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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...

South Africa's unemployment rate rose in the first quarter of this year, with statisticians fretting that increasing numbers of people...

More than 100 people have died after flooding in a village near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in eastern Democratic...

The World Bank has disbursed additional funds to Nigeria under the $800m National Social Safety Net Programme-Scale Up, raising the...