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Kenya's electoral commission has denied opposition claims its IT system was hacked in order to manipulate Tuesday's election results. Chief electoral officer Ezra Chiloba told...

A New Jersey woman has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting her lesbian wife in the face at their home on Sunday. According to the New...

Nine people have been killed, including six tourists, and 164 injured in an earthquake that struck a remote and mountainous part of southwest China's...

Well-known for saying "President Robert Mugabe does not sleep, he only protects his aged eyes from the bright lights", presidential spokesperson George Charamba has...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected early results of a presidential election on Wednesday that showed he was losing to incumbent and long-time rival...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta maintained his strong lead in the presidential election count on Wednesday with 85 percent of polling stations reporting, the election...

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has survived an eighth vote of no confidence - despite the ballot being held in secret. Opposition parties had hoped...

Girls in an isolated Caribbean village become male and grow penises when they hit puberty due to a rare genetic disorder. It is estimated that...

Two days after a bomb attack on a mosque in Minnesota and President Donald Trump is yet to criticize the act against the Muslim...

Kenyans are awaiting their general election with a mixture of excitement and dread. Social media is buzzing with hopeful voters eager to shape their nation's future. But tens...

More than 220,000 people have signed a petition against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to create a formal First Lady role for his wife...

Nairobi newspaper Daily Nation is carrying articles written by incumbent President Uhura Kenyatta and challenger Raila Odinga, giving their final thoughts before the country...

A 29-year-old man has been reported to filming his fellow tenant’s wife while she was having her bath. The suspect, Abraham Matenda from Zimbabwe has been...

An entire town of 120 acres called 'NIPTON' has been bought by American Green Inc., a marijuana focused technology and growing company based in Arizona at...

A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant and has been refused an abortion is at the centre of a media storm in India. The BBC's...

A man murdered his wife before killing himself at their home with their three children inside, police say. The woman, 26, was "violently attacked" before...

Becoming a pilot is far from easy, but challenging gender stereotypes and becoming a female aviator is even harder.This didn't stop Indian pilot Anny...

A blustery morning as showers of rain fall on Durban’s Golden Mile. Surfers brace the waves oblivious of the stunned onlookers. Past the bustling...

A woman was shot in the vagina and left with “life changing injuries” in a sex game gone wrong, a court has heard. The 46-year-old...

It's not what most people expect to see when they're swiping through their selfies. At the Wilderness Festival near his Oxfordshire home this weekend, David...

At least eight people have been killed in a gun attack on a church in southern Nigeria, police say. Up to 18 other worshippers were...

A Nigerian lady, Ebisike Victoria Chinyere, took to Facebook to invite her friends to her own burial because she has no money to treat herself! The...

A Nigerian man is urging Christians especially his brother to stop worshipping Jesus Christ who is the son of God. According to Eziokwu Chineke Gadi,...

Former President John Mahama is urging political leaders in Kenya not to shed blood ahead of the upcoming elections scheduled for next Tuesday, August...

The Nigerian Army has appealed to religious, traditional and community leaders, as well as all well-meaning Nigerians especially in the North East of the...

"If I talked about it, I would have been separated from the people. Even those who treated me would not have shaken my hands." Stephen...

Nigerians speculating on when their ailing president will return from London are now being encouraged to put their money where their mouth is. Sports gaming...

The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over...

More than 50 women in the northern Indian states of Haryana and Rajasthan have reported that they have had their hair chopped off while...

Nigerians speculating on when their ailing president will return from London are now being encouraged to put their money where their mouth is. Sports gaming...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday got behind a bill to drastically cut legal immigration and replace current employment based visas with a point system. The...

The Gambian government has revoked the diplomatic passports of former president Yahya Jammeh and those of his family. Jammeh and his family are among the 207...

Nigeria's former President Goodluck Jonathan says that six televisions and three refrigerators were stolen from his home in Abuja - not 36 televisions and...

The Kenyan election official whose body was found earlier this week had been severely tortured and strangled to death, an autopsy has found. Chris Msando...

Members of National Association of Deaf and Dumb people, Imo state branch, have just stormed the state government house to protest along with their...

A newly-married woman, Kate Elizabeth Prichard threatened to kill her husband with a gun hours after the two got married. The 25-year-old bride was arrested...

A Kenyan University lecturer has been sentenced to death for murdering her husband in a row over family property. Sheila Wanjiku Kibinge, said to be...

The home of Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan in the capital, Abuja, has been “stripped bare” by burglars, according to a statement from his...

Kenya's president took to social media to proclaim he was "deeply shocked and saddened" by killing of a senior election official ahead of next...

The US government is not seeking a regime change in North Korea, the secretary of state says, amid tensions over Pyongyang's weapons programme. "We're not...