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More than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, were massacred by Burkina Faso's military in a single day this...

Severe flooding has displaced hundreds of thousands of people across East Africa - and in Kenya rescue workers and authorities...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked his foreign affairs minister who had been in office for less than a...

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...