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General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's president, has confirmed the detention of an opposition leader's bodyguard, who has been...

Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has won the backing of key political allies to be declared president for the...

Cotonou — The Government of Benin has confirmed that 54 soldiers were killed in coordinated attacks by suspected jihadist militants...

Burkina Faso's military government has said it foiled a "major plot" to overthrow junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, with the...

Kenya's national high-school drama competition has been overshadowed by drama of its own after police fired tear gas to disperse...

Algeria and Mali have each closed their airspace to flights from the other country, as the row over a drone...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the US is immediately revoking visas issued to all South Sudanese...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced he will suspend tariffs on goods imported from the US in an attempt to...

Nigeria is facing an escalating political crisis after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich Rivers...

Dozens of bus passengers in Ethiopia have been abducted by armed men in the country's largest region, Oromia, as they...