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A 17-year-old girl, who handed herself in to South African police, is expected to appear in court, accused of killing a man who allegedly...

Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries.At 13.7...

Prime Minister Theresa May reappointed most of her ministers on Sunday but brought a Brexit campaigner and party rival into government to try to...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday accused James Comey of cowardice by leaking accounts of his meetings with the president, days after the ex-FBI...

Eleven people were killed when militants attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo and freed more than 900 inmates, officials say.The governor...

Guinean President Alpha Conde wrote to Saudi Arabia on Sunday offering to mediate in the crisis between Riyadh, its allies and the tiny nation...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has sacked the country's chief prosecutor, Johannes Tomana, after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and incompetence.Local media say...

US President Donald Trump says he is "100%" willing to speak under oath about his conversations with ex-FBI chief James Comey.Speaking at the White...

The UK looks set to have a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party, with most general election results now in.It means...

The Army General Court Martial in Borno State today sentenced a soldier, Lance Corporal Hillary Joel, to death for killing a suspected Boko Haram...

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has declined the invitation to the Extra-Ordinary summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trade bloc to be...

The UK looks set to have a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party, with most general election results now in.It means...

Ex-FBI chief James Comey told Congress that the Trump administration's comments about him and the FBI were "lies plain and simple". Mr Comey told a...

A police dog has been fired from his job because he did not have the intimidating personality needed to carry out his job effectively. 1-year-old...

Polling stations have opened for people to cast their vote in the UK general election.Polls opened at 07:00 BST at more than 40,000 polling...

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...