An Egyptian court called on Sunday for a legal amendment to allow the live broadcast of the execution of the killer of a female student, as a deterrent to frequent homicides.

The Malian army have said it had thwarted a new attack on a military camp in the centre of the country, two days after a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the capital.

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One of Kenya's two leading presidential candidates, Raila Odinga, will not take part in an upcoming electoral debate, his campaign team said Sunday, accusing his principal rival of trying to avoid certain topics such as corruption.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa signed six agreements with his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara, he cautioned against Africa's reliance on European countries for essential food commodities.

Reuben E Brigety II has been announced as the new US ambassador to South Africa.

Different spheres of government in Nigeria are failing to invest in the youth which creates fertile ground for criminal or violent armed groups to exploit vulnerable and susceptible youngsters to join their cause, argues Jaynisha Patel and Emmanuel B...

At least nine people were killed overnight Thursday-Friday in heavy clashes between militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli, emergency services said.

Police in Kenya have arrested three contractors working for the electoral commission when they landed at the country's main airport in Nairobi.

The Russian paramilitary outfit, the Wagner Group, has emerged as a destabilising force in many democracies across the world, but a majority of them are found in Africa.

Flooding and landslips during Niger's rainy season have so far left 15 people dead and affected more than 23 000 others, the civil protection services said on Thursday.

After the 27 February UN General Assembly vote on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which tested Africa's political and military alliances, US President Joe Biden will in December meet some of the African leaders, who chose to abstain from voting, in per...

The majority of African economies (83%) rely on commodities – mainly cocoa, copper, gold, and oil – leaving them vulnerable to shocks such as pandemics and wars.

Lesotho says it will hold general elections on 7 October, in the latest round of polling in the landlocked southern African country.

South Africa has joined 10 African countries meeting at the African Union summit in Lusaka, Zambia, in pledging their support to the Education Plus initiative.

The United States killed two al-Shabaab miltants in an airstrike on Sunday, the US Africa Command's public affairs section has said in a statement.

Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian authorities to probe the death of seven young men in the country's restive southeast, where separatist tensions are on the rise.

A Catholic priest seized last week in northwestern Nigeria was killed by his abductors while another kidnapped priest escaped, a Christian leader said on Wednesday.

Precious gem producer Gemfields on Wednesday reported an attack close to its ruby mine in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, but said operations had not been halted.

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