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The US has insisted it will leave the Paris climate accord, despite reports that it may be softening its stance. Following a meeting of environment...

The US is considering closing its embassy in Cuba after diplomatic staff reported health problems which Washington blames on a "sonic attack".Secretary of State...

The hideous and grotesque look of Benita Okereke has not made her warm disposition grow cold and hard. Rather she remains optimistic that God...

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

A 17-year-old boy with albinism has been found with his brain missing after he was brutally murdered in Mozambique.A local resident in Tete in...

Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos.The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at...

Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population."Congratulations...

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a 20 -year -old housewife , Aisha Isah , for allegedly throwing her two stepdaughters , Zainab...

A 37-year-old HIV positive man from Uganda was arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter.Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing...

A young girl detonated a suicide bomb in a mosque in northern Cameroon early Wednesday, killing at least five worshippers and wounding others.The girl,...

A young Nigerian girl has been arrested by the police for allegedly possessing human heads.The suspect, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, Igbo state was  apprehended...

We reported earlier about the more than 100 young women who were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria in 2014, who will now be...

The United States has reportedly queried the inclusion of President Robert Mugabe's family on his entourage of more than 70 people to the United...

A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in the main commercial hub in Nigeria’s south-eastern Abia state following clashes between the military and activists campaigning...

One of Africa's most prestigious universities is investigating how 300 students managed to get their degree results changed.Uganda's Makerere University discovered that the students'...

Eight people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died.Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has stated clearly that he cannot assent to an execution of the death penalty which is legal in the East...

North Korea has threatened the United States with the "greatest pain" it has ever suffered following new sanctions imposed by the United Nations.Pyongyang's envoy...

Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a...

Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press...

A boy and his parents have died after falling into a volcanic crater at Solfatara near Naples.What happened is still unclear, but Italian reports...

China and Russia have joined a unanimous UN vote to impose new sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test.The council...

Landholders and ecologists in Australia are warning wild kangaroo levels have become unsustainable, urging Australians to eat more kangaroo meat. Government figures show there were almost 45...

TweetAt least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources...

Kenyatta threatens to remove Odinga if opposition wins re-runKenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in...

No fewer than 45,000 Zulu maidens participated in the Annual Reed Dance, known as Umkhosi Womhlanga in Zulu Kingdom, South Africa, after going through...

Three men are being held by the police in Akure, Ondo State capital for the murder of three female students of Adeyemi College of...

At least 80 opposition protesters have been arrested after two days of demonstration demanding the departure of President Faure Gnassingbe.According to the Civil Service...

“I believe whatever he (Faure Gnassingbe) has to do in terms of development, whatever ideas he has, he must have exhausted them by now,...

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party’s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold,...

In October 2014, Nigeria received universal praise for its swift and efficient tackling of the Ebola pandemic which had struck West African neighbours Sierra...

Tanzania’s mining industry will come under the spotlight today as two parliamentary committees are presenting reports to President John Magufuli, after investigating diamond and...

Chicago's Mayor has declared the city a "Trump-free zone", after the US president ended protection for the children of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers".Introduced...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who...

A pastor has developed an innovative way for his church members to effectively pay their tithe.This, according to Malawain pastor, Prophet Bushiri is to...

Opposition political parties in Togo are urging the Government of Ghana and those of other West African countries to intervene in ongoing political tension...

There was drama in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa when two suspected car thieves, one of them with a snake around his neck, walked...

Five nurses at the Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after they admired a man’s genitals, both while he was incapacitated...

The October 17 presidential election ordered by the Supreme Court could cost at least Sh10 billion, an analysis of previous Budget estimates shows.This will...