimio Presidential...

Motorists using the Nairobi Expressway will have the option of paying electronically or in cash. The Moja Expressway Company, which...

Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups and...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had resumed aid by road to the war-ravaged Ethiopian region...

Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of...

Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations...

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously for a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab insurgents...

Chad is in need of debt restructuring to help the country's economy, which saw weak growth last year, the IMF...

The French medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Thursday that five employees who were kidnapped more than a month...

A Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year's military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and...

A senior World Bank official called for more support for poor people globally Thursday as the war in Ukraine sends...

The speaker of Tunisia's parliament on Thursday rejected President Kais Saied's dissolution of the assembly the previous day. "We consider...

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma on Thursday lost another bid to delay his corruption trial, as a court rejected...

Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai has appealed against a Sh500,000 penalty fine imposed on him by the Senate Devolution Committee for...

A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has...

Zimbabwe's general election is still a year away, but pro-democracy activists say they are worried last weekend's by-elections offered a...

The United States on Tuesday expressed "concern" over "growing tensions" in South Sudan, and called on all parties to respect...

Many residents of the Senegalese metropolis Dakar get up in the middle of the night hoping to collect water from...

President Kais Saied has condemned "illegal" meetings of Tunisia's parliament which he suspended last July, saying those responsible for the...

Ethiopia has declared a conditional truce, and their rebel opponents in Tigray have agreed to cease hostilities if certain terms...

A South African court on Friday delayed the trial of the man accused of burning down parliament in January, saying...

The death toll from twin attacks in central Somalia has climbed to 48, the leader of Hirshabelle state said Thursday,...

A Ugandan court has issued an arrest warrant for an award-winning author who fled the country after being charged with insulting...

The war in Yemen will enter its eighth year this week with civilian casualties on the rise and unstoppable inflation,...