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The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said it was “encouraged” by an improvement in the Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo but urged caution. The WHO’s Emergency Committee…

Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir spent a decade flouting international arrest warrants on war crimes charges, travelling overseas in open defiance of the International Criminal Court. But after mass protests brought an…

Mangina, a town of some 72 000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile east, was eerily empty on Tuesday after a massacre last week by a dreaded rebel group…

Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member of Khartoum’s ruling body said Tuesday.…

Thousands of Kenyans on Tuesday gathered to mourn the country’s longest-serving leader, the hardline Daniel Arap Moi, as a week of mourning climaxed with a state funeral. Moi, whose 24-year…

African Union leaders on Monday vowed to push peace efforts in Libya, a sign of the bloc’s desire to play a bigger role in resolving the continent’s conflicts. The AU…

Murder, mystery, suspense and political drama – the cocktail of events playing out in Lesotho belong in a best-selling thriller. But it is the lived reality of a small southern…

Malian troops have begun deploying to the key northern town of Kidal, a senior army official said on Monday, returning to an area that has long been a symbol of…

The playboy son of Equatorial Guinea’s leader was handed a €30 million fine by a Paris court on Monday on top of a suspended jail term and the confiscation of…