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Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan Olympian, has died in Kenya four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend, Ugandan…

Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan long-distance runner, was still fighting for her life on Wednesday after being set on fire by…

Inmates attempted to break out of a high-security prison in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, killing 129…

Contaminated water from a gold mine in Ivory Coast that leaked into a river from a cracked valve “slightly poisoned”…

The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged politicians in Nigeria to stop weaponising insecurity…

Civilians were among the dozens killed in an attack by jihadists in Burkina Faso, local and security sources told AFP…

No fewer than 20 civilians, including children, were killed on Sunday by drone strikes in north Mali, where the army…

A manhunt is underway in Kenya following the escape from a Nairobi police cell of a serial killer who allegedly…

The ECOWAS Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control reports that monkeypox (Mpox) is still spreading in the region, with…

The 11th Financial Times Africa Summit has been scheduled for October 29 at The Peninsula in London. The summit is…