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Gambian ex-autocrat Yahya Jammeh’s palatial country residence, where he allegedly administered a self-invented Aids cure, has been partially “gutted by bushfire”, the West African state’s army said on Thursday. Located…

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Tunisia to bring home nearly 200 children of suspected jihadists stranded or held in crowded camps and prisons in Libya, Iraq and Syria.…

Algeria’s president pardoned almost 6 300 prisoners on Thursday, but scores detained as part of an anti-government protest movement will not benefit from the move, a support group said. The…

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday asked the International Criminal Court for his unconditional release following his acquittal last year over post-electoral violence that killed 3 000 people.…

At least 20 miners in Zimbabwe have been trapped underground after a shaft collapsed, state media reported on Thursday. The incident occurred overnight at the Globe and Phoenix gold mine…

Sudan’s cabinet said on Thursday that the country’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel’s prime minister of “normalising ties” between the two countries. Burhan, who…

Malawian President Peter Mutharika has slammed a decision by the Constitutional Court to annul his re-election but promised to run in a fresh ballot ordered by the judges. The southern…

Albert Kunyuku Ngoma was a young Congolese corporal in the colonial Belgian army when he was forced to battle in WWII as far away as Myanmar. Now 97, Ngoma is…

Washington – Kenya’s president said on Wednesday that African nations should be free to cooperate with both the United States and China, warning that foreign powers were exacerbating the continent’s…