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Mali’s armed forces have killed 80 militants in response to a series of simultaneous and coordinated attacks on military posts...

Africa will be self-sufficient in fertiliser within 40 months, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said on Friday, on the basis of...

Burundi is urging the United Nations to officially recognize the mass killings of Hutus in 1972–1973 as a genocide, over...

The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a...

An explosion killed two suspected rebels including a female suicide bomber near a Roman Catholic shrine in Uganda's capital Kampala...

The official death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than...

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose sharp criticisms of post-independence elites led to his jailing and two...

Mozambique is demanding the return of at least 800 artefacts looted during the colonial period, joining a broader African movement...

A top court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon to 10 years...

The Beninese government has announced that judicial proceedings will be launched against two senior officials and their accomplices, following revelations...