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Armed men affiliated with Ethiopia's rebel Oromo Liberation Army have been blamed for kidnapping more than a dozen staff working...

San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill. The measure...

Outrage is growing in Nigeria after a university student was arrested and charged with defaming President Muhammadu Buhari's wife on...

The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has announced the death of its leader, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi. An audio message...

A court in Nigeria has sentenced the police chief to three months in prison for disobeying an earlier order to...

The family of a Nigerian university student who has been allegedly detained by security services based at the presidency and...

Ethiopia’s government has dashed any hopes of peace talks with rebels in the restive Oromia region. Expectations had been raised...

Angola's Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo...

A landslide in Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé, has killed at least 14 people, the authorities have said. Those who died had...

A court in Comoros has handed down a life sentence for high treason to former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi. He...