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Officers said the operation began after witnesses sighted the two men said to be responsible for the attack [AFP] French media reports that both brothers...

President Goodluck Jonathan flag-off his presidential campaign at Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday 8th of January, 2015 with immense crowd present. PDP chieftain across the...

United Nations peacekeepers and the Congolese military are preparing to launch operations against the Rwandan Hutu rebel group, the FDLR, based in the eastern Democratic...

Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the...

Settlement avoids London High Court case and will be split with £35m paid directly to affected individuals and £20m for the Bodo community A Shell...

A MONUSCO attack helicopter provides aerial protection for a convoy carrying FDLR ex-combatants from Kanyabayonga transit camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Photo: MONUSCO/Force...

By Matthew Hill Zambia’s presidential candidate for the main opposition party, Nevers Mumba, said he will review a plan to impose mining royalties if he...

Spate of attacks has stoked concerns about growth of white racism Archbishop Desmond Tutu: said recently it felt like the dark days of apartheid had...

Kris Jepson Kris Jepson is an investgative reporter for Al Jazeera English, based in London. Ahead of us blue flashing lights, a rudimentary police cordon...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight...

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The small West African nation of Gambia, has had a military coup aborted. The coup bid was foiled early Tuesday, while President Yahya Jammeh was...

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search on Tuesday for...

Cameroon’s government said Monday that it had begun airstrikes against Nigerian Islamic extremists to dislodge about 1,000 fighters who seized the Achigachia military base on...

A barge carrying a shipment of food destined for thousands of people in South Sudan has crossed over from neighbouring Sudan, reopening a long-closed river...

  By Dr Mohamed Kirat Four years ago, the death of a young street vendor sparked a popular uprising that ousted Tunisia’s dictator, Zine El...

  A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, who had a $3 million US bounty on his head, surrendered in Somalia, a Somali intelligence official...

Photographer: Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images President Goodluck Jonathan’s attempt to end the subsidies in January 2012 sparked a… The tumbling oil prices that have...

Nigeria police arrest 13-year-old after she leaves suicide vest in taxi unwilling to become Boko Haram’s suicide bomber. A 13-year-old says her father gave her...