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World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been nominated for a second term by its executive board....

Uganda’s military spy chief Maj Gen Abel Kandiho has been removed from his position weeks after the US imposed financial...

Denmark said on Tuesday its troops deployed to Mali as part of a French-led counter-terrorism task force were there on...

Two Senegalese soldiers were killed and nine were likely taken hostage when they went missing during fighting with separatist rebels...

Mali's transitional government asked Denmark on Monday to withdraw "immediately" the hundred or so soldiers who recently arrived in the...

A World Health Organization (WHO) official cut off Ethiopia’s envoy on Monday as he attempted to deliver a speech criticising...

Mozambique military forces say they have captured a terrorist leader, a Tanzanian citizen, in Nangade district in the northern Cabo...

Ethiopia’s foreign ministry has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate its leader for supporting rebellious forces fighting...

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has temporarily suspended its flights, a spokesperson said. “MINUSMA has to temporarily...

Nigeria has lifted its ban on Twitter - seven months after clamping down on the social networking site. Nigeria's government...