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The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has offered a paltry $1000 reward to whistleblowers who can offer information to arrest a Nigerian New Read more
French President Francois Hollande has given citizenship to 28 Africans who fought for France in World War Two and other conflicts. Mr Hollande said France Read more
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – Members of Egypt’s Christian minority flocked to church on Friday but two church bomb attacks on Palm Sunday that killed 45 people have Read more
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Three university engineering graduates in Uganda are taking on one of the leading killers of young children in Africa – pneumonia. They Read more
KINSHASA — Congolese authorities have arrested two people suspected of involvement in the murder of two U.N. workers in central Democratic Republic of Congo, but Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Rebels with the South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO), allied with rebel leader Riek Machar, on Friday attacked Raja Read more
Three men working as porters for the U.N.’s World Food Programme were killed in ethnic violence in South Sudan’s Wau city earlier this week, the Read more
Supermodel Maria Borges has tweeted that she is honoured to be the first African woman to feature on the cover of the American version of Read more
Close to 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said. Coastguard spokesman Read more
A profile of Lucy Gichuhi, the Kenya-born woman who is set to become a senator for the small Family First party in Australia, says she Read more
Another sacked South African Cabinet Minister, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, has resigned from his position as a Member of Parliament. Mr Ramatlhodi was Minister of Public Service Read more
Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with 227 new members, the Academy announced today. Read more
Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has been charged with treason, police said Wednesday, after he allegedly refused to give way to President Edgar Lungu’s motorcade Read more
Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected Islamic State militants in a shootout on Monday as they were meeting to plan attacks on minority Christians, the Read more
Niger security forces killed 57 members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram who attacked a village in the southeastern Diffa region overnight, the defence ministry Read more
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is reporting a disturbing new trend in people smuggling in Libya – migrants being bought and sold as slaves. Read more
At least 16 people were killed in the South Sudanese town of Wau on Monday, said the United Nations, as witnesses said ethnic militiamen went Read more
President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing forward with plans to sell up to a dozen aircraft and jets to Nigeria’s air force for the fight Read more
South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday described last week’s protests demanding that he resign as racist, as he fought back against the criticism that Read more
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — A Lebanese registered ship hijacked off the cast of war-torn Somalia has been freed, says a shipping expert. The pirates who boarded the Read more
The new Somali army chief, General Ahmed Mohamed Jimale Irfid, has survived a suicide car bomb attack that killed at least 15 people near his Read more
The fan favourite, Efe has won the grand finale of the Reality TV show, the Big Brother Nigeria, otherwise known as #BBNaija. He won with a Read more
Eritrea has once again found itself on the wrong side of international norms as a U.N. report accused the East African country of violating an Read more
PARIS – Kenya’s Paul Lonyangata won the Paris marathon, clocking two hours six minutes and 10 seconds over 42.195km on a bright morning on Sunday. Lonyangata Read more
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, who is due to visit Egypt this month, on Sunday condemned the blast that killed at least 21 people and Read more
South Africa’s tender for the estimated 1 trillion-rand ($72 billion) expansion of its nuclear power plants will begin in June when state utility Eskom requests Read more
Islamic State was responsible for two church bombings in Egypt on Sunday that killed at least 36 and injured over 100, the group’s news agency Read more
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita replaced his prime minister late on Saturday, naming the defense minister to head the government of the West African nation, Read more
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in Egypt. The attacks Read more
By Ahmed Tolba and Mohamed Abdellah | CAIRO At least 21 people were killed and 50 injured on Sunday when an explosion rocked a Coptic Read more
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