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In less than a year, a camp in northern Uganda has taken in more refugees than any other in the world, and all of...

A close friend of South Korea‘s former president has been jailed for three years for corruption. Choi Soon-sil’s conviction for soliciting favours for her daughter...

A sniper in the Canadian special forces shot and killed an Islamic State (IS) fighter from a distance of 2.1 miles (3,540m) in Iraq...

All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said.It is hoped the move will improve access to education in a...

EU citizens legally resident in the UK will be entitled to the same rights as British citizens after Brexit, the UK prime minister has...

South Africa’s highest court has ruled that a vote of no-confidence against President Jacob Zuma can be held in secret. The constitutional court said that...

So-called Islamic State (IS) has blown up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraqi forces say.The historic landmark was where IS leader Abu...

Luanda, the capital of Angola, has regained top spot as the world’s most expensive city for expats, pushing Hong Kong back into second place. The...

A call for South Africans to boycott social media for a day to protest against high data costs has ironically seen #SocialMediaBlackout trend.Musician and...

Veteran Nollywood actor and filmmaker,  Ramsey Noah, has revealed that his kids suffer a lot of backlash because of his profession as a movie...

The government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo has committed horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers' limbs...

Uber boss Travis Kalanick has resigned as chief executive after pressure from shareholders, according to media reports.Mr Kalanick will remain on the board of...

A Ghanaian who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of Massachusetts...

Instead of beating or handing over a thief to the police, Baptist church members in Warri, Delta state laid their hands on him and...

A 17-year-old teenager is now lying in critical condition at the Detroit Medical Center after he was believed to be attempting a holdup at...

More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region since last October, the Catholic Church...

The American student who was released last week after being held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died, his...

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee.The...

Up to half the food aid meant for people who have fled Nigeria's Islamist insurgency has reportedly not been delivered, the government says.It described...

The Customs and Excise Department of Malaysia on Thursday intercepted a shipment of pangolin scales from Ghana worth 5 million ringgit ($1.2 million) at...

The French government on Sunday evening voted a record number of 233 women into parliament, after President Emmanuel Macron's decision to field a gender-balanced...

A 77-year-old nun, dressed in her habit, has gone viral after she was filmed floating into a polling station on board a hover-board.The French...

Gunmen have stormed a tourist resort in Mali popular with Westerners and two people are dead, the country's security minister has said.Officials said "suspected...

More than ten pedestrians were hit by a white van driver who veered onto a pavement near a renowned north London mosque, in what...

This reportedly happened in a yet-to-be identified school in Lagos. A 12-year-old boy almost killed a classmate with acid because she surpassed his initial...

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh showed up at her son’s school dressed up as a man for father’s day celebration.Sharing photos and videos from the...

A US judge has declared a mistrial in the Bill Cosby sex assault case after the jury remained deadlocked for days.The seven men and...

A court in Cairo has recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the killing of Egypt's top public prosecutor.Hisham Barakat...

President Donald Trump has appeared to acknowledge he is under investigation in the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election. In a tweet,...

A man allegedly beat up his wife for denying him early morning sex.According to lawyer and human right activist, Emeka Ugwuonye, the woman refused...

The Queen and Prince William visited a relief centre for Grenfell Tower fire victims, while the missing could number as many as 76, the...

The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has hired a lawyer known for defending government officials in high-profile investigations to help him with probes into whether...

Ghanaian-Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly defrauding two clients by selling packaged rice to them as an iPhone.City News.ca reports that Andrew Boateng...

As fire crews attend a massive blaze at a block of flats in north Kensington, residents who made it safely out of the inferno...

A huge fire has engulfed a tower block in Latimer Road, west London, with eyewitnesses claiming people are trapped in their homes.The fire at...

Forty-eight Zambian MPs from the opposition UPND have been suspended for 30 days for boycotting President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation address. They refused...

A Pennsylvania father has been sentenced to a maximum of four years in state prison  for allowing his 13-year-old daughter to drink 17 shots...

A man accused of posting blasphemous content to Facebook has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan.Taimoor Raza was convicted after allegedly...

15 people are reported missing after a seven-storey building in Kenya’s capital Nairobi collapsed early Tuesday morning.The building located in Kware Pipeline, Embakasi in...