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Lagos: Police fired teargas on Friday to disperse angry protesters in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, police and residents said, shutting businesses and blocking...

Conakry: Anti-junta protesters clashed with security forces in Guinea on Thursday, AFP journalists saw, with the country's main opposition coalition reporting "many arrests"...

Dakar: Police in Senegal smashed the window of a car in which a top opposition leader was sitting and forced him from the...

Nairobi: Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after weeks of deadly confrontations between rival followers of...

Nairobi: Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent "in another two weeks, tops” after months...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent "in another two weeks, tops” after...

Kano: The first time Atiku Abubakar ran for Nigeria's presidency, his country was still under military rule and Nelson Mandela was about to...

Geneva: Dozens of migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off Libya, with only seven survivors found so far, the United...

Dakar: Sahel countries need to do more to fight the trafficking of firearms, which largely originate from national stockpiles within Africa, the United...

Dakar: At least 32 civilians have been killed by rebel groups in eastern Congo's Ituri province, said a spokesman for the United Nations....

Bloomberg: Equatorial Guinea reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after an unknown illness causing hemorrhagic fever killed at least nine...

Dakar: The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible...

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea: Nine people have died in Equatorial Guinea from an "outbreak" of the Marburg virus, which causes a hemorrhagic fever nearly...

Nairobi: A Somali journalist said he had been freed from jail on Monday just hours after a court handed down a two-month sentence...

N'Djamena: Hundreds of alleged rebels accused of "assassinating" former president Idriss Deby Itno went on trial in a Chadian court on Monday, the...

Lagos: Appealing to Nigeria's youth to come out and vote, outsider candidate Peter Obi on Saturday rallied thousands of supporters in Lagos in...

Johannesburg: One of South Africa's hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern...

Lusaka: Eight Croatian nationals pleaded not guilty to new child trafficking charges in a Zambian court on Friday. The eight - four couples...