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Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone have become the latest African countries to join the world's first routine malaria vaccine programme...

Fishmongers in Egypt say they have been forced to slash their prices by up to 50% because of a boycott...

Two men have been charged with immigration offences after an investigation into the deaths of five migrants, including a child,...

More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a jail near Nigeria's capital after heavy rain damaged part of the facility...

German police have arrested 11 Nigerian men suspected of being in a mafia group who orchestrated large-scale dating scams. The...

A lecturer at one of Nigeria's leading universities - the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) - has been suspended following...

Sixteen would-be migrants have died and another 28 are missing after a boat carrying 77 people capsized off the coast...

A Chinese-owned supermarket in Nigeria's capital has been shut by the authorities over allegations that it denies entry to African...

South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) has lost a legal bid to stop a new party from using the name...

Under the beaming lights of New York's iconic Times Square, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya is attempting an ambitious challenge...