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President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria has been re-elected with almost 95 percent of the vote, the country’s electoral authority ANIE…

Foremost Professor of Political Science, Bolaji Akinyemi, has cautioned President Bola Tinubu’s administration to be careful with Nigerian-Chinese deals. Akinyemi,…

No fewer than 17 children died after a fire ripped through their primary school dormitory overnight in central Kenya, police…

Burkina Faso has introduced a new biometric passport without the logo of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),…

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…