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Bald people have become the latest targets of witchdoctors in Mozambique, police chiefs say. Police say the body parts and heads of bald men are...

Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported.China said Zambia had provided insufficient evidence to justify the arrests.It said one...

One of Silicon Valley's top black female executives, Bozoma Saint John, has left tech giant Apple to join ride-hailing service Uber.Ms Saint John, who...

A 20-year-old US woman whose boyfriend took his own life nearly three years ago after she repeatedly urged him to suicide has gone on...

A professor has called for an end to the killing of mosquitoes, stating that they are friends and allies to humans and we could...

Zimbabwean police have cautioned unsuspecting men and the general public to be wary of a group of women accused of sexually assaulting men in...

Armed men launched two attacks in Iran on Wednesday morning, killing a guard at the parliament in central Tehran and wounding several people at...

South Africa has fallen into recession for the first time in eight years after economic growth shrank by 0.7% between January and March. The downturn,...

About thirty Cameroonian soldiers engaged in the fight against insurgent group, Boko Haram, have been arrested and sent to the capital, Yaounde.The Ministry of...

A man is set to be summoned to court in Saudi Arabia after his wife claimed he called her a 'cow' and a 'donkey'. The...

Over 130 imams from across the United Kingdom have said they will refuse to perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the London and...

The wife of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says he is recovering from his illness.Aisha Buhari has just returned from a trip to London where...

Over 130 imams from across the United Kingdom have said they will refuse to perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer for the London and...

The Islamic State militant group (IS) is fighting on many fronts against those seeking to defeat it. One of those fronts is a digital...

The diplomatic crisis unraveling in the Gulf region could revive a campaign by critics of Qatar to strip the country of the rights to...

The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five...

The biggest US tech firms are rallying behind the 2015 Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump's decision to leave it.Mr Trump's move has been...

Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has been named the new chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.He takes...

British Prime Minister Theresa May claimed there was "too much tolerance" of Islamist extremism in the UK as she vowed a clampdown in the...

South Africa's ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma's family and...

A 20 year old boy,  Ibrahim Aliyu Babatunde, who worked with others to kidnap his father has been arrested and paraded alongside others by the Oyo...

South Africa’s ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma’s family and...

The ex-wife of Liberia's former president has been charged with torture, the Metropolitan Police said.Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was married to Charles Taylor, is...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 93, has called on leaders vying to succeed him to keep their ambitions in check, saying their chance to lead...

Leo Varadkar has been announced as the leader of the biggest party in Ireland's ruling coalition, Fine Gael.Mr Varadkar beat his rival, Housing Minister...

At least 15 children have died in South Sudan from a botched attempt to immunise them against measles, officials say.They were vaccinated with the...

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people...

Ghana's former President John Mahama has called the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change...

Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya.The Kenyan MP from the...

Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change on Thursday afternoon – deriding it as bad for American...

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert this week after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger, the Red...

U.S. President Donald Trump sought to insert himself into congressional investigations on Russia on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to hear from one of his former...

Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early.President Uhuru Kenyatta said during...

A man who claimed he was missing his dead brother dug up his coffin and took him on a ride around town on his...

Saudi Arabia is to behead a deaf and visually impaired man to death for taking part in a protest, it has emerged. Disabled Munir Adam,...

US President Donald Trump called Germany's trade and spending policies "very bad" - intensifying a row between the longtime allies and immediately earning himself...

The decomposed body of a woman was discovered on Table Mountain in Cape Town on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police confirmed.Captain FC van Wyk...

One word was close to breaking the internet on Wednesday morning: "covfefe".It was an apparent typo in a tweet by US President Donald Trump,...

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died at the age of 83 following brain surgery this year.Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989,...